See if you can find the Johnny Cash/U2 version of this song --- I think you'd like it.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
>
> I went out walking thru the streets paved with gold
> lifted some stones, saw the skins and bones
> of a city without a soul
>
> I went walking under an atomic sky
> where the ground won't turn and the rain it burns
> like the tears when I said goodbye
>
> Yeah, I went with nothin'
> nothin' but the thought of you
> I went wanderin'
>
> I went driftin' thru the capitals of tin
> where men can't walk or freely talk
> and sons turn their fathers in
>
> I stopped outside a church house
> where the citizens like to sit
> they say they want the Kingdom
> but they don't want God in it
>
> I went out ridin' down that ol' eight lane
> I passed by a thousand signs
> lookin' for my own name
>
> I went with nothin'
> but the thought you'd be there too
> lookin' for you
>
> I went out searchin' lookin' for one good man
> a spirit who would not bend or break
> who could sit at his Father's right hand
>
> I went out walkin' with a bible and a gun
> the word of God lay heavy on my heart
> I was sure I was the one
>
> Now Jesus, don't you wait up
> Jesus, I'll be home soon
> Yeah, I went out for a paper
> told you I'd be back by noon
>
> Yeah, I went with nothin'
> nothin' but the thought of you
> I went wanderin'
>
