There was a little place in a pretty row
Where we mostly did not go
And next to the place in a field of trees
Were stones stacked on stones for ten centuries
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
One time in the field in the middle of the night
An old God shambled beneath the sodium light
And the whole town gathered at the fence
With looks on their faces worse than grief itself
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Now then, a girl across the street with long dark hair
Knelt among the stones and the mystical flare
And the old God drew her into him like a flame
And I've never seen you so beautiful as that again
Chorus:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
I never ever saw you so beautiful as that again
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
I've never ever seen you so beautiful as that again
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
I never ever really ever saw you so beautiful again
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
Not like that again, not that again!
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
These voices they never ever stopped again
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
They never stopped again! I was touched by the flame!
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
I never really ever hurt again! Never hurt again!
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
Not even by ordinary pain! Not even by ordinary pain!
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
I never ever really hurt again!
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
Oh, hurt again! Oh, hurt again!
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
You're beautiful! You're beautiful, again! You're beautiful!
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
You're beautiful! You're beautiful! You're beautiful!
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
You're beautiful! You're beautiful! Beautiful
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
You're beautiful again!
(Touched by the spirit and touched by the flame)
Again Oh, touched by the flame