Intro: Verse He wants to be Christlike, never be jealous So he lets her go on about the other fellas But the animal in him awakes with a growl And a skin 'em cannibal scowl Skin 'em cannibal scowl___ Verse And a swing from the trees with his teeth like a chainsaw Come near me I'll rake off your face with one paw___ Watch me now, I'm beating my chest like a robber Who steals from my meat as I rend and slobber Verse He sits in the plaza in tunic and sandals Watching her bent over buying the candles And he thinks he'd like to take her from behind Would the Scribes and the Pharisees mind? Scribes and the Pharisees mind___ Verse A woman approached me all bent and repentant I blessed her and sent her wherever she went___ Will these followers ever stop dogging me now That I've thrown off this stone and got loose somehow? Verse A life that you try to put into a grave Comes back every Easter to haunt you and save But my nature is wounded and bloodied and hung From a cross for my sins and the sins of everyone Oh, those sins of everyone___ Verse I'm jealous, goddamn it, I'm Christ and I'm jealous And angry and sad and, oh father, please tell us I'm human and god and I'm animal too As I listen to her going on about you Outro:
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