Gunslinger

They put a new sign up today
Where everyone could read it
The folks who paid to have it made
Must think that I need it
It was selling Sunday service
Been a long time since I've been
Sign said, "Are you man enough
To walk along with Him?"

Billboards for Jesus. Is that how its gonna be?
Try and sell religion on a sinner just like me
Am I man enough? Am I strong enough?
I'm thinking, "Who the hell are they?
Don't need your billboards for Jesus
To show me the way."

Come next Sunday morning
I found myself in church
I walked in a cynic
But at least that sign had worked
My heart was worn and leathered
My attitude was tough
When the preacher man he asked me
"Son, how'd you hear about us?"
I told him
Billboards for Jesus that's how it came to be
Took a sign for me to find
My way down on my knees
Am I man enough, am I strong enough?
Lord, I hope and pray
Billboards for Jesus show me the way

We got hurricanes
And heartache pains
Brothers in Iraq
A world in need of rescue
And friends who won't come back
But our doors are like His arms
Wide open every day
If your hurting
Come inside my friend
I'll gladly show the way (I'll be your)

Billboard for Jesus, that's how its gonna be
Gotta tell somebody else
Just what He's done for me
Am I strong enough, Am I man enough?
Lord, I hope and pray
Billboards for Jesus, show me the way.

Winter's closing in
This house is getting cold
Living with your memory
Is like living with a ghost
I'm ready for these lonely nights to end
But I'm just not ready for love again.

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The tears are fewer and further between
Life's waiting patiently to test my wings
I think about trying every now and then
But I'm just not ready for love again

I'm not wishing for the tables to turn
I'm still sifting through the ashes
Of the lessons I've learned
Forgiveness keeps knockin'
But it can't come in
I'm just not ready for love again.

Someday but not tonight
I'll get you off my mind
Then maybe love will find
Its way back to where it belongs

She was 21 with a rock n roll soul
Cutting her teeth on that rebel radio.
Sounded like Emmy Lou Harris and the Rolling Stones
Searching for the beat in the heart of the nation
Founding her sound like a sweet salvation
Someday soon that sound's gonna carry her home
She had 27 dollars and 17 cents
She filled up the tank she has been back since
(She said)

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I'm free to do what I wanna
Free yeah I think I'm gonna
Free to do what I was born to do

He was just a kid
Working the grave yard shift
His whole world changed
When she rolled in
She said so much
Without so much as saying a word
Believe me he heard
'Cause he left that job at 7 AM
Been chasing his dreams now ever since then
He said I'm free

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I think it's been about 1/2 dozen years
1/4 million miles and we're still out here
No matter where we go I know we're never alone
'Cause we're all part of a big ole race
Of chasing our dreams and by God's Grace
Someday, somewhere, somehow
We're gonna find our way home

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We're all free to do what we wanna
Free yeah I think we oughta
Be free to do what we were born to do
How 'bout you?