Priestess

In our seminary

Of contradictions

Ella Fitzgerald, thizz and whipits

You were our priestess

You were dressed all in black

Singing Angel from Montgomery

On your front porch

I'd join in harmony

I was working as a soda jerk

Listening to old Panthers' stories

Over lime rickeys and tuna fish

When there were very little worries

To return your temple of song

Each embryonic stage

Passed through your doorway

Page after page

Take it easy, Priestess

Take it easy, Priestess

Ooh, take it easy, Priestess

You were dealt a rotten hand

On a highway in Colorado

A wild horse swept under your legs

And wouldn't let you go

You saw that each one of us

Are opaque as woven air

Your dark humor no one could touch

From experience no one could bear

You slapped the Devil across his face

He puked up ice and black bile

How did you know how to frighten away

A being so vile?

No one could blame you

For being angry, resentful, or vicious

The entire universe deserved it

For being so malicious

Take it easy, Priestess

Take it easy, Priestess

Ooh, take it easy, Priestess

You would put your cigarette out

On the bottom of your foot

You could be brutally honest

But it always did me good

Join the Good People

Shine, cheer, and bloom with the Three Charities

Sing again, sing again

Angel from Montgomery

Take it easy, Priestess

Take it easy, Priestess

Ooh, take it easy, Priestess

Take it easy, Priestess

Ooh, take it easy, Priestess

Take it easy, Priestess

Ooh, take it easy, Priestess