["JESUS SAVES" PLAYING] (SINGING) There was
a man I used to pass On my way into town He was covered in dirt like
the world had beat him down And I often wondered how
he ended up like that So one day drivin' home,
I pulled over to ask I said, man, where'd
it all go wrong? He said, son, do you
really want to know? My daddy left for another
woman, moved off to LA My mama fought hard
against that cancer But she died when I was eight I finished school. My country shipped
me off to war When I came home, my whole
world didn't love me anymore It's hard to see all that
when you're driving by. So I just wrote
down "Jesus Saves" 'Cause there ain't no
way to fit that on a sign Ain't no way to
fit that on a sign Took him to a diner Bought him a cup of coffee He asked me if he could
bum a couple dollars off me He told me his
story, I told mine He said thanks because
most folks around here would never take the time He said I lost my
job down at the mill when that factory closed The army stopped
sending me them checks The bank took
everything I owned Hitchhiked my way up to Chicago The nights were too damn cold I hopped a train
and headed west 'Cause I had nowhere else to go It's hard to see
all that driving by So I just wrote
down "Jesus Saves" 'Cause there ain't no
way to fit that on a sign Ain't no way to
fit that on a sign I probably would have
wrote down a little more If I could have found a
bigger piece of cardboard My brother Walter was my hero And he was bad to drink One night he laid his Harley
down along that Ohio River bank Me and my ex-wife tried for
kids when we were dating Hell, we even had
baby names picked out Little Walter didn't make it It's hard to see
all that driving by So I just wrote down "Jesus
Saves" because there ain't no way to fit that on a sign You can't fit all
that on a sign.