Songs:Town Called Jesus (82379)

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Lyrics

(Stephen Fearing/2001/© Fearing & Loathing Music)

Our founding fathers built this town
And they named it for God's Son
On Sundays, it was fine clothes for everyone
But on Mondays when the gloves came off
There was always hell to pay
On the other side of Jesus, nearly half a world away
you and me, we learned to sing
As soon as we could run
We left that town like buckshot from a gun
and we flew with our ambitions
and our faded black berets
To the other side of Jesus, nearly half a world away
Money comes and money goes like water through my hands
Money spills like blood upon the land
Money finds the sacred place and rolls the stone away
Concrete in the fields, and the Northern Lights are fading
And there's something I've been looking for
On every hungry street
Older than the stone beneath my feet
a secret, waiting for a kid
To dig it from the clay
On the other side of Jesus, nearly half a world away
Money comes and money goes like water through my hands
Money spills like blood upon the land
Money finds the sacred place and rolls the stone away
Concrete in the fields, and the Northern Lights are fading
And there's something I've been looking for
On every hungry street
Older than the stone beneath my feet
a secret, waiting for a kid
To dig it from the clay
Like the long lost bones of Jesus, nearly half a world away
On the other side of Jesus, nearly half a world away

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Town Called Jesus by Stephen Fearing SONG
on the album That's How I Walk Buy Stephen Fearing at CD-Baby Any album (including That's How I Walk)	Request this song: Town Called Jesus (Only logged in and authenticated users can make requests.) Overall rating: (18 votes) Your rating: You have to login to give your opinion about songs. Length: 4:07 Times played: 39 People hearing: 874 Times requested: 28 First played: Oct 31st, 2004 Last played: Oct 25th, 2008 Previously played: Sep 20th, 2008 Song ID#: 82379	Listener rankings: 5 stars=Esther ♦ Jim ♦ Flying Trout ♦ Hoonah ♦ Atuuschaaw 4 stars=Kelli ♦ Fine-line ♦ TundraDawg ♦ Doctordoug ♦ RickHap ♦ 12-stringer ♦ Kazookid ♦ E.D. Egg ♦ Griffin 3 stars=Ruben 2 stars=Chris200 ♦ Mert 1 star=hideous harpy