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Saturday, April 3, 2010

American Music Club - Jesus' Hands

American Music Club - Jesus' Hands


You know how country songs are- sad, set in bars, about people who are down on their luck, people with crops in the field, hungry mouths to feed, and women who left them in the middle of it all. Well, Mark Eitzel has put them all to shame. He's written the perfect country song about a loser who Jesus can't even save. I love it. It's kitschy, it's ironic, it's heartfelt, it's irreverent, and it's brilliant.









Jesus' Hands

by American Music Club

Well I'd like to hang out
But I can tell that you're not a drinking crowd
I got places to go, people to see
I got a thirst that would make the ocean proud

Hey Brother, hey Sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser? No one can touch him
He's a-slippin' through Jesus' hands

I'm walking in circles in a waiting room
For a welcome I don't feel in my soul
I watch the time pass, it pours in my glass
I drink it down, blood from a stone

Hey Brother, hey Sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser? No one can touch him
He's a-slippin' through Jesus' hands

Looking for love in all the wrong places
The sidewalks and the sky
Looking for something that no one can give me
And no one can help me buy

O Brother, o Sister
Don't you see a crack form in the dam
For a loser? No one can touch him
He's a-slippin' through Jesus' hands

Well I'd like to hang out
But I can tell that you're not a drinking crowd
I got nowhere to go, no one to see
I got a thirst that would make the ocean proud

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