Sisters Of The Cross

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Elton John Songs Illustrated

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Sisters Of The Cross

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1971

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The old gates are always locked

By the daughter of the keys

Sad eyes are fixed on the world

From the balcony

While the six o'clock procession

Take their prayer books to the hall

It's sad to see them shed a tear

Inside the convent walls

 

Red mountains around them

Keep out those who'd come

But only birds and wild deer

Share the lives of nuns

For ladies who in kindness

Burn the knowledge they have found

Their knowledge lies inside a hole

Buried in the ground

 

For the Sisters of the Cross

Seek the shadows that they have lost

In the walls where their lives

Are protected by God

But the feeling of love

Is somehwere in your bones

Your body is wasted

When it should have been owned

 

The Mother of the mission bells

Has lived here all her life

She never felt the hands of man

Touch her in the night

And the canopies that cover her

So cold and so afraid

Thinking holy mothers die

Like spinsters in the grave

 

To be single in the chapel

Praying knelt down on your knees

Where the corridors are echoing

Their proud solemnity

And the candle light against the glass

Plays shadow chasing tricks

As the young girls fall, their eyes in tears

Beside the crucifix

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