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, the stink of human sin
The stink Is more that I can bear"
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh, oh
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 corruption, the stench of human corruption
Into an oven she did crawl
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh, oh
Christina the Astonishing behaved in a terrifying way
She would run wildly through the streets Jump in the Meuse and swim away
Christina the Astonishing behaved in terrifying manner
She died at the age of seventy-four, died at the age of seventy-four
In the convent of St Anna
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh oh, oh