Top Songs By Drive-By Truckers
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Drive-By Truckers
Performer
Mike Mills
Background Vocals
Patterson Hood
Background Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mike Cooley
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
David Barbe
Producer
Lyrics
An uncontrollable child, given to fantasy
A leaded lobotomy left Maria wild
With a mob in her head holding Magdalene's down in asylums
Ghost-written pornography
Tailored to readers in need of a righteous excuse to indulge
Maria's awful disclosures
Born of illicit liaisons
The babies of the Hôtel-Dieu convent weren't meant to survive
Baptized, then strangled, then buried mass infanticide
Something worse done to something more innocent's consistent presence
Alongside the tales of the times
The monks of the presence connection to Maria's mind
If some know nothing, nothing's keeping some from knowing it all
What nobody saw is anybody's call
Predispositions turn spaces in men
Into thirsty pages for a hell-bent pen
Professional victims with recycled lies
Stoking satanic panic in fear addled minds
Maria's awful disclosures
Ghost-written pornography tailored to readers
In need of a righteous excuse to indulge
Maria's awful disclosures
Writer(s): John Cooley (1)
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