Christ The Vine

by Mark D Price

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"[Daniel F.] enjoyed a unique relationship to Jesus. Really enjoyed it. I told him I considered ''Jesus'' a historical figure at best. He said I had a limited understanding of the word ''historical''. Danny interpreted that first water-into-wine miracle as a sign that Jesus was an alchemist, and chemical intoxication was a path to God. Well Danny's gone... missing... presumed. But I'm sure he'd say I have a limited understanding of the word 'dead''' - Christine Hayes.
From the forthcoming collection 'The Re-Union'.

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His head's a spinning dance floor
Full of mannequins and mermaids
Sun and Stars and Brother lost at sea
There's a compass deep inside him
Which will always lead him home
And a secret roll of banknotes
In the boot-heel of his soul
So he's fine - all manner of things will be fine
While he's mystically afflicted by his stories of Christ the Vine.

Pilgrimizing every dive and crack-house in the harbour
Whistling German reggae by Bob Wailley and the Mahlers
His post-ironic post-traumatic ego is in tatters
And he's hammered on kaleidoscopic alkaloids and downers
But he's fine - all measure of things will be fine
With his fathom-five connections to the chaos of Christ the Vine.

And he's stealing the vulture from Prometheus
He's selling the Chief Rabbi a Greek lyre
He's telling the fates what they can do with us
While he's dancing through a womb of restless knives
But he's alright.
Not safe nor sound, but he'll survive
Wrapped in sacred barbaric night
He'll be rare and raw and fine
While he howls his hallelujas to the glory of Christ the Vine.

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released October 14, 2019
Words and music by Mark D Price. Mixed by Simon Mayo at Spirit Studios.

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