18 Bullet Holes

18 bullet holes in the body of a priest

They say he was eating a hot dog when the ammunition wasreleased.

They say he was always fat and lazy but he was an awfully niceguy.

That's just one more death to show you you never know when you'regonna die.

You might be facing the beast

Sometimes, God, I feel like I'm living in a bone grinding mill

And every time I hear the sound I can barely stand still

It's a thing I can't quite make out sometimes but it seems tokeep getting louder-

One more body from the valley of the dry bones getting ground upinto powder

Against Your holy will

Oh, God, it hurts so bad to love anybody down here

Why don't You come and help me out?

Cause I can't even see clear

The funny thing about the way a girl gets destroyed

About the way that deal goes down

Is that everybody pretty much sees it coming at the sister

From all the way across town

And she isn't always blinded, she isn't always far astray

She just might not be thinking, she might be having a bad day

But when you choose, you choose, and when you drown, you drown

Last night I dreamed that You swallowed me into Yourself

And I was floating on the sea inside

When I landed on the shore, I saw all these people that I thoughthad died

I hadn't seen some of them for ages

They had left without a single word

And when I said something to them, not a single one of them hadheard

They were all looking right through everything like it wasn'teven there

Some were full of anger, some full of fear

And then I recognized that something very sad

But very beautiful was happening right here

They were all caught outside standing alone in a very heavyrain

And when a raindrop landed on my tongue

I didn't need You to explain

That these were Your tears

Oh, God, it hurts so bad to love anybody down here

Oh, that's right, You know so well

One thorny crown, three nails, and a spear

One thorny crown, three nails, and a spear