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Sign of the Crow (Part 2) Lyrics
These roses are the pleasures of the flesh
These ones here they are the pleasures of the spirit
And tucked behind a pornographic picture in a frame
The troops found the pierced heart and they all gathered near it
And the dust clouds bloomed in the dark
And the face gazed up from the frame
Roomful of French troops in a Franciscan abbey
History does not recall their names
Of the several things that you have to do today
You're gonna regret one
This generation asks for a sign
It isn't gonna get one
Berthe then took the pictures to the priest
And the priest fell on his face and pawed the floor
And the story lived on for a decade or two
But no one really knows it anymore
But the blessed heart is seen in the airbrush
And the blessed heart is beating on the wind
And the bodies of the faithful stacked by dozens by the roadsides
Stripped and scourged and skinned
Of the several things that you have to do today
You're gonna regret one
This generation asks for a sign
It isn't gonna get one
These ones here they are the pleasures of the spirit
And tucked behind a pornographic picture in a frame
The troops found the pierced heart and they all gathered near it
And the face gazed up from the frame
Roomful of French troops in a Franciscan abbey
History does not recall their names
You're gonna regret one
This generation asks for a sign
It isn't gonna get one
And the priest fell on his face and pawed the floor
And the story lived on for a decade or two
But no one really knows it anymore
And the blessed heart is beating on the wind
And the bodies of the faithful stacked by dozens by the roadsides
Stripped and scourged and skinned
You're gonna regret one
This generation asks for a sign
It isn't gonna get one
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zopilote Steel On Mar 05, 2008
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Mark 8:12, And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
"This picture, somewhat mysterious in its origin, was discovered at the time of the 1918 armistice in the cellar of the boarding school where Berthe Petit, a humble Franciscan Tertiary, had been educated. After the troops had departed one of the Bernardine nuns in putting things in order found a piece of cardboard on which was pasted a pornographic picture and she tore it off to consign it to flames. To her astonishment she found that it covered this beautiful representation of the Blessed Virgin! It seems to combine the art of both the Eastern and the Western Rites. The facial features resemble those of the well known Pieta. Prayers before this picture have brought signal favors.
Confided by Our Lord to Berthe Petit: "Teach souls to love the Heart of My Mother pierced by the very sorrow which pierced Mine." [Dec. 25, 1909]"
http://societyomary.blogspot.com/2005/11/this-picture-somewhat-mysterious-in.html
The "???" sounds to me like "pierced heart".
I believe it's "purest heart" -- like a relic of goodness