Jubilee

Текст песни 10000 Maniacs - Jubilee <br/> He fills the flower vases, trims the candle bases, takes small change<br />From<br />The poor box. Tyler has the key. He takes nail and hammer to tack up<br />The<br />Banner of felt scraps glued together reading, "Jesus Lives In Me."<br />Alone in<br />The night he mocks the words of the preacher: "God is feeling your<br />Every pain."<br />( )<br />Repair the Christmas stable, restore the plaster angel. Her lips begin<br />To<br />Crumble and her robes begin to peel. For Bible study in the church<br />Basement,<br />Hear children Gospel citing, Matthew 17:15. Alone in the night he<br />Mocks the<br />Arms of the preacher raised to the ceiling, "Tell God your pain."<br />To him the world's defiled. In Lot he sees a likeness there; he swears<br />This<br />Sodom will burn down. Near Sacred Blood there's a dance hall where<br />Tyler Glen<br />Saw a black girl and a white boy kissing shamelessly. Black hands on<br />White<br />Shoulders, white hands on black shoulders, dancing, and you know<br />What's more.<br />He's God's mad disciple, a righteous title, for the Word he heard he<br />So<br />Misunderstood. Though simple minded, a crippled man, to know this man<br />Is to<br />Fear this man, to shake when he comes. Wasn't it God that let Puritans<br />In<br />Salem do what they did to the unfaithful?<br />Boys at the Jubilee slowly sink into brown bag whiskey drinking and<br />Reeling<br />On their feet. Girls at the Jubilee in low-cut dresses yield to the<br />Caresses<br />And the man-handling. Black hands on white shoulders, white hands on<br />Black<br />Shoulders, dancing, and you know what's more.<br />Through the tall blades of grass he heads for the Jubilee with a<br />Bucket in<br />His right hand full of rags soaked in gasoline. He lifts the shingles<br />In the<br />Dark and slips the rags there underneath. He strikes a matchstick on<br />The box<br />Side and watches the rags ignite. He climbs the bell tower of the<br />Sacred<br />Blood to watch the flames rising higher toward the trees. Sirens<br />Wailing now<br />Toward the scene.