A Serpent in the Pulpit - Attic

The morning bell was chiming through the dormitory

Time for the nuns to pray the lauds

Joan’s bed still empty

She ran away, trying to break free

The sisters gathered in the chapel

They felt something was wrong

With empty eyes Margaret bowed her head

«There was an accident,» she said

But she was telling lies

Alice saw it in her eyes

Brazen lies without devout disguise

Abbess Margaret is a serpent in the pulpit

Spreading her evil sway

Abbess Margaret is a serpent in the pulpit

Bow to her morbid obsession with sin!

Margaret:

«There's work to do in the churchyard

Put sister Joan to rest!

Right where the bare headstone stands

Even she died by her own hands»

Oh she was telling lies

Alice saw it in her eyes

Brazen lies behind devout disguise

Abbess Margaret is a serpent in the pulpit

Spreading her evil sway

Abbess Margaret is a serpent in the pulpit

Bow to her morbid obsession with sin!

All the sisters:

Now earth to earth in convent walls, to earth in churchyard sod

You were not good enough for men and so you’re given to God!

…and so you’re given to God"

Lies…

Brazen lies behind devout disguise

Abbess Margaret is a serpent in the pulpit

Spreading her evil sway

Abbess Margaret is a serpent in the pulpit

Bow to her morbid obsession with sin!