Jesus The Missing Years-John Prine

[ti:Jesus The Missing Years] [ar:John Prine] [al:The Missing Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jesus The Missing Years - John Prine [00:00.32]Jesus [00:01.12] [00:03.07]The missing years [00:04.71] [00:21.44]It was raining it was cold [00:23.12] [00:24.40]West bethlehem was [00:25.59]No place for a twelve year old [00:27.31] [00:28.12]So he packed his bags and he headed out [00:30.14] [00:30.96]To find out what the world's about [00:33.00] [00:34.43]He went to france [00:35.77]He went to spain [00:36.86] [00:37.60]He found love [00:38.64]He found pain [00:39.86] [00:40.87]He found stores [00:41.93]So he started to shop [00:43.43] [00:44.01]He had no money [00:44.99]So he got in trouble with a cop [00:46.65] [00:49.16]Kids in trouble with the cops [00:50.48]From israel didn't have no home [00:52.21] [00:53.63]So he cut his hair and moved to rome [00:55.44] [00:56.67]It was there he met his irish bride [00:58.63] [00:59.49]They rented a flat [01:00.47]On the lower east side [01:01.82] [01:02.43]Of rome [01:03.35] [01:05.72]Italy that is [01:06.88] [01:13.55]Music publishers [01:14.91] [01:16.90]Book binders [01:17.82] [01:19.63]Bible belters [01:20.67] [01:22.14]Swimen books [01:23.88]Money changers [01:24.72] [01:25.35]And lots of pretty italian chicks [01:27.38] [01:30.77]Charley bought some popcorn [01:32.59] [01:34.03]Billy bought a car [01:35.59] [01:36.84]Someone almost bought the farm [01:39.64]But they didn't go that far [01:41.89] [01:42.94]Things shut down at midnight [01:45.14] [01:45.98]At least 'round here they do [01:48.24] [01:48.93]'Cause we all reside down the block inside [01:52.38] [01:53.00]23 skidoo [01:54.83] [01:57.80]Wine was flowing [01:58.89]So were beers [02:00.05] [02:00.68]So jesus found his missing years [02:02.97] [02:04.12]He went to a dance and said this don't move me [02:06.63] [02:07.39]He hiked up his pants and he went to a movie [02:09.71] [02:12.31]On his thirteenth birthday he saw 'Rebel without a cause' [02:15.20] [02:16.20]He went straight on home and invented santa claus [02:19.13] [02:19.95]Who gave him a gift [02:21.25]He responded in kind [02:22.71] [02:23.45]He gave the gift of love went out of his mind [02:25.94] [02:28.20]You see him and the wife wasn't getting along [02:30.68] [02:32.00]So he took out his guitar and he wrote a song [02:34.47] [02:35.51]Called the dove of love fell off the perch [02:38.38] [02:39.73]But he couldn't get divorced in the catholic church [02:42.34] [02:43.18]At least not back then anyhow [02:44.84] [02:46.09]Jesus was a good guy [02:47.64] [02:49.29]He didn't need this sh*t [02:50.48] [02:52.51]So he took a pill [02:54.09]A coca cola [02:55.27] [02:55.79]He swallowed it [02:56.96] [02:58.93]He discovered the beatles [03:00.39] [03:02.03]He recorded with the stones [03:03.98] [03:05.60]Once he even opened up a three way package for [03:08.66]Old george jones [03:10.27] [03:12.20]Charley bought some popcorn [03:13.97] [03:15.39]Billy bought a car [03:16.96] [03:18.10]Someone almost bought the farm [03:21.06]But they didn't go that far [03:23.26] [03:24.31]Things shut down at midnight [03:26.63] [03:27.43]At least 'round here they do [03:29.71] [03:30.52]'Cause we all reside down the block inside [03:33.69] [03:34.45]23 skidoo [03:36.18] [03:42.21]The years went by like sweet little days [03:45.02] [03:45.94]With babies crying pork chops and beaujolais [03:48.87] [03:49.87]And he woke up he was seventeen [03:51.94] [03:52.82]The world was angry [03:54.40]The world was mean [03:55.45] [03:57.75]Why the [03:58.45] [03:59.20]Man down the street [04:00.93]The kid on the stoop [04:02.06] [04:02.80]All agreed that life's stank [04:04.68]All the world smelled like poop [04:06.51] [04:07.64]Baby poop that is [04:08.86] [04:09.87]The worst kind [04:10.94] [04:14.45]So he grew his hair long threw away his comb [04:16.94] [04:17.54]Headed back to jerusalem to find mom and dad home [04:20.60] [04:22.00]But when he got there the cupboard was bare [04:24.31]Except for an old black man with a fishing rod [04:26.74] [04:27.56]He said what you gonna be when you grow up [04:29.45] [04:29.95]Jesus said god [04:31.54] [04:33.73]Oh my god what have I gotten myself into [04:36.78]I'm a human corkscrew all my wine is blood [04:39.77] [04:40.85]They're gonna kill me mama [04:42.21] [04:43.54]They don't like me bud [04:45.10] [04:48.84]So jesus went to heaven [04:50.21] [04:51.99]He went there awful quick [04:53.67] [04:55.32]All them people killed him [04:56.86] [04:58.59]They weren't even sick [04:59.91] [05:01.68]So come and gather around me [05:03.37] [05:04.85]My contemporary peers [05:06.65] [05:08.20]I'll tell you all the story [05:09.92]Of jesus [05:10.84] [05:11.91]The missing years [05:13.13] [05:14.88]Charley bought some popcorn [05:17.04] [05:18.12]Billy bought a car [05:19.77] [05:20.86]Someone almost bought the farm [05:23.56]But they didn't go that far [05:25.87] [05:26.85]Things shut down at midnight [05:29.30] [05:30.13]At least 'round here they do [05:32.34] [05:33.04]'Cause we all reside down the block inside at [05:36.61] [05:37.20]23 skidoo [05:38.80] [05:41.36]We all reside down the block inside at [05:45.01]23 skidoo