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Outer Space Jesus

VERSE 1

I was the son of the man on the moon.
Flew into space, on a hot-air balloon.
Met with Jesus on a comet said "Here's what I pray:
Don't come tomorrow, I'm a sinner today." (2x)

At a sock hop with angels, jitterbugged with the wind.
Talked of storm-chasing mysteries that God won't defend.
Then the chaperone inside with the platinum soul
Said "I'll be at your place tomorrow, be ready to go." (2x)

CHORUS

Outer Space Jesus don't take it away.
I wanna' stay stoned on this paper mache.
But tomorrow I promise my will can be strong...
Until then find what's Holy in the outlaw's theme song (2x)

VERSE 2

I traveled in shadows and lived by the light
Of hung-over stars at the end of their fight.
And before lovers leave, I watch them brush their hair.
I say "Just 10 more minutes” but they never stay there. (2x)

CHORUS (2x)

Outer Space Jesus, I don't know why
I like whiskey and the way that bad girls make me cry.
But tomorrow I promise my will can be strong…
Until then find what's Holy in the outlaw's theme song.
VERSE 3

Now my life's a bullet in the bark of a tree
Stuck but still stoned on its first energy.
When an outer space carpenter cut the tree down.
Took me as the timber to build a Holy Ghost town.

CHORUS (2x)

Outer Space Jesus makes art from the trash.
A wrist half-cut opened filled with cigarette ash.
Tomorrow I promise my will won't be strong...
‘Cause a child is loved for his rights and his wrongs.

credits

from Funeral Songs, track released May 6, 2016
Written by: T.J. Volgare

T.J. Volgare - Lead Vocals
David Staples - Rhythm Guitar
Simpson Eason - Drums
Steven DeConto - Bass
Michael DePue - Lead Guitar
Paula Hardy - Additional Vocals, Piano, Organ.

Produced, Tracked, and Mixed Live by Ryan Pickett at "Pickett's Gym" in Durham, N.C.

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St. Anthony and The Mystery Train Durham, North Carolina

A band of storytellers taking cues from the magical realism of Tom Waits, the free-associations of Bob Dylan, and the misfit spirituals of Johnny Cash. The stories inside the music are best described as a stream of Southern-Gothic consciousness, short pieces of theatre in which every musician, playing a combination of garage rock, blues, & country, is a "character." ... more

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