Vídeo da música
Vídeo da música
Créditos
INTERPRETAÇÃO
John Prine
Vocais
COMPOSIÇÃO E LETRA
John Prine
Composição
PRODUÇÃO E ENGENHARIA
Howie Epstein
Produção
Joe Romersa
Engenharia
Letra
[Verse 1]
Jesus: The Missing Years
It was raining
It was cold
West Bethlehem
Was no place for a twelve-year-old
[Verse 2]
So he packed his bag
And he headed out
To find out what the world's about
He went to France
He went to Spain
He found love
He found pain
He found stores
So he started to shop
He had no money
So he got in trouble with a cop
[Verse 3]
Kids in trouble with the cops from Israel
Didn't have no home
So he cut his hair
And moved to Rome
It was there he met his Irish bride
And they rented a flat
On the lower east side
Of Rome
Italy, that is
Music publishers
Book binders
Bible belters
Swimmin' pools
Orgies
And lotsa pretty Italian chicks
[Verse 4]
Charlie bought some popcorn
Billy bought a car
Someone almost bought the farm
But they didn't go that far
Things shut down at midnight
Least 'round here they do
'Cause we all reside down the block
Inside at twenty-three skidoo
[Verse 5]
Wine was flowin'
So were beers
So Jesus found his missing years
He went to a dance
And said, "This don't move me"
He hiked up his pants
And he went to a movie
[Verse 6]
On his thirteenth birthday
He saw Rebel Without a Cause
He went straight on home
And invented Santa Claus
Who gave him a gift
And he responded in kind
He gave the gift of love
And went out of his mind
[Verse 7]
You see, uh, him and the wife
Wasn't gettin' along
So he took out his guitar
And he wrote a song
Called "The Dove of Love Fell off the Perch"
But he couldn't get divorced
In the Catholic Church
At least not back then, anyhow
[Verse 8]
Jesus was a good guy
He didn't need this shit
So he took a pill with a Coca-Cola
And he swallowed it
He discovered the Beatles
And he recorded with the Stones
Once he even opened up
A three-way package
For old George Jones
[Verse 9]
And Charlie bought the popcorn
Billy bought a car
Someone almost bought the farm
But they didn't go that far
Things shut down at midnight
At least 'round here they do
'Cause we all reside down the block
Inside at twenty-three skidoo
[Verse 10]
The years passed by
Like sweet little days
With babies cryin', pork chops and Beaujolais
When he woke up he was seventeen
The world was angry
The world was mean
Why, the man down the street
And the kid on the stoop
All agreed that life stank
All the world smelled like poop
Baby poop, that is
The worst kind
[Verse 11]
So he grew his hair long
And he threw away his comb
Headed back to Jerusalem
To find Mom and Dad and home
[Verse 12]
But when he got there
The cupboard was bare
Except for an old black man
With a fishin' rod
He said, "What you gonna be
"When you grow up?"
Jesus said, "God"
[Verse 13]
"Oh my God
"What have I gotten myself into?!
"I'm a human corkscrew
"And all my wine is blood
"They're gonna kill me, Mama
"They don't like me, Bud"
[Verse 14]
So Jesus went to Heaven
And he went there awful quick
All them people killed him
And he wasn't even sick
So come and gather 'round me
My contemporary peers
And I'll tell you all the story
Of "Jesus: The Missing Years"
[Verse 15]
Charlie bought some popcorn
Billy bought a car
Someone almost bought the farm
But they didn't go that far
And things shut down at midnight
At least 'round here they do
'Cause we all reside down the block
Inside at twenty-three skidoo
[Verse 16]
We all reside down the block
Inside at twenty-three skidoo
Written by: John Prine
