C               G

They might have burned

        F                        C

but the priests were all taking turns

        Em                     Am

showing nuns what they had discerned

  Am/G       F             G

about their bodies in the dark

C            G

they carried on

          F                C

from the evening until the dawn

           Em                   Am           Am/G      F

like they should have been all along making harmless sparks

G                   G7             C