OK, all you Rockers! Now for something slightly different on MCS.
Whatever your other musical proclivities, I hope you enjoy this.
A little background: In certain spiritual traditions, God is referred to as the Beloved, the Lover, the Goddess, and so on. Life is sometimes referred to as a tavern, and the heart as a mirror, into which one is forced to look closely.
Donna
Music/Arrangement/Instrumentals: Billy Playle
Vocals: Monique French
Lyrics: Donna Devine
Every So Often the Goddess (v1)
Every so often the Goddess
Storms into a tavern of drunks
Who are quietly nursing a grievance
All muttering into their cups
Exchanging complaints about how bad life feels
Choking on dry bones of long-ago meals
Chorus
Look now, she's carrying scissors
And spreading her sewing things round
She intends to embroider each of you dears
To the hem of her long, holy gown
(v2)
Every so often the Goddess
Kicks over the tavern's bar stools
Smiles at the wild scrambling
Of a room full of jesters and fools
She locks the windows and doors to the halls
Forcing everyone to face bright mirrored walls
Bridge
So loosen up darlings
Relax, keep your heads
Because if She can't pull you
Like smooth silken threads
Through the eye of her needle
She'll drag by the hair
And kicking and screaming
You'll all be stitched there
Skilfully knotted and lovingly bound
Fixed to the hem of her long, holy gown
Chorus
Look now, she's carrying scissors
And spreading her sewing things round
She intends to embroider each of you dears
To the hem of her long, holy gown
Repeat chorus
Outro
Every so often the Goddess
Bursts into the tavern at night
Why not rush from your bar stools in welcome
And leap through the needle's eye...
�2009 Donna Devine
