Loose Translation - The New Pornographers

One Holy Ghost

For a lonely girl

In a green T-shirt

That read, I quote:

«What price damnation now?»

In the school of thought

In the halls of state

With a leap of faith

The loose translation

Must have lost her

It must have caused her

To go back to the civilization

Caught between here and the real one

Just to say what you’d begun to say once

We have been enrolled

In the wrong schools all

Through the pride of fall

The falling price of education now

There have been no clues

In the last few takes

In the steps retraced

The education

Must have cost her

It must have caused her

To go back to the civilization

Caught between here and the real one

Just to say what you’d begun to say once

The education must have cost her

The loose translation must have lost her, it must have lost her, yeah

The loose translation must have lost her, it must have lost her, yeah

It must have lost her, it must have lost her, yeah