I Was There

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  Take my advice
  It doesn't get easier watching the golden orbs floating out of the bars
  And into space there's Frank Sinatra on the Juke box
  Pause in the ketchup your face in the reflection in the mirror

  He walked through the rocks, you know
  He walked through the scorpion dust
  He walks on the beach and now he walks
  And he keeps walking 'til he's out of reach
  Every generation watches the princes of their nation
  File away until the Son of Man every, every Madonna means so little to the next one
  We ran together down the Santa Monica Boulevard oh baby
  You look so hard, so fine
  And my second-hand capella all that night I said Oo hoo...I said Oo hoo oo hoo

  There you are in your write dress shirt most of all I think I loved your hands
  I loved them so much that it hurt and all the bartenders knew your name
  And all the pimps knew your car and we lay by the Nazz
  And we were blessed yes, we are
  You tell them I was there hey I was there man I was there
  When Jesus walked I was there when Jesus walked

  Now I don't know what happened, what happened was Babylon and that little Sheba
  With her siren song and the planets swirling
  Where no one's ugly and everyone's square no one's ugly and everyone's square
  There's no such place I heard such peach when he played those traps
  I heard such peace when He looked out at the map
  And it ran through me and echoed into another time and space and place
  And it ran through me way on back in time way on up is fine
  Way one back in time was on up is fine way on back in time
  Take my advice and go throw it away it's gonna do you no good until you blow for good
  Cause you are there man you are there don't you know
  You are there where Jesus walked, every generation, yeah the princes of their nation
  Well, I'm ugly, too. No, no you're not beautiful, no, you're ugly too
  Cause you've been travelling in so many universes and you manifest here
  It's difficult to see who you are
  Brother I didn't realize that you were talking to me until you broke that bread and I saw that you were
  Where have you been that you don't know what's been going on here in Jerusalem
  Haven't you heard, haven't you heard about the Nazarene, you know
  We thought we were gonna set Israel free.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  
  

I Was There sessions, 2006.