John Prine《Jesus the Missing Years》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [01:17.95]Jesus the missing years [01:27.97]It was raining it was cold [01:30.95]West Bethlehem was [01:31.97]No place for a twelve year old [01:35.88]So he packed his bags and he headed out [01:38.94]To find out what the world's about [01:43.58]He went to France [01:44.49]He went to Spain [01:46.65]He found love [01:47.33]He found pain [01:49.85]He found stores [01:50.95]So he started to shop [01:53.11]He had no money [01:53.97]So he got in trouble with a cop [01:57.88]Kids in trouble with the cops [01:58.96]From Israel didn't have no home [02:01.77]So he cut his hair and moved to Rome [02:04.86]It was there he met his Irish bride [02:07.62]And they rented a flat [02:08.59]On the lower east side [02:10.68]Of Rome [02:13.82]Italy that is [02:17.50]Music publishers [02:18.81]Book binders [02:20.20]Bible belters [02:21.80]Money changers [02:23.05]Spoon benders [02:24.68]And lots of pretty Italian chicks [02:29.99]Charley bought some popcorn [02:32.59]Billy bought a car [02:35.35]Someone almost bought the farm [02:37.86]But they didn't go that far [02:40.97]And things shut down at midnight [02:43.84]At least 'round here they do [02:46.74]'Cause we all reside down the block inside [02:50.29]23 skidoo [02:54.90]Wine was flowing so were beers [02:57.72]So Jesus found his missing years [03:00.80]He went to a dance and said this don't move me [03:03.95]So he hiked up his pants and he went to a movie [03:09.15]On his thirteenth birthday he saw Rebel without a cause' [03:13.38]He went straight on home and invented Santa Claus [03:18.14]Who gave him a gift and he responded in kind [03:21.06]He gave the gift of love went out of his mind [03:25.42]You see him [03:26.67]And the wife wasn't getting along [03:29.59]So he took out his guitar and he wrote a song [03:32.78]Called 'The dove of love fell off the perch' [03:35.99]But he couldn't get divorced in the catholic church [03:40.16]At least not back then any how [03:45.62]Jesus was a good guy [03:47.67]He didn't need this sh*t [03:50.41]So he took a pill with a bag of peanuts and [03:52.24]A coca cola and he swallowed it [03:54.94]He discovered the beatles [03:57.42]He recorded with the stones [04:00.47]Once he even opened up a three way package [04:02.31]In southern California for old George Jones [04:08.35]And Charley bought some popcorn [04:11.27]Billy bought a car [04:13.92]Someone almost bought the farm [04:16.50]But they didn't go that far [04:19.46]And things shut down at midnight [04:22.52]At least 'round here they do [04:25.16]'Cause we all reside down the block inside [04:28.78]23 skidoo [04:33.47]The years went by like sweet little days [04:36.43]With babies crying pork chops and beaujolais [04:39.64]When he woke up [04:40.59]He was seventeen [04:42.51]The world was angry [04:43.73]The world was mean [04:47.17]Why the man down the street the kid on the stoop [04:50.92]All agreed that life's stank all the world smelled like poop [04:55.18]Baby poop that is [04:57.63]The worst kind [05:02.13]So he grew his hair long threw away his comb [05:04.82]Headed back to Jerusalem to find mom dad and home [05:08.06]But when he got there the cupboard was bare [05:10.94]Except for an old black man with a fishing rod [05:13.90]He said what you gonna be when you grow up [05:16.46]Jesus said God [05:19.66]Oh my God what have I gotten myself into [05:21.56]I'm a human corkscrew all my wine is blood [05:25.69]They're gonna kill me mama [05:27.76]They don't like me bud [05:32.91]So Jesus went to heaven [05:35.84]He went there awful quick [05:38.85]All them people killed him [05:41.87]They weren't even sick [05:44.89]So come and gather around me [05:47.82]My contemporary peers [05:50.84]And I'll tell you all the story of Jesus [05:54.23]The missing years [05:58.41]Charley bought some popcorn [06:01.19]And Billy bought a car [06:03.95]Someone almost bought the farm [06:06.65]But they didn't go that far [06:09.59]And things shut down at midnight [06:12.58]At least 'round here they do [06:15.17]'Cause we all reside down the block inside at [06:18.77]23 skidoo [06:22.80]We all reside down the block inside at [06:25.97]23 skidoo