Drive-By Truckers - Maria's Awful Disclosure lyrics

An uncontrollable child, given to fantasy
A leaded lobotomy left Maria wild
With a mob in her head
Holding Magdalene's down in asylums

Ghost-written pornography
Tailored to readers in need of
A righteous excuse to indulge
Maria’s awful disclosures

Born of illicit liaisons the babies of
Hôtel-Dieu convent weren't meant to survive
Baptized then strangled then
Buried mass infanticide
Something worse done to something
More innocent's consistent presence
Alongside the tales of the times
The monks of the presents
Connection to Maria’s mind
If some know nothing
Nothing's keeping some from knowing it all


What nobody saw is anybody's call
Predispositions turn spaces in men
Into thirsty pages for a hell bent pen

Professional victims with recycled lies
Stoking satanic panic in fear addled minds
Maria's awful disclosures

Ghost-written pornography tailored to readers
In need of a righteous excuse to indulge
Maria's awful disclosures