Name: Born Again
Duration: P00H03M55S
Description: What happens when you love someone, but they're on a different plane than you? Do you just let them ride that golden chariot up into the clouds alone, or do you go on an epic journey of spiritual discovery–just to realize none of it makes any goddamn sense to you and all you really want is to be next to that special human again? That's what this song is about.

Born Again

from The Joke Isn't Funny But It Goes Like This by Pierce Murphy

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What happens when you love someone, but they're on a different plane than you? Do you just let them ride that golden chariot up into the clouds alone, or do you go on an epic journey of spiritual discovery–just to realize none of it makes any goddamn sense to you and all you really want is to be next to that special human again? That's what this song is about.

lyrics

I walk myself down the sand searching for a sign
But lo and behold
There on the beach did I see your footprints next to mine
But you just gave me back my key
And said, "I'll pray for you..."

Goddamn it
I don't want no cosmic solicitor
I'm just tryna fall in love
But some Blue Boy with the famous Dad already got to her
Now you're telling me that JHC took my baby away

Why you tryna be born again when you turned out so good the first time?
Why you tryna be heavenly when all I got is sin on my mind?
Yeah I'm tryna be good, saying my prayers
I turn around and nobody there
I'm tryna be saved, but you ain't saved for me

If my character is so bankrupt that I can't even get my spirit up
Then I better get myself in line
I met a priest and a rabbi and a monk at a bar but we took
A few too many shots of Cynar and I don't
Recall a goddamn thing they said to me

I got sage burning out on a quartz ashtray
And the shaman gave me Covid blowing smoke in my face
And if I could taste it, then the bitter irony
Is that the only time I felt a kind of reprieve
Is when I paid for a flight to that very same beach
Where you told me, "Baby, you ain't afterlife material."

Why you tryna be born again when you turned out so good the first time?
Why you tryna be heavenly when all I got is sin on my mind?
Yeah I'm tryna be good, saying my prayers
I turn around and nobody there
I'm tryna be saved, but you ain't saved for me

You ain't saved for me

God bless you