The most Catholic popular song lyrics I’ve heard in a long time, from Brit folk-rock ensemble Mumford and Sons. Am I wrong?
‘Cause I know that time has numbered my days
And I’ll go along with everything you say
But I’ll ride home laughing, look at me now
The walls of my town, they come crumbling downAnd my ears hear the call of my unborn sons
And I know their choices color all I’ve done
But I’ll explain it all to the watchman’s son,
I ain’t ever lived a year better spent in love‘Cause I’ll know my weakness, know my voice
And I’ll believe in grace and choice
And I know perhaps my heart is farce,
But I’ll be born without a maskLike the city that nurtured my greed and my pride,
I stretched my arms into the sky
I cry Babel! Babel! Look at me now
Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling downYou ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl,
As all we see will slip into the cloud
So come down from your mountain and stand where we’ve been,
You know our breath is weak and our body thinPress my nose up, to the glass around your heart
I should’ve known I was weaker from the start,
You’ll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
To tear, tear them down,
Well I’m gonna tear, tear them down‘Cause I know my weakness, know my voice,
And I’ll believe in grace and choice
And I know perhaps my heart is farce,
But I’ll be born without a mask
Catholicism Pure & Simple 
The lead singer Marcus Mumford is married to my favourite actress Carey Mulligan, who came to my attention via the Doctor Who story “Blink”. No links to that, I’m afraid, but here she is being interviewed:
Adorable ++, if I may say so. The interviewer is quite good too, in a dour, self-mocking, ironic Scotch way.
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“And I know perhaps my heart is farce,
But I’ll be born without a mask”
Not quite Cole Porter, perhaps?
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Not Cole Porter, no. More recent.
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