Hymns for the Heathen

Night has draped its cape of stars Over our small town From the campus and the tavern To the chapel and infirmary We've seen their dreams We've found the goods The fables and folly Of the residents residing in... 14 hymns for the heathen First hymn, the son of God complex Second hymn, the prodigal damsel Third hymn, the tree stump of knowledge Choking on Adam's apple This I'd learn under the cross This broken promised land Of dreamers and steamers And preachers and predators They shall not want What they've got coming to them Whether innocent or insolent 14 hymns for the heathen Fourth hymn, the pa*sion of the Chaplin Fifth hymn, the brute kiss of Judas Sixth hymn, this autumn falls to ashes Seventh hymn, the church of (???) Eighth hymn, the horrors of the Apocalypse Ninth hymn, immaculate exception Tenth hymn, the demons of Mary Magdalene I am a chapel, this is prayer book, these are the parables God forgive us, this is our business, I shall be sent to all these heathens Eleventh hymn, the Bible Belt tightens Twelfth hymn, a leacherous Shepard Thirteenth hymn, hiding in confession Fourteenth hymn, an afterword (???), cheers of disenchantment Green gra*s of envy and malice On sour days, living in Happy Hollow