Resurrection

Album: Snake Farm

Resurrection

Written by Al Grierson 1996

Published by Snake Farm Publishing (SESAC)

Administered by Bug Music

 

There was something heavy coming down

Like Easter in the air

And he woke up Sunday morning

With some flowers in his hair

 

Looking like he face of Jesus in his final agony

That they found in that old winding sheet off in Italy

He was long gone, he was gone when they rolled away the stone

 

Something had come a shining in that smoky little room

Lit up like a thousand candles in a Middle Eastern tomb

An angel lay on the mattress and spoke history and death

With perfume on her lingerie and whiskey on her breath

He was long gone he was gone when they rolled away the stone

 

And they found him in the desert picking flowers for the muse

Sometimes he’s a fire, sometimes he’s a fuse

He’s loading up his saddlebags out on the edge of wonder

One is filled with music the others filled with thunder

He was long gone he was gone when they rolled away the stone

 

Well I never thought to ask him but the thought seemed mighty slim

That if he ever much believed in God

Or God believed in him

But they both believed in a woman

And the truth that set him free

Now he wonders in confusion

For he’s lost his poetry

And He was long gone he was gone when they rolled away the stone

 

And they found him in the desert picking flowers for the muse

Sometimes he’s a fire, sometimes he’s a fuse

He’s loading up his saddlebags out on the edge of wonder

One is filled with music the others filled with thunder

He was long gone he was gone when they rolled away the stone

He was long gone he was gone when they rolled away the stone

He was long gone he was gone when they rolled away the stone

 

 

 

RWH – vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine

Gurf Morlix – vocals, electric guitar

George Reiff – bass

Rick Richards – drums, percussion

Ray Bonneville – harmonica

Ruthie foster – vocals