RIC TAYLOR - I SEE JESUS - Video
PUBLISHED:  Apr 16, 2009
DESCRIPTION:
I wrote the song as a serious satirical reprisal to Televangelists and then it sort of ran amok at the end. Recorded at Kulak's Woodshed in North Hollywood.
ENJOY!!

I SEE JESUS IN A THREE ROOM SHACK
DON’T SEE HIM DRIVIN’ NO CADILLAC
NO CHAUFFEUR UP FRONT AND JESUS WAY IN THE BACK
JUST A-HUMPIN’ AN EXECUTIVE HEART ATTACK
NO, I DON’T SEE JESUS AS SOME CORPORATE PARROT
SNIFFIN’ 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
AND THAT’S HOW I SEE JESUS
Chorus:
JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
HE WILL WASH ME WHITE AS SNOW
(DIRTY LITTLE JOB FOR JESUS)

YOU KNOW I DON’T LOOK FOR TROUBLE SO I DON’T WANNA MANGLE THIS
BUT ROUND AND ROUND IT COMES SO I JUST THOUGHT I’D 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 RELIGION THEORY MADE ME LAUGH ‘TIL I SLOBBERED, SON
THAT GOD APPEARS BUT WANTS TO TALK FIRST TO PAT ROBERT—(SON)
SUNLIGHT TO SUNSET WHAT YOU GIVE IS WHAT YOU GET
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 BUDDHA, MOHAMMED
SIPPIN’ WINE AROUND THE CAMPFIRE 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:
JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
HE WILL WASH ME WHITE AS SNOW
(DIRTY LITTLE JOB; NASTY LITTLE JOB
EXCEEDINGLY LAUNDROMATIC, DIRTY LITTLE JOB FOR JESUS)

YOU KNOW I LOOK IN YOUR EYES AND I SEE JUST WHAT YOU’RE THINKIN’
I GOT THIS MUSICIAN’S LIFE WITH WILD WOMEN, WILD DRINKIN’
BUT LET ME BE THE FIRST TO MAKE THIS DECLARATION FORMAL
NONE OF US UP 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 LIVES 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 THEN 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, BABY, 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
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