Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'How a Resurrection Really Feels' - Her parents named her Hallelujah / The kids they called her Holly / And if she scared you then she's sorry / She's been stranded at these parties / These parties they start lovely / But they get druggy and they get ugly and they get bloody / The priest just kinda laughed / The deacon caught a draft / She crashed into the Easter mass / With her hair done up in broken glass / She was limping left on broken heels / When she said, 'Father, can I tell your congregation how a resurrection really feels?' / Holly was a hoodrat / And now you finally know that / And she's been disappeared for years / Today she finally came back / St. Louis had enslaved me / I guess Santa Ana saved me / And St. Peter had me on the queue / The St. Paul Saints they waved me through / And I was all wrapped up in some video booth / When I heard her say 'I love you too' / She said I've laid beneath my lovers / But I've never gotten laid / Some nights she felt protected / Some nights she felt afraid / She spent half last winter just trying to get paid / From some guy she'd originally / Thought to be her savior / They wrote her name in magic marks / On stop signs and subway cars / They got a mural up on East 13th that said / 'Hallelujah, rest in peace' / Hallelujah was a hoodrat / And now you finally know that / She's been disappeared for years / Today she finally came back / Walk on back, walk on back / She said don't turn me on again / I'll probably just go and get myself all gone again / Don't turn me on again / I'll probably just go and / Go and get myself all gone again / So don't turn me on again / I'll probably just go and go and get myself all gone again / Hallelujah was a sexy mess / And she looked strung out but experienced / Yeah, so we all got kind of curious / Walk on back...