Drink Ring Jesus

Well I thought that I saw Jesus soaked In a drink ring on some magazine And man what’s wrong with me I don’t know Cause I’m too damn young to start seeing things Or so I’m told Well they’re talking on some TV show ’Bout how it’s been a year since they changed everything And man what’s wrong with me I still don’t know Feels like I should care but I just stare at the screen In my work clothes Chorus: Maybe I’m only growing old But I been thinking ’bout changing things And if God should save my soul Then I’ll need my drink ring Jesus To come rescue me If I’m going home Well it’s late and the light of the TV’s on me Hear strange voices, in foreign tongues, incessant ancient chants Always trying to find strength in my time of need And I was looking in this glass when the answer Was right there underneath And I thought something was wrong with me Something wrong with the way that my life had been cast I been looking for signs and things When they were everywhere even under my glass In my drink ring Chorus

There’s gold there in them hills Said the Devil to the preacher And you can help yourselves to all you’ve found It’s all the same to me And you can have your damned ole city man Self-righteous fools out in the street And the gold you found is all around But you just pave the road beneath your feet Chorus: There comes a time To be brave Your soul is mine Now it’s time to pay And I can tell you think you know my friend Just how you’ll handle me Well son Judas thought he was slick too So don’t fool yourself there priest Well if it’s gold or power or flesh you crave Then feast them eyes on me I’ve got enough to go around my child So just sit back in that seat Chorus Well it comes and goes, it ebbs and flows And it gets on you and me It makes a funny sound, but it’s all they’ve found And it’s in the dirt beneath your feet But if it’s love you crave just take it to his grave With the other fools that just don’t see I’ll find another soul who’ll trade his for gold So don’t try that shit on me Chorus

Well I’m out here Out here on the road Seemed to wonder Who’s watching over my soul Feels like I’ve been out here For ten years in a row Lord I wonder Where this road really goes Man I wonder who knows And man I don’t know What makes a man even go Makes a body want to Jeopardize his immortal soul Jesus you sent for All of us in sinner’s clothes God I know you didn’t want to Give up your precious ghost For our petty souls Jesus you sent for All of us in peasants clothes With the skill of a carpenter For our fixer-upper souls And lord I don’t know Just where eternity goes Seems like just yesterday I was washing clean this same soul Sure seems so

Sometime I get so sick of this life Sometimes I think I must be losing my mind Sometimes I wonder why I even still try World leaves me struggling for more air every time Been taking chances with my life Just silly chances wonder how I get by So I keep trying to indulge in this world An excessive cold and lonely ole void to be hurled Chorus: You give us this life, you give us this world You give us each a short time on this earth But only you know how things are gonna turn You give us a choice, you give us your word Been Having problems with my soul Four way stops and don’t know which way to go So I go down each road halfway and turn back I end up nowhere always lost in my tracks Been taking chances with my youth Tried to take the edge off with smoke and booze But I took the edge off so many times That I’m smooth and shapeless till you can’t recognize Chorus But there’s a man in a stained robe up in the air A woman with a child in need of a room and an inn Do we believe, this time will we really care Or will we do it all the same again Chorus Sometimes I get so sick of this life Sometimes I think I must be losing my mind Sometimes I wonder why I even still try Lord come back quickly why there’s still time

He was pretty sure he didn't believe in Heaven But there at the end he wasn’t quite sure And I almost lost that lousy son-of-a-bitch After fifty years of damn hard work Every year they say it should get a little better Cause this world is going straight to Hell But they ain’t never stood on this side of the shovel Hell ain’t a kingdom it’s a hole if you can’t tell Chorus: It looks so easy sounds so damn simple You think these souls fall right outta the sky? Jesus back off, this one’s mine Working all day hustling and a slaving Just another soul somebody thought that they could save Chalk me up another one The Devil’s work is never done You and you’re father think you’re so damn clever With your forgiveness and your talk about love But I’ve been busting my ass and it’s high time You showed some respect for the work I’ve done You cry when you lose them You bleed for every last one A bunch a sore losers Is what I think you’ve become Chorus You guys always seem to get all the good ones The poor and needy downtrodden masses Sometimes the whole deck’s stacked against ‘em But still I can’t break ‘em, their hearts are the truest of the pack Seems like all you ever leave me Are all these poster child souls who think they’re above the fold You know the ones with their high profiles But they got no timber in their souls The famous and the powerful Those Deceitful wagers of wars And all those Goddamned politicians They very ones that evoke your name just for a damn vote Lord Chorus

Oh there’s a cryin’ Elvis Looking down on the stage at me tonight I’m in some random bar In this very un-random life His eyes are squinted His sideburns thick and full Thirty years of hard living Corroded all around his skull Chorus: Jesus they say you’re coming back And that Elvis never left it’s an act But you both left tears down in your tracks Billy Batson yelled Shazam And lightning’d strike him where he'd stand Had Captain Marvel to lend his hand Hardwood boards upon my floor But I can’t feel ‘em anymore Though my bare feet have been exposed Ears are ringing in my head But I heard that rock n’ roll was dead Guess these ole ears have heard too many shows Chorus: But Hank you’re never coming back But the trains still hot upon them tracks And your long gone lonesome daddy’s gone now Jack And Johnny’s gone now that’s a fact The cash is spent with no change back And how can the circle remain intact Boxes in the corner stacked Packed neatly all intact But what good is storage for Milk crates stacked up in there tight My vinyl records slid inside But things don’t sound like they did before Chorus: Natty Bumpo cleared a path out West Through our minds and the wilderness But these days hatchets are worth much less And Captain America helped to win the big war Then got froze and sent up North And woke up to a world he didn’t know no more Oh there’s a cryin’ Elvis Looking down on the stage at me tonight I’m in some random bar In this very un-random life

Oh there’s a house of pain In this bar again But I gotta gallon of pride To keep my humility shy I seek an end to strife To wash down a bitter life So I tried a shot of envy Now I think all things should belong to me Chorus: Oh where’s Texas Pete? When I need a drink Red hot and mean The strangest angel you’ve ever seen It started pissing me off How I always got caught So I mixed up some wrath with anger Dante was no stranger I sipped on a quart of sloth Fell behind and got lost A whole damn keg of carefree Tapped it with some sweet apathy Chorus Bartender was taking too long And he didn’t get my song So I started pouring my own drink And he slapped my hand for my greed Half-gallon jug on the top shelf Took it all for myself I chugged it till there was none For punishment I’m a glutton’ Chorus I saw her in the corner Somebody shoulda warned her Filled my glass with lust Best rush there ever was

All’s quiet on the water Last night’s fog lifts and reveals a Godly mirror It’s early and my mind’s a wandering As I sit out on this porch watching the sun grow nearer Chorus: Well it’s Springtime In the valley And it’s a cold time Till the sun comes o’er the hills But it’s my time To take if I want it But it’s his time That I borrow from Last night I heard you up and walking And you thought your lover was still in deep in his dreams But I lay there and I heard you softly praying And as you sleep off the morning babe I wonder what this all will mean Chorus I’m thirty years old now and I never saw it coming I never thought that I would live to see this day When I’d sit out on my porch and watch the season’s slowly changing I’m thirteen years old again, I guess that nothing’s changed Chorus All’s quiet on the water

Flying through the night no town to be found Smoking these tracks with the hammer down This train is trying to find its way home Picking up people like a lost and found Hitting every depot that’s long been abandoned Man this train is going where we need to go Chorus: So come on all aboard all you sinners This train is leaving the station We may be in Hell tonight But this journey’s only just begun You can leave the things you want behind We can all start anew in that station on high This train is headed for your salvation Oh oh Next stop redemption Don’t matter who you are or where you’ve been Everybody’s welcome to this communion The Lord’s table always has room The blood of mine for the blood of Christ The blood of yours mixes with mine This ole engine can’t get there too soon Chorus 2x

music merch community edit navigation bar Drink Ring Jesus by Stephen Simmons Wishlist supported by Roald Hansen thumbnail Rene Geilenkirchen thumbnail caalek thumbnail jojobroom thumbnail Needle & Spins thumbnail shenks0211 thumbnail lordsummerisle thumbnail tmeldal99 thumbnail tomeldes thumbnail devolution2024 thumbnail abster1967 thumbnail dewimawr thumbnail chrisbveedub thumbnail Dan Stevens thumbnail majstro thumbnail Edit Bulk Edit Drink Ring Jesus 00:00 / 04:52 Edit Record/Vinyl + Digital Album package image package image package image PLEASE NOTE: If you're in the US/Canada, please buy from stephensimmons.bandcamp.com/album/drink-ring-jesus 140g black vinyl inside a poly-lined Kraft inner sleeve. This is held within a printed Kraft card outer sleeve. The insert is 300mm x 300mm and printed full-colour on 250gsm paper with metallic silver ink on one side. It contains a previously unseen image of Stephen, new liner notes, full lyrics and song notes from Stephen. A hand numbered obi strip, also printed in metallic silver, is added and everything is placed inside a poly sleeve. Includes a download code. Includes unlimited streaming of Drink Ring Jesus via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Download available in 16-bit/48kHz. ships out within 5 days edition of 300 £25 GBP or more Edit Record/Vinyl + Digital Album package image package image package image package image PLEASE NOTE: If you're in the US/Canada, please buy from stephensimmons.bandcamp.com/album/drink-ring-jesus 140g black vinyl inside a poly-lined Kraft inner sleeve. This is held within a printed Kraft card outer sleeve. The insert is 300mm x 300mm and printed full-colour on 250gsm paper with metallic silver ink on one side. It contains a previously unseen image of Stephen, new liner notes, full lyrics and song notes from Stephen. A hand numbered obi strip, also printed in metallic silver, is added and everything is placed inside a poly sleeve. Includes a download code. A specially commissioned linocut print by UK... more ships out within 5 days edition of 30 1 remaining £45 GBP or more Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Download available in 16-bit/48kHz. £7 GBP or more 1. Drink Ring Jesus 04:52 2. Time To Pay 03:10 3. Carpenter Skills 03:05 4. You Give Us 04:17 5. Devil's Work Is Never Done 04:41 6. Cryin' Elvis 03:13 7. Dante's Blues No.7 03:24 8. His Time 04:18 9. Next Stop Redemption 04:00 10. Long Way To Go 05:02 You can run for the hills Or the cover that darkness gives You can run wherever your poor heart desires You can run till you’re weary From the darkness within ye But pretty soon you’ll soon be looking up higher You can run from the dealer Give up your seat at his table sir But sooner or later he’ll deal you in Cause you can’t run from your maker This world’s sweet, but you can’t take her With you if you’re following him Chorus: But oh oh Don’t give up on my soul Oh oh Just got a long way to go You can walk down that aisle Get down on your knees child Stare down and face the congregation Or you can get down on your knees In your bedroom if it pleases you And beg for the power of redemption Or the power to change The power to remain Give you strength in bold new ways Cause these things that will lead you In this world man can teach you But there’ll come an end to these earthly days Chorus And I heard somebody say You gotta walk that lonesome valley On your own just to prove your worth And before all that be inspired Some medieval sorcerer had conspired In a dusty old book from the old world And before all of that I heard “I am that I am” And “As a man thinketh so is he” And I guess everybody’s saying The same things in different ways As I am right now so let’s all agree Chorus But oh oh Don't give up on our souls Yes oh oh We just got a long way to go