Wishing Well

Stop your wishing and hoping

Get on up and get on going, brother, don't you know

If you want some satisfaction

Put your dreaming into action in your working clothes

You won't ever move a mountain

Pitching pennies in a fountain from your easy chair

With just a cup of water

In the name of God the Father, you can do your share

That wishing well's all taking and no giving back

That kind of life ain't living, that's a cold hard fact

Right smack dab out in the middle of the pits of hell

There's a big ol' empty hole they call the wishing well

And did I forget to mention

That a world of good intentions wouldn't help you none

Gotta get yourself to moving

Gotta get yourself to doing what you should have done

Do yourself a little favor

Cross the street and help a neighbor, you can't ever tell

You know that you've got plenty

And this sure beats pitching pennies in a wishing well

Are you lifting, are you leaning?

It's time you learn the meaning of a better life

If you need a guarantee

This simple recipe has stood the test of time

Jesus died to save the lost

And it took a rugged cross and some rusty nails

His blood could make you whole

So don't you ever sow down that wishing well

That wishing well's all taking and no giving back

That kind of life ain't living, that's a cold hard fact

Right smack dab out in the middle of the pits of hell

There's a big ol' empty hole they call the wishing well

That wishing well's all taking and no giving back

That kind of life ain't living, that's a cold hard fact

Right smack dab out in the middle of the pits of hell

There's a big ol' empty hole they call the wishing well

That devil's gonna fail

Down in the pits of hell

And wind up in that hole they call the wishing well

Yeah, he's gonna get him