[Intro - 4-bar melodic single-string riff in G major with bluesy slide accents, drums kick in soft at bar 3]

[Verse 1]
After all the bells and after all the smoke,
After all the rendering and the costume broke,
After all the books were opened and the page was read,
After all the verdicts on the living and the dead,
There was a table set with fat things and aged wine,
And a Father who had wiped the tears from every line.
And the Lamb who bore the shame was the One at the head,
And the bread was the bread that the prophets always said.

[Pre-chorus]
And the table was wider than the apparatus knew,
And the company was wider than the gatekeepers drew.
The hymn-singers and the addicts and the simple poor
Sat at the elbow of the apostles I would have ignored.

[Chorus - GANG VOCAL, open and melodic, almost hymn-like]
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
The diagnosis was in service of the dancer!
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
The wrath made the room - and the wine was the cancer!
The Lamb at the head and the saints at the chair!
The widow and the writer and the addict were there!
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
And the door of the room - was the answer!

[Verse 2]
Mary Sutcliffe was harmonizing in the choir,
Her husband was conducting and the band was higher.
Danny Mercer was eating bread with his mother's hand,
The young writer was laughing with the saints of the land.
The free-willers I would have argued in the life before
Were laughing with the Calvinists I had cursed at the door.
The framework I had labored at had served its end,
And the end of the framework was the Lamb as friend.

[Pre-chorus]
And the table was wider than the apparatus knew,
And the company was wider than the gatekeepers drew.
The hymn-singers and the addicts and the simple poor
Sat at the elbow of the apostles I would have ignored.

[Chorus - GANG VOCAL]
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
The diagnosis was in service of the dancer!
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
The wrath made the room - and the wine was the cancer!
The Lamb at the head and the saints at the chair!
The widow and the writer and the addict were there!
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
And the door of the room - was the answer!

[Guitar Solo - 16 bars, Angus Young melodic blues-pentatonic in G major, singing tone, sustained warm bends, the closer-solo of the album]

[Final Chorus - DOUBLE, gang vocals stacked higher, opens into hymn-like wash]
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
The diagnosis was in service of the dancer!
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
The wrath made the room - and the wine was the cancer!
THE FEAST - WAS THE TABLE!
The Lamb at the head and the saints in the stable!
THE FEAST - WAS THE WIDOWS!
The free-willers and the Calvinists and the addicts were the chiefs!
THE FEAST - WAS THE ANSWER!
And the door of the room - was the answer!

[Outro - 4-bar riff with sustained final chord, the bell from track 2 returns very faintly in the distance, fades]