Sweet Mother Of God

The Swirling Eddies * Track #6 On Zoom Daddy

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The Swirling Eddies

1994

Sweet Mother Of God by The Swirling Eddies

Performed by

The Swirling Eddies

Produced by

Terry Scott Taylor

Writed by

Terry Scott Taylor & David Raven & Tim Chandler

About

Terry Taylor, the lead singer of Daniel Amos and the Swirling Eddies, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Most Protestants–particularly the fundamentalists and evangelicals who made up most of his audience in the 1970s and 1980s–do not revere the Vir...

Sweet Mother Of God Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Regal dream and prim madonna
Angel queen of Tijuana
Mother earth and virgin saint
Succor, nurse, and suffrir gate
Gaudy beauty's hocus-pocus
Guadalupe's theotokos
For heathens, scribes, enraptured daughters
A neon bride on dashboard altars

[Chorus]
(Sweet mother of God)
What's got into you, boy?
(Oh, for the love of God)
What's got into you, boy?
(Sweet mother of God)
You ponder, you wander, you cling, and you lean
While she's bruising you, using you, seldom refusing you

[Verse 2]
Monumental apparition
Ornamental grave beautician
Satirized and patronized
Undersized and glamorized
Matriarchal wisdom seat
Sentimental Paraclete
Statuesque forlorn pieta
Eskewed, suppressed, and scorned contessa

[Chorus]
(Sweet mother of God)
What's got into you, boy?
(Oh, for the love of God)
What's got into you, boy?
(Sweet mother of God)
You ponder, you wander, you cling, and you lean
While she's bruising you, using you, seldom refusing you

[Bridge]
Cosa Nostra placebo
Glorisa domino
Mediatrix bella donna
Dominicus della strada

[Verse 3]
Limbo low e' la cañada
Tuck and roll lobla limbada
Co-redemptrix mediation
Genuflexix obligation
Latria et fatima
Oblida basilica
Gratia plena benedicta
Adolescentia byzantina

[Chorus]
(Sweet mother of God)
What's got into you, boy?
(Oh, for the love of God)
What's got into you, boy?
(Sweet mother of God)
You ponder, you wander, you cling, and you lean
While she's bruising you, using you, seldom refusing you

[Outro]
Isn't it wild? Mother and child
Meek and the mild, never defiled
Fruit of the womb, out of the tomb
Bride and the groom, sun and the moon
Altar queen wonder, suffering lover
Covering buffer, hovering mother
Blessing and testing, confessing and pressing
Inerrant, transparent, domestic, majestic
(Sweet mother of God)
Idyllic, angelic, filling, dispelling
Foretelling, compelling, instilling, indwelling
(Oh, for the love of God)
Favoring, laboring, savoring, flavoring
Healing us, sealing us, stealing us, leading us
(Sweet mother of God)
Ponder her, honor her, magistrate, venerate
Bond to her, long for her, sing to her, cling to her
And I'm not so sure that anything's wrong with her

Sweet Mother Of God Q&A

Who wrote Sweet Mother Of God's ?

Sweet Mother Of God was written by Terry Scott Taylor & David Raven & Tim Chandler.