“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God,
…you have my prayers, my wink, salute and a nod!”
Can’t go wrong if you at least try,
in the future your dreams will make you fly,
and every fork in the road will make you sigh,
but keep on *truckin’ cause you’ll get by,
and end up happy before you die-eye...
When I sailed off the world from the Keys,
Janus and Cybele didn’t bother me,
the river of pain and hate you see,
-angry Charon screaming for his fee.
The moon his eyes, his gaze you see,
the crescent his boat they call a fer-ry,
the three-headed dog, it barked at me,
thunderous clouds, they rocked the sea,
I prayed for Jesus to comfort me,
reaching heaven at the shores of 'Gal-Li-Lee-e...'
At the top of the Tower we all spoke the same 'langa-guage' you see?
and Jesus said, “You know we just call it 'spirit-tual-lity','
I turned to him and said,
“Old friend, you ain’t gotta waste no time on me.”
I’m just gonna kick back here a bit, and stare out at that sea!”
And he replied just as quick,
“Remember the Beast and stormy seas and that angry captain who yelled at thee?”
“It wasn’t yet time for you to go, you left something undone didn’t you know?”
Just then I heard the cries and wails,
I jumped back in my boat and loosed the sails,
the winds picked-up and drove my ark,
as I set sail out in to the dark...
And Jesus called out, beckoned me,
“Fare thee well on your jour-ney!”
I had gotten everything I wanted in life,
a home, three kids and a beautiful wife...
I felt I was fulfilled inside and it was proper if I died!
But Father made me 'real-a-lize' it was not about me but what I’d left behind.
That journey back was harder than I’d thought,
fraught with peril and that ****** dog!
I must make it back to my 'fam-mil-ly' and this **** storm won’t be the end of me!
I saw them there out on the beach,
as Charon’s ship slammed into me,
his Dragon-dog’s flames burned my ship
-so I jumped overboard and swam for it,
I woke up to my wife staring down at me,
-our three little Indians peaceful and fast asleep,
“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God!
My prayers, my wink, salute and my nod,"
“I know there’s more to life than what I got and I’ll do better if you gimme a shot. What I have and my own strife, wife and children and the family life in this journey it was never about me and that’s the thing I didn’t ever see.”
Wife and kids and 'fam-mil-ly,'
trials, tribulations and stormy seas,
the book and faith, 'spirit-tual-lity,'
are what a man’s life, -is supposed to be,
“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God!
You have my prayers, my wink, salute and my nod!
Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God,
…for my family, my life and all I’ve got.”
“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God!”
“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God!”
“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God!”
*“Thank You Jesus and blessed-be God!”
Set in my mind to a music of The Dead...much of life is.