Saint Agnes is the patron saint of girls, virgins, rape victims, chastity, engaged couples, and gardeners. The Pleasure Then: Ridley Bishop (instruments) & Matthew Budden (vocal). Words: Budden. Music: Budden/Bishop. Recorded by Ridley Bishop, Fall 2013, Vancouver, Canada. Lyrics: Nightbird sings to some churchyard things, "creepy, creepy". Crowning moon, she says, "Queen me soon. Keep me. Keep me safe from the terror of violation by aliens and thieves, who glide down a rope from a telescope, and, oh, how they deceive, the girls upon St. Agnes' Eve." Talk all day, you're still a song away from singing. Singing your secret name. It will part any flame from clinging. Clinging on to your boney bright limbs, like candlesticks ignite a lovesick rite, where the violent hand of everyman longs only to retrieve his sword upon St. Agnes' Eve. So picture yourself inside a flame holding a baby with your name who is who you are, and not became. *** Info on St. Agnes of Rome and St. Agnes' Eve (night of January 20th): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome

• published: 10 Dec 2013
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