Album: Architecture & Morality (1982)

Charted: 5

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• Little catholic girl is fallin' in love
  A face on a page, a gift from above
  She should've known better than to give her heart
  She should've known better than to ever part without me, without me
  I gave her everything that I ever owned
  I think she understood but she never spoke
  She shouldn't oughta try to be that way
  She shouldn't have to go there every day without me, without me
  Now listen to us good and listen well
  Listen to the song and everything we tell
  We should've known better than to give her away
  We should've known better to this very day, without me, without me
  Listen, Joan of Arc, all you gotta do
  Say the right words and I'll be coming through
  Hold you in my arms and take you right away
  Now she's gone away to another land
  We never understood why she gave her hand
  She shouldn't oughta promise, 'cos it's just pretend
  I know she doesn't mean it and she'll live again without me, without me
  Without me, without me Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• Caleb from Los Angeles, CaI once did a couple of hits of acid at Disneyland. I sat in The Enchanted Tiki Room and the talking birds started to whistle and for some reason this song popped into my head, "Little catholic girl has fallen in love... A face on a page, a gift from above..." then I had a reverie/vision of her life and I was moved to tears. I turned to a middle aged woman sitting next to me and said, "Poor girl. She was only 15, leading armies, hearing the voice of God. Her light went out so soon". The older woman looked concerned and said, "Who's light? Who do you mean" I said, "Joan of Ark" And I tried to sing a few lines, "Listen Joan of Arc, all you gotta do
  Say the right words and I'll be coming through.." My friend Sam said I was snapping my fingers in time to the music and smiling more with my teeth than my eyes.
  
  At this point the woman began to move away and I remember I said to her, "you've changed Gloria. you've changed". Then her husband got all up in my face and said, "listen son, her name's not Gloria and you don't talk to my wife like that, and by then D-land security was piling into the Tiki Room. But before they took me away I said to not-Gloria's husband, "Listen son, said the man with the gun there''s room for you inside".
  
  All in all, a beautiful song, with or without the help of Albert Hoffman's Sandoz gift.
  
• Musicmama from New York, NyIt's actually a brand of brie. Hey--there's a song in this. "Joan of Arc--isn't that a cheese?" If any of you songwriters like the idea, take it!
• Darrell from EugeneJoan of Arc? Isn't that a brand of canned vegetables that may or may not be defunct?

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