Virgin Of Light Lyrics

Virgin Of Light lyrics

Archbishop
  Peter Abelard, I have summoned you here to respond to Canon
  Fulbert's charges
  He accuses you of
  Blasphemy and heresy

Fulbert
  And lechery with my niece
Archbishop
  That's past,
Fulbert
  They're married now
  Though they choose to live apart
  He can't deny
  They're married now
 Fulbert
  It's lechery
with my niece
Archbishop
  What else, Fulbert? What else?

Fulbert
  He called the Holy Mother religion ...
Archbishop
  A
what, Fulbert?
 Fulbert
  He called the Holy Mother religion a ...
Archbishop
  A what, Fulbert?
 Fulbert
  A whore, Archbishop. A
whore!
Archbishop
  Did you? Well, did you?

Abelard
 
I saw a virgin of light
  A celestial, beautiful bride
  Stained and
abused in the night
  By her many lovers
  Who are people like you,
Archbishop
  You parade around in silk and ermine, turning your eyes from
the
  naked in the street, turning your noses from the stench of their
sores
  while you perfume your bodies with oriental incense, while you
erect
  vast treasuries in your banks, and lie, and lie, and lie! It is
you who
  abuse the virgin of light and turn her into a whore!


 Whispers
  Heresy, blasphemy, lechery

Abelard
  I saw a
virgin of light
  A celestial, beautiful bride