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I've found the lyrics for Texas Jerusalem Crossroads..... (really long post)

dead_fred [Edit] [Delete] 16:23, 6 September '07

After much digging on the internets, i found this site.
http://intothestorm.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi

You need to sign up before you can read any posts though, so signed up and have copied the lyrics in here.

Any who's interested, here they are:

Part one - Texas:

Just As Was Told

This is the story of the three Texas boys busy mindin'
their own bidnis when the Angel of the Lord appeared unto them
saying " When the Winston Churchill's start firin' their Winston
rifles into the sky from the Lone Star State, drinkin' their Lone
Star beer and smoking their Winston cigarettes. You know the time is
drawin' nigh when the sun shall be lifted on high."
We told them that didn't sound very Sunday-go-ta-meetin. "What do
you expect?" they said. "When God calls the crippled deaf and blind
to lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land"
The children of Israel we asked?" "Don't you boys know nothing? ?
The USA's the center of Jerusalem"

I hear the train a-coming

I know not, even with friends reaching out
My thoughts have escaped
So try and rest till I trample walls over, until land dries
Even now dark times have infiltrated so,
We ask you with inhibitions to heed.
Breathe Lord on our desperate attempts now,
Deliver freedom in response.

Experience a new death, victory awaits
Prophets on risen stars
Open fierce skies make onlookers kneel.

Experiencing a new death indeed.

(w/megaphone) Now my young hero's everywhere advance rapidly towards Texas
Here at the troop headquarters enlist,
dispatched angels remain knelt
(wo/megaphone)

Enduring rainy days and you will overcome until land dries.

Stretch out our nights been easy under prophets orders.
Now until stars align lay low.
Just as was told

We are here at last And all the prophesies of old shall come to ??.

Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
Just as was told justice will unfold
The truth be told it will unfold.

Down Came The Angels

What's that in the sky shining silver, shimmering sleek?
A star, a star is born
Down came the angels from heaven up above, oh.
Drunk on the passion and the fragrance of song
With feathered wings flapping upon the wind
To my door they did descend quietly a knock
"Forgive the intrusion but we've traversed so far"
(We're) three wise men who seek a star
(We) came down from heaven from the throne room of grace
Where the counsel of the most high sent us so, (to) speak in their place
We seek shelter from the storm on the horizon
(Spoken) Can you give us what we seek, give me shelter for my friends and I?
"What I have I give unto you, all I have is this humble abode
And you're welcome to rest here, (if) I may be so bold,
tell me what it was that was said, just as was told."

"Fair enough my friend, (we) would hate to keep you unaware."
"Then do come in and let me entertain you, well don't hesitate, out with it now
I'm in earnest, pray tell. What was it that was spoken, that my soul will sit well?

"My son it's a bit complicated, you see
To say what was said, is nothing easy
They seek a seer to ride the sea
To crash the tide (and) protect the free
They want a watch man up on the wall (to) sound the alarm."

(Spoken) What sort of someone does the council now seek?

"My son they didn't say, they gave us the message and they sent us on our way.
All we know is to follow the star, and the star did set over this
meager barn that you inhabit and you're not what we expected all covered in shit

We're just the messengers and we know far better than to try to interpret
Only we deliver this message to Council of God, that in exchange for all these things
God will bless the man with angel wings, (to) fly above (and) see beyond,
I mortalise his words and give him power over the curse to call or calm the storms

(Spoken) But my son if you want God to bring about these strange and wildest things,
He requires a cost that you must count as loss, if you want those angel wings
In exchange for all these things, He requires something that's already quite his
"What? What does he ask?"
"In exchange for the wings He requires, your life for this."

Falling From Cloud 9

Rising to the top knowing I must fall
Re-feather the wings, salt the stings to remake the crawl to the top
And then take the fall again

Blood soaked, gagged and choked, lined face on stone, stripped bare, sucking in air
This is my home it seems, with the rock and the hard places stuck between

The God man Christ cause cursed man to the test
And this God damned cross crushed into my chest I'm still doing my best.

And so the wintertime comes calling
Through the skies I'm crawling from cloud nine I've fallen
And then the foolish times rush in
It's no longer mine life on cloud nine

Place your dreams in a bottle, smash it to the ground
Slip off your slippers and dance all around
Its blood baby, it's just blood baby, it's just blood baby
It's just your precious blood

I've come this far and I said I'd go all the way
But these fevered winds sway stronger each day
Yeah I'm fool's gold and my heart's not right
But I'd still sell what's left of my soul
Just to pay the tithe

Shot down in the glory of my prime
Only to find the bullets were divine
So don't speak to me of heavens above
Because cloud nine is where I've fallen from

Carry on, the wayward son
The way that lovers do

With Crippled Wings

Yeah the storms will surely come,
(as) sure as the sun sets in the sky it shall be done
From that city on the hill,
we're gonna to wait it out till the winds do still
At the pay-for-view for the chosen few,
yeah, the storms are gonna come, sure as the setting sun

All aboard the engine number nine,
those bound for the Jordan our Texas state line
Here at the shelter for the saints,
you'll find rest for the weary and the faint
Dry amidst the deluge inside our city of refuge

From Athens to London to Paris to Rhome,
the stars are going to shine, from here to Palestine
(Spoken) When the angels take flight
deep from the heart of a dark Texas night

So begins the exodus to the land of the unclouded day
With blood bought ticket in your hand, carving out a `trail of tears' along the way.
Traveling, ever homeward under (a) crippled, angry, new America
Traveling, ever homeward under (a) crippled, angry, new America

On that railroad underground those bound for Texas till that great whistle sounds
And if the train does jump the tracks,
don't think for a second that you're getting your money back
(Spoken) No exchanges, no refunds
Onward on foot until you see the rise of the Texas son
(New America, new America, our song)

And if you make it over the Jordan, you still have to make it through the night
And if you reach the Holy City, it won't be without a fight

And at that final resting place
We shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty's saving grace
And when the bough does break
Under the Bible Belt we're safe
Well there'll be no hitting allowed
From a single storm cloud

From Athens to London to Paris to Rhome
The stars are going to shine
From here to Palestine
When the angels take flight
Deep from the heart of the dark Texas night
With crippled wings

Waiting To Hit

In the morning glow with the light so low the day begins as night sheds her skin
In the aftermath of the long dark past, I'm beginning to see the light
Through drunken days and spinning scenes
The lifting of weight that God's freedom brings
Till genius awakes
With hung-over shakes and remembers the dreams once more
Tossed from bed to floor

Sometime, somewhere just when you think it couldn't get any worse
It'll hit you unaware
(Spoken) And you'll realize
It sure as hell won't get any better

So tune into the radio
And listen to the words we say
Tune into the TV show
(Spoken) Where we will appear to show you the way
Homeward to the Promised Land

And the stars did align in 1999
We're getting ready for the moment to shine
With love, star struck
(Spoken) On the front of a storm, we shall be born, under the red
and the blue and the white
These angels will take flight

Sometime, somewhere just when you think it couldn't get any worse
It'll hit you unaware
(Spoken) And you'll realize it's going to get far worse before it gets better

So turn your heads to the starry skies above
Give those sore eyes a sight
When a host of heavenly Angels takes flight
With crippled wings and songs to sing

(Spoken) Just a stupid ranch hand in a Texas rock band
Trying to understand God's master plan.

When the Lord said
"Son! Tell the world before it explodes, the glory of the Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads"
I said "Lord, I make you a deal; I will,
if you give me a smash hit so I can build a`city on the hill'"
And he said "Son! I will if you will "
I said "My Sweet Lord, it's a deal "

Waiting to hit with crippled wings, waiting to hit with songs to sing
Waiting to hit the silver screen, waiting to hit the scene

So we approach the grand conclusion when the world receives its retribution
On the eve of our destruction, standing on the edge looking over
Waiting to hit the center stage at such a golden and tender age
Shot forth out of the miry clay cuttin' all the corners along the way
Born in a manger covered in afterbirth
We're taking her for all she's worth,
with the stars above, lone star below,
upon the Earth a star is born

The Ground So Soft

Lord rescue me, place your hands underneath my wings and lift me up above the raging sea,
and carry me to your shore Place my body upon the rocks, where the farthest I can fall is to the ground so soft
And in the coming age, when the waters rage help me to clearly see above the sea, Lord.
Lord you ask so much, for someone with so little to give,
this ain't my life and it never will be I'm just trying to endure the sea,
(Lord.?)

(Spoken) If you choose to let me sink to the floor
Of this ocean's bed
And let the waves come crashing down
Up above my head
I'm gonna take the rope from the millstone that's
Tied around my neck
And with body bound for death
Wrap my feet back up
Underneath my legs
So when I sink to the bottom
Of this deep dark sea
I will wait for Thee
On bended knee

Death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy victory? (1 Corinthians c15. v5)
For my savior will come and rescue me and redeem his treasure at the bottom of the sea
(And) when that light breaks through the clouds, we're all going to sing and we're all going to shout,
when the dead shall rise from their resting place, and sing the chorus to Amazing Grace.

Lord rescue me, place your hand underneath my wings,
lift me up above the raging sea.
And carry me to your shore.

Part two - Jerusalem:

These Are The Days

These are the days, marching t'ward us with vengeance in their eyes.
These are the days, racing toward us with blood on their teeth and lips.

And I can hardly wait to hear that great trumpet sound pouring down
out across the land

These, these are the days that must happen to you.
These, these are the days that must happen to you.

These are the days that must happen to you,
bloody times ahead for God's chosen few.
With our instruments as swords, weapons of war, marching around the
city seven times
And I can hardly wait to hear that great trumpet sound
pouring down out across, out across the land

(Spoken) So we approach the end, when God judges man's sin
Yeah the time is running thin
Let the countdown begin
Four?three?two?one?

Yeah the whole world is gonna shake
`When The Levee Breaks'
And it feels the wrath
Of God's terrible swift sword

(in foreground)
These are the days that must happen to you
These are the days that must happen to you

(in background)
These are the days that must happen to you
These are the words that have to be true
Blessed are the words
Blessed are the words
These are the days that must happen to you
These are the times that must happen to you
These are the things that must come true
Bring out the dead
Bring out the words
Cause of it all

These are the days that must happen to you, the stars are aligned
for all God's chosen few,
So all your haircut bands doing headstands, thinking you'll turn the
world upside down.
Put your guitars up over your shoulders.
A new sort of experience is taking over `cos we're simply the best
band in the whole d**n land
(Spoken) And Texas is the reason

The city is ours for the taking
And a host of many more heavenly angels are on their way
These are the days

When We Shall Touch

Falling, just angels falling.
(When) we shall touch, the worlds will shake when these touch down and storm
Just angels falling
And if I don't make the climb to the higher times know that in my
heart I'm still your man

(Spoken through megaphone: excerpt from "Paradise Lost" approx 1 min
20 secs)

(1"07)
Adam, Heaven's high behest no preface needs:
Sufficient that thy prayers are heard; and Death,
Then due by sentence when thou didst transgress,
Defeated of his seisure many days
Given thee of grace; wherein thou mayest repent,
And one bad act with many deeds well done
Mayest cover: Well may then thy Lord, appeased,
Redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim;
But longer in this Paradise to dwell
Permits not: to remove thee I am come,
And send thee from the garden forth to till
The ground whence thou wast taken, fitter soil.
He added not; for Adam at the news
Heart-struck with chilling gripe of sorrow stood,
That all his senses bound; [Eve, who unseen
Yet all had heard, with audible lament
Discovered soon the place of her retire.]

(1"39)
O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death!
Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave
Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades,
Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend,
Quiet though sad, the respite of that day
That must be mortal to us both. O flowers,
That never will in other climate grow,
My early visitation, and my last
At Eev'n, which I bred up with tender hand
From the first opening bud, and gave ye names!
Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank
Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Thee lastly, nuptial bower! by me adorned
With what to sight or smell was sweet! from thee
How shall I part, and whither wander down
Into a lower world; to this obscure
And wild? how shall we breathe in other air
Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits?
[Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign
What justly thou hast lost, nor set thy heart,
Thus over-fond, on that which is not thine:
Thy going is not lonely; with thee goes
Thy husband; whom to follow thou art bound;
Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
Adam, by this from the cold sudden damp
Recovering, and his scattered spirits returned,
To Michael thus his humble words addressed.]

(2"23)
Celestial, whether among the Thrones, or named
Of them the highest; for such of shape may seem
Prince above princes! gently hast thou told
Thy message, which might else in telling wound,
And in performing end us; what besides
Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair,
Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring,
Departure from this happy place, our sweet
Recess, and only consolation left
Familiar to our eyes! all places else
Inhospitable appear, and desolate;
Nor knowing us, nor known: And, if by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Of Him who all things can, I would not cease
To weary him with I disagreeiduous cries:
But prayer against his absolute decree
No more avails than breath against the wind,
Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft
Just angels falling, falling wings waiting soft

Down With The Prophets

Stubborn horses standing on the lead rope,
no other forces but you keep holding back, off God's track
On a mission impossible to lead the troops out of the enemy's hand
into the Promised Land

Headed to Texas where it's safe and dry the ground is rough but so is life.
And this ain't your life.
Headed to Texas with gun in hand to set our feet upon dry land.

Down with the prophets who speak the words and warn us of the perils
through song and verse
Here's my body I lay it down, give my head to receive my crown.
Let's cut the heads off the John the Baptists,
bring them on an alter to the king for the songs that they sing
those wretched, wretched things
This is the lot of the chosen
who give their lives just to save a few more chosen few

What's a boy to do when he's seen the truth?
And when the profits peak , the prophets speak
"We are troubled on every side yet not distressed perplexed but not
in despair Persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed "
(taken from St. Paul 11 Corinthians 4;8)

Yeah this is the drink stronger than you think
(Spoken) Shaken but not stirred,
and if you want to survive put the cup to your mouth
and turn your body to the South

And if you go on, if you stay
We've couldn't give a horse's ass either way
Just tryin' to feed the stubborn horses standin'on the lead rope
The coming revival will be one of survival
And if you wanna survive you gotta keep your heads

Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets
Down with the prophets

(Spoken) We sing these songs because we have to,
not because we want to
We sing these songs because we have to not because we want to
Just doing our part trying to feed stubborn horses standing on the lead rope.

And all of rock and roll until now was to give a place for the
angels to spread their wings with songs to sing, with songs to sing.

And when the rock starts to roll
Know that the bell soon will toll
And we are the ones that told you so
For the angels are coming with bells on
For the angels are coming with bells on
For the angels are coming with bells on
Behold the angels are coming with bells on

And you may not need God now,
but you'll need him then,
after all the alcohol when the room really starts to buzz

To Guard and To Guide You

Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the plains.
And the mountains in reply echo back their joyous strains.

Marching on toward Zion, marching on toward Zion.

Under the X in Texas, is where you'll find me
It's where I'll be
Singing out the songs, warnin' the world of the perils to come.
With a cloud by day and a fire by night
Forced out of the "Garden of Earthly Delights'

And one by one the states will know as they crumble like Jericho,
from Canada to Mexico that Texas is the rock to lift you up when your worlds collide.
With the angels to guard and the angels to guide, upon the truth you can rely.
So take two steps towards Texas tonight

(Spoken) For the sheep shall flock on the call of that mighty Texas rock singing:
"Angel of God, my guardian dear.
To whom God's love commits me here
Ever this day be at my side, to light, to rule, to guard and to guide"

(Spoken) Angel dons the metaphor, swings open wide those prison doors
There's going to be a war to end all war
When your heart hears the call, feels the weight of the fall, and
the gravity of life's circumstance pulls you down, follow your fate
to the Lone Star State and join us as we sing along:
"Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here
Ever this day be at my side, to light, to rule, to guard and to guide"

(Spoken) If you survive the coming rains
The crash and the tide of the latter days
You can secure your slot
And fall in rank with the crippled and the faint
As the saints go marching on toward Zion
With guns in hand
As the saints go marching on toward Zion
With guns in hand

Singing:
"Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here
Ever this day be at my side, to light, to rule, to light, to rule,
to light, to rule, to guard and to guide"

Take two steps towards Texas tonight
Take two steps towards Texas tonight

"Angels we have heard on high sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains"

"To teach the world to sing in perfect harmony"
"As for me an my house"
" We will not go gently"

Now the time has come when you must decide
To take two steps towards Texas tonight

So follow the Lone Star in the sky and beg for the angels to guard and to guide

Into The Storm

Into the storm
Tell your mother you won't be home for Christmas this year
Say you're headed south for the Promised Land
And with gun in hand!

Sell the car and take the train you won't need it where you're going
Leave the bags don't pack a thing but the cloths on your back
With the gun and gunny sack
With the gun and gunny sack
Head for the track!
(Babylon is falling has fallen)

You'll see it before you hear it
Sound takes sometime to travel
When the noise reaches you ear
You will know you will fear the end is near
When America falls the world will fall with her
When America falls the world will fall with her
When America falls the world will fall with her
When America falls the world will fall with her

If one tires along the journey
Keep riding through the night
You'll never make it if you stop today
You'll never make it if you stop for light
Don't pause to question justice
Don't take the time to moan
We'll all have time to suffer
After we've suffered the storm
(Babylon is falling has fallen)

But the day comes and the night
As we travel along to the darker song
With salvation left to come
Under the thought of what little you've found
Yeah the journey for you my friend has just begun
Yeah the wind is going to blow these walls in
The sound is going to drown you out
Yeah the wind is going to blow these four walls in
The sound is going to drown you out
Behold I'll show you a mystery we shall not all see
We shall be changed, crippled, dead, and weak
In the moment in the twinkling of an eye
The last trumpets will sound and the dead shall rise
Incorruptible
We shall all be changed
We shall be free

(we are on our roads Where ever we are
On paths to the city that is too far
So follow your fate to the lone star state and join us as we sing along)

We shall be free

(I don't see, serpent lips struggle free Stick it in.
place your lips to my lips and lets begin to weather out the storm You have been warned)

We shall be free

(medley of lyrics sung in background)

We shall be free

my soul is battered bruised and bleeding
It is bleeding from my trip
I need a place to put it down
(Mumbled)
Where can my heart find refuse from itself?
Where can I go?
(Mumbled)
We have come to tell you there is a place
There is a place
Follow me over the Jordan across the desert sand
Follow me over Israel into the Promised Land
Follow me over the Jordan across the desert sand
Follow me into Texas into the Promised Land


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