THE ROUNDED ROCKS WERE AMAZING I SCRAPED AND SCRAMBLED THROUGH AND THEN EMERGED TO A MIDNIGHT DUNE AND YOU WE WATCHED AS MORNING MADE FUN OF THE EVENING AND ITS CREW IT SCARED THEM OFF IN A MUSCULAR BLAZE OF BLUE AND IN THOSE FEW RARE MOMENTS THAT WERE THANKFULLY DULLER YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD WHERE "PANK" WAS A COLOR HOW THEM SOUTHERN BELLES WITH THEIR REBEL YELLS TOOK AND PUT YOU THROUGH THEIR VARIOUS-LEVELED HELLS YOU SAID "THE ONE THING THAT I CARRY FROM THEN TO NOW IS THAT IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO LEARN THAT ANYONE WHO WANTS CLOSE TO THE LIGHT MUST BE WILLING TO BURN" I TOOK YOU HOME TO YOUR DADDY AND STOOD THERE IN THE HALL THAT STUNNING MULTI-MANSION MORE WINDOW THAN WALL HE HAD THE SAME BULLY SWAGGER HE'D USED BEFORE THE FALL AS IF AT ANY MOMENT, WELL, GOD MIGHT CALL WE JUMPED ABOARD HIS JUMBO JET TO THE HOLLYWOOD SET WHERE I MET THAT BRUNETTE IN HER 'VETTE THAT YOU BET I'D REGRET I SAID "IF YOU WANT A RAINBOW, GIRL IT'S GOTTA GET WET" BUT YOU HELPED ME FORGET WHEN HER PUTDOWN WAS STERN YOU SAID "CELEBRITIES WORRY WHAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT SAY, BUT THE ARTIST SEEKS THE CAPTURE AND NOT THE DISPLAY AND ANYONE WHO WANTS CLOSE TO THE LIGHT MUST BE WILLING TO BURN" WHIRLY-SURLY WORLD SPINS ROUND AND ROUND MAKES YOU HAVE TO SCREAM WITHOUT A SOUND IT'S NEVER FUN WHEN THEY CATCH UP AS ALL GOOD DEMONS DO I GUESS I WASN'T THE ONLY THING CHASING YOU THEY KEPT INCREASING YOUR DISTANCE FROM COMMON POINTS OF VIEW YOUR ANGER RAISING A WALL AS YOU WITHDREW SO WAS IT YOUR CONTENTION THAT I LEFT TOO SOON OR THAT DUMB MOTHERFUCKER THAT CALLED YOU "COON" JUST WHAT SOUR NOTE FINALLY BROKE YOUR TUNE AND DROVE YOU BACK TO THAT MIDNIGHT DUNE WHERE IN WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN A VICIOUS FLOOD OF BLUE BLUE MOONLIGHT AND RED RED BLOOD ALL YOUR WHAT- MIGHT-BE WAS SUDDENLY RETIRED WHIRLY-SURLY WORLD SPINS ROUND AND ROUND…… I KNOW IT'S HARD NOT TO COME WHEN PARANOIA CALLS BUT OUR ARGUMENTS THEY WEREN'T REALLY BRAWLS AND THOSE ROUNDED ROCKS THEY WEREN'T CANNONBALLS AND IF YOU ASK ME WHERE THIS FALLS, THIS FALLS ON YOU ‘CAUSE YOU WATCHED AS IT GREW AND IT GREW AND IT GREW AND IT GREW….. THIS FALLS…………. WHIRLY-SURLY WORLD SPINS ROUND AND ROUND MAKES YOU HAVE TO SCREAM WITHOUT A SOUND I'M SITTING HERE IN THE SILENCE WHERE DEATH PERFORMED ITS COUP AND TRYING TO FIND AN EMOTION TO PURSUE YOUR DADDY LIT UP THE SERVICE WITH HIS DRAMA QUEEN DEBUT BUT NOW IT'S ONLY THIS CHURCH AND JUST WE TWO YOU TAUGHT ME SO MUCH MORE THAN I'D HAVE LEARNED AT SCHOOLS LIKE IF YOU WANNA PLAY FAIR YOU GOTTA BREAK SOME RULES AND ANY GRAND ADVENTURE ISN'T WORTH THE JEWELS IF YOU AIN'T GOT THE TOOLS TO RETURN I CAN'T SAY IF I'M AN ARTIST IN ANY WAY BUT I'M GOING TO SEEK THE CAPTURE AND NOT THE DISPLAY AND I'M GOING TO GET CLOSE TO THE LIGHT ‘CAUSE I'M WILLING TO BURN ‘CAUSE YOU TAUGHT ME TO BURN AND I'M READY

LOVE IT LIFTS YOU INTO LIGHT IT’S A BURNING CONSTELLATION THROUGH A UNIVERSE OF LIES AND IT PUSHED ME PAST MY FRIGHT SO I MADE ITS DECLARATION AS YOU GAZED INTO MY EYES THEN YOU TOOK THAT SACRED MOMENT SHARED IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND LAUGHED SO HARD Y’ALL BARELY KEPT FROM CHOKIN ALL I KNOW IS TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER BROKEN WON’T SOMEBODY TELL ME PLEASE HOW THE HISTORY OF BEAUTY COULD BE GATHERED IN ONE (YOUR) SMILE AND YOU TOSSED IT WITH SUCH EASE THAT IT SEEMED MY SIMPLE DUTY TO SURRENDER TO ITS STYLE NOW YOU SAY THAT PARTY’S OVER AND THOUGH YOU DANCED THE DANCE I SURELY MUST HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU WERE JOKIN’ ALL I KNOW IS TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER BROKEN BRIDGE: OH HOW SAD JUMPING ON MY JOURNEY JUST TO STEAL A RIDE ‘CAUSE FROM THE START WHEN YOU TORE THIS HEART APART IF YOU’D LOOKED YOU WOULD’VE FOUND YOURSELF INSIDE SO I’M UP AGAINST THE ROPES I DON’T NEED NO CONSOLATION I CAN GET THERE ON MY OWN STILL THERE’S PART OF ME THAT HOPES AT THE VERY NEXT TEMPTATION I’LL BITE THE BAIT DOWN TO THE BONE WILL I EVER END UP WIELDING AN ADVENTURED HEART THAT SEEKS WITH ALL ITS SOUL TO STAY AWOKEN ALL I KNOW IS TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN ALL I KNOW IS TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER BROKEN

I'VE SCREAMED AND SCHEMED AND FOUGHT AND THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT HOW THIS VAST ARMADA OF CONGRESS-FOLK AND ADMINISTRATA HAVE SCRAMBLED UP MY WORLD TODAY THEN IT DAWNED ON ME THAT MAYBE I OUGHTA HEAD DOWN SOUTH GO ACROSS THE BAWDUH (BORDER) ORDER ME UP A GEORGE BUSH PINATA NOW EVERYTHING IS A-OK WELL YOU STRING IT UP, THEN SWING IT, BEAT IT WHACK WHACK WHACK YOU CAN DO IT ANY TIME HE TALKS SOME SMACK ABOUT IRAQ DID YOU EVER THINK THAT WE'D BE FIXIN' TO BUY A T-SHIRT SAYIN' "BRING BACK NIXON" BUT THEM BOYS SOUTH OF THE MASON-DIXON THEY STILL LOVE HIM SO THEY SURE DO LOVE YOU SO, MISTER PRESEEDINT IN MY MIND EVERY MEXICAN OUGHTA BUY THEMSELVES A GEORGE BUSH PINATA SO WHEN BORRACHO OR CONSADA OF ALL THESE GAMES POLITICIANS PLAY WHILE ON THE ONE HAND SOME APPLAUD A MAN WHO THINKS HE'S BEEN ELECTED GOD A- NOTHER GROUP HANGS THEIR PINATAS ALL IN A ROW THEN SWINGS AWAY ‘CAUSE THERE'S STILL FREE SPEECH IN THE USA SO THERE AIN'T NOTHING GEORGIE CAN DO OR SAY WHACK WHACK WHACK !

THE SKY'S A THICK BLACKENED BRUISE FILLED WITH LIGHTNING, BUT THIS AIN'T THE STORM YOU CONSIDER SO FRIGHTENING, AND THE DESTINATION IS DAWN WHERE ALL THIS DARKNESS IS GONE ‘CAUSE STORMS HAVE INVADED EVERYDAY MATTERS; THAT WILD DISTANT PLACE ON HER FACE WHEN SHE FLATTERS THERE'S THIS KNIFE IN HER PATIENCE JUST A TASTE IN HER EYES AND YOU CAN HEAR A SIGH WITHIN HER SOUL EACH TIME THE LADY LIES AND MAYBE EVERY CUT THAT MADE THIS CONCERT COME UNTUNED WON'T HEAL BECAUSE IT'S YOU WHO CAUSED THE WOUND CHORUS: AND LOVE IS SUCH A STRANGE ENDEAVOR IT ENDS UP AS A JOURNEY DOWN THIS LONG ROAD TO NEVER WHEN THOSE INVOLVED HAVE GONE TOO CLEVER TO RETURN TO FOREVER AGAIN WAS IT EMOTIONS YOU REINED IN TOO SLIGHTLY COLORED DIVISIONS RESOLVED BLACK-OR-WHITELY ‘TIL ALL DESTINATIONS ARE GONE BUT YOU KEEP TUMBLING ON AND AIN'T IT FUNNY HOW LIFE REARRANGES BY SLIDING AND COLLIDING THROUGH THESE ICE CREAM CHANGES WHAT SEEMS SWEET IN THE SHORT RUN TURNS COLD IN THE LONG AND ALL THE NEIGHBOR'S ENVY COUNTS FOR NOTHING IF THE PRIZE WAS WRONG SO WHY DENY THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION NEVER ASKED YOU DIDN'T SO MUCH CHANGE AS COME UNMASKED CHORUS: AND LOVE IS SUCH A STRANGE ENDEAVOR IT ENDS UP AS A JOURNEY DOWN THIS LONG ROAD TO NEVER WHEN THOSE INVOLVED HAVE GONE TOO CLEVER TO RETURN TO FOREVER AGAIN INSTRUMENTAL SOMEWHERE THERE SHOULD BE THIS LEVER YOU'D PULL AND ALL THESE WICKED WEBS OF DEFENSE WOULD SEVER AND ALL OF US WHO'VE GONE TOO CLEVER COULD RETURN TO FOREVER AGAIN

SHE DINES OFF OF GOLD SHE DRINKS FROM A CHALICE SHE RULES THE PALACE SHE JUST BARELY SPEAKS AND IT'S DONE ‘CAUSE RARE'S THE SULTAN HAS ONLY ONE SHE CHECKS IN HER MIRRORS THERE IS METHOD IN MAGIC ONE SLIP COULD BE TRAGIC HER LOOKS MUST BE SECOND TO NONE ‘CAUSE RARE'S THE SULTAN HAS ONLY ONE LATE AT NIGHT TO THE SOUND OF A WHITE BIRD'S CALLING SHE MUST CALM ALL HIS FEARS OF THE EMPIRE'S FALLING INSTRUMENTAL LATE AT NIGHT TO THE SOUND OF A WHITE BIRD'S CALLING SHE MUST CALM ALL HIS FEARS OF THE EMPIRE'S FALLING HE SPEAKS FROM HIS HEART HE NEEDS MORE THAN BEAUTY SHE HAS BUT ONE DUTY SHE KNOWS SHE MUST BEAR HIM A SON ‘CAUSE RARE'S THE SULTAN HAS ONLY ONE SHE KNOWS SHE MUST BEAR HIM A SON ‘CAUSE RARE'S THE SULTAN HAS ONLY ONE

SOMETIMES I'M LONELY A CONSTANT CRINGING BLUE SOMETIMES I STRUGGLE, LIKE THE CAPTAIN WHO LOST HIS CREW SOMETIMES LIFE ITS BEAUTY GOES PLACES I CAN'T VIEW AND I SEE NOWHERE TO TAKE IT BUT TO YOU YES I SEE NOWHERE TO TAKE IT BUT YOU SOMETIMES THERE'S QUESTIONS NOW THEY'RE KILLING THEM IN THE STREET SOMETIMES I FEEL IT THE EVIL IS COMPLETE THOUGH MY HEART IS HELMETED FEAR HAS FILTERED THROUGH AND I SEE NOWHERE TO TAKE IT BUT TO YOU YES I SEE NOWHERE TO TAKE IT BUT TO YOU SOMEONE IS NEAR ME IS IT YOUR SON OR MINE? HE SEEKS AND CURES ME WITH AN ANCIENT AND HONORED SIGN FAITH IT GAVE HIM MORTAL EYES FAITH IT SAW HIM THROUGH NOW HE SEES NOWHERE TO TAKE ME BUT YOU LORD HE SEES NOWHERE TO TAKE ME BUT TO YOU

PREACHER, PREACHER WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE STRUGGLING FOR HOURS WITH MY ORIGINAL SIN PERHAPS IF YOU'D DONE BETTER I WOULDN'T OF COME TO CALL IT FRIEND JESUS, JESUS, WHY YOU WAITING SO LONG? YOU MUST'VE REACHED THE CONCLUSION THAT MANKIND COULDN'T GET IT MORE WRONG I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOUR RETRIBUTION WAS SWIFT, YOUR VENGEANCE FIERY AND STRONG THERE'S THIS MURDER, AND SHE WAS BARELY 14 BUT SHE USED HER LOOKS LIKE A CLUB SHE HAD A METHOD INDESCRIBABLY MEAN I'M JUST SAYING THERE ARE NUMEROUS FOLKS WERE GLAD IT DIDN'T END CLEAN YES I DID IT AND HERE THE TRUTH I WILL TELL IT WAS SO PURE THE TERROR HAD TASTE; HER FEAR ITS OWN SPECIAL SMELL I MUST'VE STAYED THERE FOR OVER AN HOUR STANDING RIGHT WHERE SHE FELL PREACHER, PREACHER, TELL ME WHAT SHOULD I DO? I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE MY STATE OF MIND IT AIN'T YOUR LOGICAL VIEW WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? I SHOULD TURN MYSELF IN? WELL, PREACHER, NO THANK YOU PREACHER, PREACHER, WAS THAT YOUR DAUGHTER OUTSIDE? SHE'S SO YOUNG, SWEET, INNOCENT, PURE I'M SURE SHE'S A SOURCE OF CONSIDERABLE PRIDE I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND, BUT WHILE I WAS WAITING I TOOK HER FOR A RIDE A SHORT RIDE, SHORT FIERCE RIDE PREACHER, PREACHER , I COULD NOT BE DENIED I KNOW YOU WANT TO JUST GRAB ME RIGHT BY THE HORNS I'LL BET YOU AIN'T THINKING MUCH ABOUT YOUR MAIN MAN AND HIS CROWN OF THORNS BUT PREACHER YOU MUST SEEK TO FORGIVE, THAT'S WHAT YOUR GOOD BOOK WARNS YES I DID IT, I LEFT HER DOWN IN YOUR WELL AND SINCE I CONFESSED IN YOUR SACRED BOOTH, NOW WHO YOU GOING TO TELL? I GUESS WE BOTH GRASPED OUR SEPARATE VISION OF A PERSONAL HELL A PERSONAL HELL OH, THE TASTE, THE SMELL PREACHER, PREACHER, I MUST BID YOU FAREWELL PREACHER PREACHER WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? I'VE BEEN SEARCHING SIX YEARS LET'S THANK GOD THAT I FOUND YOU AGAIN I SEE YOUR JOB AND YOUR WIFE ARE BOTH NEW AND I GUESS CONGRATULATIONS ARE DUE I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GLAD I AM SHE'S TALKED YOU INTO HAVING CHILDREN CHILDREN SWEET CHILDREN PREACHER, PREACHER, HERE WE GO AGAIN.

AMAZING HOW THE MOONLIGHT FLOWS OUT THROUGH THE SCARS IN YOUR EYES DEEP REFLECTIVE, POWER GREEN AND WISE AND WHEN WE WANDERED THROUGH THAT DOORWAY TOWARDS YOUR BED FULL OF SIGHS YOUR OBJECTIVE WAS SUCH A SWEET SURPRISE CHORUS: WE LOVED LIKE SLOW LIGHTNING WE FELL THROUGH THE NIGHT THE JOURNEY WAS FRIGHTENING LIKE SOME SWIRLING,STORM-BLOWN KITE AND HOW COULD YOU SIEZE ME WITH SO LITTLE FIGHT YOU CAUGHT ME AS EASY AS A JEWEL CAPTURES LIGHT WE TRADED NUMBERS IN THE AIRPORT IT WAS SO HARD TO WRITE ALL THE YEARNING THE FINAL HOLDING TIGHT I WISH THAT PASSIONS WITH THIS POWER WOULD STAY SWEPT OUT OF SIGHT NO RETURNING I WATCHED YOUR FAREWELL FLIGHT CHORUS: WE LOVED LIKE SLOW LIGHTNING WE FELL THROUGH THE NIGHT THE JOURNEY WAS FRIGHTENING LIKE SOME SWIRLING,STORM-BLOWN KITE AND HOW COULD YOU SIEZE ME WITH SO LITTLE FIGHT YOU CAUGHT ME AS EASY AS A JEWEL CAPTURES LIGHT

MY MOM SENT THE NEWS MY WAY THE PAPER SAID YOU'D RUN OUT OF LUCK AND IT GAVE THE TIME OF DAY THAT THEY SCRAPED YOU OFF THAT SEMI TRUCK AND THERE WAS SURPRISE AT HOW YOUR LIFE CAME TO A HALT BUT I ALWAYS KNEW YOUR DEATH WOULD BE YOUR FAULT CHORUS: SO, FAREWELL COMPADRE, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN BUT YOU'VE LEFT YOUR HELL FAREWELL COMPADRE FAREWELL WELL I GUESS YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE TO REMAIN LIKE A WASP BETWEEN THE CURTAIN AND WINDOWPANE SO FAREWELL COMPADRE FAREWELL NOW WHEN YOU RETURNED FROM 'NAM AND WE STARTED DEALING THINGS TO SMOKE I HAD FEARS OF UNCLE SAM AND LOOKED FOR THE FEDS AFTER EVERY TOKE BUT ‘CAUSE YOU HAD SEEN THE HORRID THINGS THAT WARS ALLOW BOTH FEAR AND ELATION SEEMED TO SLIDE BY YOU SOMEHOW CHORUS: BRIDGE: OOH, THE THINGS THAT YOU DID IT'S TRUE, YOU KNOW THEY WOULDN'T STAY HID SO FAREWELL COMPADRE I CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR LEAVING I FLEW TO YOUR FUNERAL AND YOUR TOMBSTONE READ "BETTER DEAD" WHEN I LEFT THE MOON TURNED FULL BUT I COULDN'T SEE THE ROAD AHEAD AND THROUGH BITTER TEARS I CURSED THE WAR THAT BROKE YOUR HEART BUT I KNOW YOU WERE ASHAMED THAT YOU DID YOUR PART CHORUS: SO, FAREWELL COMPADRE, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN BUT YOU'VE LEFT YOUR HELL FAREWELL COMPADRE FAREWELL AND I'M GLAD YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE TO REMAIN LIKE A WASP BETWEEN THE CURTAIN AND WINDOWPANE SO FAREWELL COMPADRE FAREWELL

IT'S JUST THREE BENDS AWAY THEY SAY YOU'LL HEAR IT'S CLARION CALL THEN FASTER THAN A FALCON STALL YOU'LL COME ACROSS THE WATERFALL STILL I SLIDE MY GLASS CANOE INTO THE RIVER'S PITCH AND DODGING ROCKS I SEEK TO HITCH A GLIDE INTO THE MOUNTAIN'S NICHE OH, THE WILDNESS IN HALF-KNOWN UNKNOWN ANTICIPATION SPINS SUCH AN AMAZING TONE AND AT THE WATER'S GHOSTLY RISE YOU WONDER WAS IT TRULY WISE TO MOUNT THIS FRAGILE EGG AND TAKE HER DANCING WITH THE STONE AND PAST THE EDGE THE VIEW CONSISTS OF JUST A DOZEN DIFFERENT MISTS AND UNDERNEATH THEM NATURE'S FISTS NATURE'S FISTS ARE WAITING

LADY LATELY YOU SEEM SO STATELY ALL YER HUMOUR SWEPT OUT THE DOOR THAT'S ALL WRONG DON'T BE STRONG THE SORROW SHOULD SEEP PRESS AGAINST ME LIGHTLY AND CRY YOURSELF TO SLEEP A PLAIN VIEW CAN CLEAR YOUR WORLD OF BLUE THE SAME'S TRUE WHEN MY HEART TURNS TO YOU IT CLEARS MY WORLD OF BLUE SWOLLEN GOLDEN GENTLY ENFOLDIN' MY LOVE REEKS OF POWER AND PAIN IT'S FRIGHTENING YOUR BLOOD RINGS THE TERROR RUNS DEEP STILL I COME HERE NIGHTLY AND TAKE THAT LOVERS' LEAP A GAME FEW CAN WHIP AN ENTIRE CREW THE SAME'S TRUE WHEN MY HEART TURNS TO YOU I'D WHIP AN ENTIRE CREW BRIDGE: SINCE THE SUICIDE ALL THE TRICKS I'VE TRIED YOU OVERRULE HIGH TONED, AND GREY-BONED, AND CRUEL DON'T YOU SENSE THIS SHIFT FROM THE DANCE TO THE DUEL? WHY WON'T YOU SAY SO, YOU FOOL? LOOK THERE SEE WHERE THAT MOTH FLIES TOWARDS THAT FLARE DESIRES MAKE FIRE'S DANGERS IGNORED IT JUST TRIED ‘TIL IT DIED BUT NO NEED TO WEEP I THINK IT WENT BRIGHTLY INTO THAT DEATHLY KEEP THE FLAMES DREW THAT MOTH UNTIL 'TWAS THROUGH THE SAME'S TRUE WHEN MY HEART TURNS TO YOU THE FLAMES DREW THAT MOTH UNTIL 'TWAS THROUGH THE SAME'S TRUE WHEN MY HEART TURNS TO YOU

TO THOSE WHO DRAW WITH DETAIL FINE YOUR BEAUTY'S SO EXCITING YOUR LOVELINESS FLOATS FAR BEYOND ASTONISHING BUT WE WHO DEAL WITH LIGHT NOT LINE FIND EQUALLY EXCITING THAT RADIANCE FROM THE SHIMMER OF YOUR BLOSSOMING MOST WHO EMBRACE THAT GORGEOUS FACE SEE NO NEED TO CONTINUE BUT THEY MISS EVERY SUPPLE GRACE EMERGING DEEP WITHIN YOU THE LEADER OF YOUR CAUSE RESIGNED WITH EVERYBODY WATCHING YET IN YOUR SAD BUT HOPEFUL STANCE I SAW SOMETHING IT SEEMS TO ME THE STATE OF MIND BRAZILIANS CALL "SAUDADE" LIES COILED WITHIN THE SHIMMER OF YOUR BLOSSOMING WHILE OTHERS RAN AROUND ALARMED YOU GATHERED YOUR BRAVADO THEN FACED THE TROUBLE OPEN ARMED LIKE CHRIST ON CORCOVADO ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S AN UPROAR FROM THE CROWD IT BECOMES SCATTER-SCARRED AND LOUD IT'S ALL A MESS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BUT NOT YOU YOU STOOD THERE TALL AND TRUE RESTRAINED, PROFANED, YOUR GOLDEN MANE BLOODSTAINED YOU WOULD NOT SOFTEN WERE I 100TH AS HUMANE I'D TELL YOU LOUD AND OFTEN THAT THE UNIVERSE GOES ON SO LONG IT DOESN'T HAVE A MIDDLE NO EDGES MAKE IT SUCH A CRUELLY AWESOME THING BUT I THINK NEXT TO YOUR SOUL'S SONG THE UNIVERSE IS LITTLE AND QUAKES BEFORE THE SHIMMER OF YOUR BLOSSOMING I FEEL SO LUCKY TO BE PART OF YOUR MAGNIFICENT GLIDE TOWARDS A LUSH AND BOOMING LIFE

I SEE JESUS IN A THREE ROOM SHACK DON'T SEE HIM DRIVIN' NO CADILLAC NO CHAUFFER UP FRONT AND JESUS WAY IN THE BACK JUST HUMPIN' AN EXECUTIVE HEART ATTACK NO, I DON'T SEE JESUS AS SOME CORPORATE PARROT SEEKING OUT SOME MIDDLE MANAGEMENT CORPORATE CARROT ‘CAUSE JESUS KNOWS THE TRUTH AND HE JUST MIGHT BLARE IT THAT YOUR LIFE IS MADE MORE WONDERFUL THE MORE THAT YOU SHARE IT THAT'S HOW I SEE JESUS Chorus: OH, JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO HE WILL WASH ME WHITE AS SNOW DIRTY LITTLE JOB FOR JESUS NOW I DON'T LOOK FOR TROUBLE SO I DON'T WANNA MANGLE THIS BUT ROUND AN ROUND IT COMES SO I JUST WANNA DANGLE THIS THOUGHT THAT MAYBE JESUS WATCHES THEM TELEVANGELISTS AND PUTS THEM PRETTY HIGH UP ON HIS "PERSONAL STRANGLE LIST" ‘CAUSE BOYS, THAT'S THE ACTION OF A TRULY ARROGANT MAN, TO STRUT AROUND BRAGGIN' THAT YOU'RE JESUS' FRONT MAN THAT'S ONE RELIGIOUS THEORY MADE ME LAUGH ‘TIL I SLOBBERED, SON THAT GOD APPEARS BUT WANTS TO TALK FIRST TO PAT ROBERT—(SON) SUNLIGHT TO SUNSET NOW WHAT YOU GIVE IS WHAT YOU GET THERE AIN'T NO BETTER WAY OF QUOTIN' JESUS BEEN INVENTED YET AND THIS TRUTH WILL APPLY TO ANY RELIGION TRAITOR WHEN JESUS AND SAINT PETE SHOW THEM THE DOWN ESCALATOR ‘CAUSE YOU GOTTA THINK JESUS HANGS WITH BHUDDA, MOHAMMED SIPPIN WINE AROUND THE CAMPFIRE ALL COZILY PAJAMA'ED CONVERSATION WOULD GET THICK BUT NEVER OVERDRAMA'ED THERE'D BE NOTHIN BUT RESPECT IN THAT TRI-RELIGI-O-RAMA THAT'S HOW I SEE JESUS Chorus: YOU KNOW I LOOK IN YOUR EYE AND I SEE JUST WHAT YOU'RE THINKIN' I GOT THIS MUSICIAN'S LIFE WITH WILD WOMEN WILD DRINKIN BUT LET ME TAKE THIS TIME TO MAKE THE DECLARATION FORMAL THAT NONE OF US HERE HAS GOT THE GUTS TO BE NORMAL SO I THINK JESUS LOVES YOU MOST OF ALL LOVES HOW YOU STAGGER BACK UP AFTER FALL AFTER FALL HE'D JUMP RIGHT INTO YOUR TRIALS (LIFE) EMBRACE YOUR SUBURBAN SPRAWL AND IF HE EVER DOES COMES BACK DESPITE THE HOLY PROTOCOL HE'D WANT A REGULAR LIFE - THAT FIRST TIME GOT SORTA TWISTY HE'D SETTLE DOWN WITH A WIFE - SOMEWHERE…..CORPUS CHRISTI!! THERE'D BE SOME PERSONAL STRIFE; HIS DADDY'D PROB'LY INSIST HE SPOUT SOME NEW-LIGIOUS JIVE- BUT ONCE HE'D PROVED HE EXISTS HE COULD MAYBE RETIRE, RAISE UP A RESTAURANT IN RIO CALL IT THE "DEW DROP INN" WITH THE "DEW" SPELLED D-O- COOK UP SOME NEW CUISINE COMBINING CANTON AND CREOLE AND THE RICH WOULD HAVE TO PAY BUT THE HOMELESS GET IN FREE OH THAT'S HOW I SEE THAT'S HOW I SEE THAT'S HOW I SEE…………………… JESUS LOVES US THIS I KNOW