Dime Store Mystery

[Verse 1]
He was lying banged and battered, skewered and bleeding, talking crippled on the Cross
Was his mind reeling and heaving, hallucinating, fleeing - what a loss
The things he hadn't touched or kissed his senses slowly stripped away
Not like Buddha, not like Vishnu, life wouldn't rise through him again
I find it easy to believe that he might question his beliefs
The beginning of the Last Temptation, Dime Story Mystery

[Verse 2]
The duality of nature, Godly nature, human nature splits the soul
Fully human, fully divine and divided, the great immortal soul
Split into pieces, whirling pieces, opposites attract
From the front, the side, the back, the mind itself attacks
I know this feeling, I know it from before
Descartes through Hegel belief is never sure
Dime Store Mystery, Last Temptation

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
I was sitting, drumming, thinking, thumping, pondering the Mysteries of Life
Outside the city shrieking, screaming, whispering, the Mysteries of Life
There's a funeral tomorrow at St. Patrick's, the bells will ring for you
Ah, what must you have been thinking when you realized the time had come for you
I wish I hadn't thrown away my time on so much Human and so much less Divine
The end of the Last Temptation, the end of a Dime Store Mystery