Chicken Fried Cats- Gospell Song LIVE @ The Brass Rail 4/14/23

Christ came down to pass the crown around
to anyone who’d get down and live forever
He said “die here today and quit waiting away your days,
dissolve into the place from whence you came”

Look now at the birds and lilies—is it silly that they do not work?
And at the end of the day, are you angry at the lazy jerks?
For following good weather and pruning their pretty feathers
Trading in their words and letters to make a joyful noise

Forgive and be forgiven, love is its own reward
Good lord watches us from the inside, no one gets ignored
The first coming’s not thru and the second can never come true
Unless we, I mean me and you, we all come too

The judge that won’t budge when bringing down his sword
Subjects himself to the whims of the hateful hordes
Thank heavens that the spell casting the fires of hell
Is extinguished in the well of our welcome

Christ he came down and passed the hat around
Laying low to the ground don’t you miss his gaze
Still raising the dead with nowhere to lay is head
Were you listening when he said he’d been here all along