Topless Dancer

If you lived in the shadow of the mountain
Would you notice when the mountain was gone?
If you played in the sparkling fountain
Would the drought seem twice as long?
If that night you slept with strangers in their houses
In the morning sang a traveling song
Would you feel a little bit stronger
When they were gone?
She sang to me the rythym of Autumn
It was there that I found my space
In the search for the perfect Madonna
To bear the burden of amazing grace
I found her as a topless dancer
Making a mess of the place
She took no questions and she gave no answers
She just sang:
"Hold
Tight
Don't leave the light on for me,
'Cause I just
Might
Cut myself loose and go free."
I hope you see
The topless dancer in me.
I learned to ask the lord for forgiveness,
Before I learned to forgive myself
So I wore myself thin as a window,
And on my trophies from the shelf
When I woke up in the morning from a good, good dream,
I felt the burden of unspeakable guilt
I washed the milky white stain from my bed sheet
Not praying for help
So to the priests and the prophets
Who say our bodies are godless oh tell me what
The hell does that mean?
I hope you see
I hope you see
I hope you see
The topless dancer in me.