--------------------------------------------------------------------------------  (l,m) Nick Cave  (p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   < Nick Cave: vocals, organ; Mick Harvey: rhythm guitar, vibes,   percussion; Blixa Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano;   Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: drums, congas;   The Bad Seeds: backing vocals;   Mick Harvey & David Blumberg: string arrangements;   Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara Porter: violins >   ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] )  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Christina the Astonishing  Lived a long time ago  SHe was stricken with a seizure  At the age of twenty-two  They took her body in a coffin  To a tiny church in Liege  Where she sprang up from the coffin  Just after the Agnus Dei  She soared up to the rafters  Perched on a beam up there  Cried "The stink of human sin  Is more that I can bear"  Christina the Astonishing  Was the most astonishing of all  She prayed balanced on a hurdle  Or curled up into a ball  She fled to remote places  Climbed towers and trees and walls  To escape the stench of human corruption  Into an oven she did crawl  O Christina the Astonishing  Behaved in a terrifying way  She would run wildly through the streets  Jump in the Meusse and swim away  O Christina the Astonishing  Behaved in terrifying manner  Died at the age of seventy-four  In the convent of St Anna  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------