The Priest's Wife

Steve Kilbey/Gareth Koch

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Lyrics (unofficial)

In the afternoon
By the wild sea
By the stunted olive tree
The priest's wife in supplication kneels
Gardens surround her heels
And the sky god feels like crying

And our prayers remain ignored
Our prayers remain ignored

Her father was a fisherman
Her mother a priestess
She walked all the way
To meditate and pray
And through the clouds confessed

In the east there is a garden
There a flower grows
And if you could but pluck it
And hold it to your nose
Well that's the smell of heaven
Where the righteous priest goes

Behind the golden door
Ritual is established
The words are spoken backwards
[some backwards words]

She changed into a bird
Who flies into the sunrise
Underneath the Gotha [2:43] deserts
Above her are the planets
They all fortell a future
That stretches on forever
They all fortell a future
That stretches out forever (forever)