Dime Store Mystery

<br>He was lying banged and battered, skewered and bleeding<br><br>Talking crippled on the cross<br><br>Was his mind reeling and heaving hallucinating<br><br>Fleeing what a loss<br><br><br><br>The things he hadnt touched or kissed his senses<br><br>Slowly stripped away<br><br>Not like buddha not like vishnu<br><br>Life wouldnt rise through him again<br><br><br><br>I find it easy to believe<br><br>That he might question his beliefs<br><br>The beginning of the last temptation<br><br>Dime story mystery<br><br><br><br>The duality of nature, godly nature,<br><br>Human nature splits the soul<br><br>Fully human, fully divine and divided<br><br>The great immortal soul<br><br><br><br>Split into pieces, whirling pieces, opposites<br><br>Attract<br><br>From the front, the side, the back<br><br>The mind itself attacks<br><br><br><br>I know the feeling, I know it from before<br><br>Descartes through hegel belief is never sure<br><br>Dime store mystery, last temptation<br><br><br><br>I was sitting drumming thinking thumping pondering<br><br>The mysteries of life<br><br>Outside the city shrieking screaming whispering<br><br>The mysteries of life<br><br><br><br>Theres a funeral tomorrow<br><br>At st. patricks the bells will ring for you<br><br>Ah, what must you have been thinking<br><br>When you realized the time had come for you<br><br><br><br>I wish I hadnt thrown away my time<br><br>On so much human and so much less divine<br><br>The end of the last temptation<br><br>The end of a dime store mystery