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Like a Father to a Son
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Verse 1:
Burnt toast buildings stacked on vacancy crimes
When family men can't make the rent they wanna blow it on the wine
Blown out on the wine, get blown out on the fields
How much tragedy till someone gonna yield
Chorus:
Don'tcha know that the things you say
Can be held against you in a different closer day
You'd better not stray when a stranger calls you honey
Cuz power like that is weirder than money
Verse 2:
She'll be riding six white horses when she comes
Lecturing about her past lives, she calls her ex-husband scum
Dancing up the best-sellers list, her book is nearly number one
Funny how enlightenment books consign humanity to classes and rungs
But I still have my lungs
(repeat chorus)
Verse 3:
Supercalifragilisticultrahyperfundamentalist who forgot the basics
I'm torn between the media distortions and the extremists
Quite a show, pounding that book with your fist
Did you really think that you could tie God's wrists?
(repeat chorus)
Outro: AM and FM and AP and UPI
How much of this make you raise your hand up to the sky?
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TOO UGLY FOR CCM, TOO STUPID FOR TBN by JJ Blair copyright 2002
Chorus:
I’m too ugly for CCM
I’m too stupid for TBN
I ask too many questions and I don’t fit in
All that’s left is say Amen! (Amen)
Verse:
I turn on the radio to hear a little soul
But all I get is a milky scroll
Playlisting salt-free spiritual schtick
I’m too unrefined for your satellite clique
I go to the bookstore to get Beatitudes
But the shelves are full of cute platitudes
Seeking sanctuary away from payola
I ran into a church but it seemed like a casino
Refrain:
You say you don’t care about doctrine at all
Jesus hangs next to you on the wall
As your congregation scurries and shouts
Which Jesus are you singing about?
Chorus 2:
I’m too ugly for CCM
I’m too stupid for TBN
I don’t look like a model and I don’t fit in
All that’s left is say Amen! (Amen)
Verse:
They got thousands of members and 50 million watts
Dropping their tithes like playing the slots
Using Bible words with just enough twist
Give more and God owes you a blessing fix
This gospel is New Age syncretistic
Pass the cash and apply more lipstick
I might be picky, take too many pains
But when did God give us air for brains?
Refrain 2 :
You say you don’t care about doctrine at all
Jesus hangs next to you on the wall
As your congregation scurries and shouts
Which Jesus are you singing about?
Chorus 2:
I’m too ugly for CCM
I’m too stupid for TBN
I read too much and I don’t fit in
All that’s left is say Amen! (Amen)
Verse:
Paul told the Romans leave the world behind
To be transformed and have a testing mind
We have the Holy Book that tells us how
To tell a true prophet from a sacred cow
Your Man of God is beyond reproach
I see Christian bodyguards lining his coach
Modern mega-church it just gives me the willies
I’m just too dum to get these new prophecies
2nd Refrain:
The prophets said the troubles
Come from blowing bubbles
With an illiterate brood
A healing mesmerist
Gives us experience
But what about the truth?
Chorus 3:
I’m too ugly for CCM
I’m too stupid for TBN
I care too much and I don’t fit in
All that’s left is say Amen! (Amen)
All that’s left is say Amen!
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I'm a Jerk
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Johnny J Blair "Singer at Large" San Francisco, California
"Johnny is a virtuoso"--Brian Wilson
"Pop music with a conscience.”--Goldmine
“the Harry Houdini of rock and roll.”--
Spotlight. Listen to Johnny's fast-paced mix of old school soul, psychedelia, punk/new wave, & classic pop/rock. Singer-songwriter in his own right, he was also a sideman for Davy Jones and The Monkees + performed with David Cassidy, Al Stewart, Buddy & Julie Miller, & others.
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