Saint Paul the Persecutor
Was a
cruel and sinful man
Jesus hit him with a blinding light
And then his life began
I said yes
I said yeah
Augustine knew temptation
He loved women, wine and song
And all the special pleasures
Of doing something wrong
I said yes
I said yeah
I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Yeah
And could you stand the torture?
And could you stand the pain?
Could you put your faith in Jesus
When you're burning in the flames?
I said yes Mm mm-mm
And I do believe in miracles
And I want to save my soul
And I know that I'm a sinner
I'm going to die here in the cold
I said yes
I said yeah
I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
(Ooh ooh ooh) Ah
I thought I heard an angel cry (Ooh ooh)
I thought I saw a teardrop falling from his eye (Ooh ooh ooh)
Mm mm mm mm-mm-mm - mm mm mm-mm (Ooh ooh)
Come on
John the Baptist was a martyr
But he stirred up Herod's hate
And Salome got her wish
To have him served up on a plate
I said yes - yeah
I said yeah Ha, I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
(Ooh ooh...) (Ooh...) I thought I heard an angel cry (Ooh ooh ooh) I thought I saw a teardrop falling from his eye (Ooh...) Mm mm-mm, yeah, yeah
(Ooh ooh ooh)I thought I saw an angel cry Mm mm mm-mm (Ooh...)
Ah yeah
Mm mm mm
You'll never make a saint of me
Mm mm mm, mm mm mm
You'll never make a saint of me
Mm mm mm, mm mm Never make a saint of me Mm mm
Never make a saint of me
Mm...
TrackTalk
I didn't know what I was doing sometimes when
I was sitting in the Dust Brothers' studio in Silver Lake and it's just
me and I've got absolutely nothing to start with and I'm going, I
wonder
if this is really such a good idea I'm doing this. And they got
this
little drum machine going, which is called an 808 which everyone uses,
and it's just tinkling away in the back there, like, in this teeny way
and I'm quite used to all that but... So I'm sitting there playing my
keyboard
and playing Saint of Me and I'm thinking, Sounds like shit,
this
is terrible, how is it ever going to work out? And how I am gonna...
And it was very, you know, it's quite slow. I was having fun with it,
but
it's very low tech in that studio and I just didn't know how it was
gonna
build up. But then, as it goes on, you know, and I took the tapes,
transferred
them and then went to the studio and Charlie sort of played on them.
And
then I'd bring them back and... it comes in piece (by) piece. It still
had to really take shape but it was quite fun doing that. I mean, it
was
just good to do it in another way, really, and I had a lot of fun with
that one.
