Name: Junipero Serra
Duration: P00H05M44S
Description: What if the New World changed the missionary more than he changed it?

Junipero Serra

from The Judas Sheep by Pie

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What if the New World changed the missionary more than he changed it?

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You say anything you want to
Not like they can understand you
It’s too easy for you now

It could be time to end the mission
Father Junipero Serra
That’s not easy for you now

See the girls dancing in the courtyard
Hear them singing, singing Alelujia
In this Eden there’s more than Eve to tempt you
In the New World not even God can stop you
At this moment the reason that you came here
Is precisely the reason you must go
At this moment the King of Spain is dreaming
Of mission water flowing through his toes

In your sleep you play the end game
With every dream there is a new flame
You think at dawn you’ll burn the whole thing down

Ships bring word from Porto Vigo
What is up in Capistrano?
Is it time to bring the padre home?

In the vineyard the fruit hangs down like rapture
And the crushings (are) like morphine in your mouth
In the tallow the pearl of the candle
Melting down into the fire from the south
At this moment the reason that you came here
Is precisely the reason you must go
At this moment the King of Spain is dreaming
Of Mission daughters sleeping in his house

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from The Judas Sheep, released December 9, 2019

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