A "Play" on Some of the Greatest Songs of Jackson Browne 3
JOY
For Chris
(Written in 1996)




Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretenders

Who started out to run so young and strong

And hopefully didn't surrender to running blind

Behind the eight ball of the infernal followers

Of greed and so-called almighty dollars.



If you're there, and you sold your souls

To bleed to death from self-centeredness

And seeking after non-existent happiness

Don't get up and do it over and over again

Only to be left behind when the trumpet calls.



Be there now! Answer God's prayer for your self

Let not your self be burned up with lust for temporal dreams

And run into the sun to be completely destroyed for ever

While only a few others get to enjoy true, everlasting Peace

On the truly joyous New Earth, made Heaven itself.



Are you there with the pretenders? Instead, be contenders

Don't surrender to following and leading the blind to ruination

And continue to ride that express train on the road to annihilation

But seek to find that glorious restoration of the beginning of the end

Always and only to be shared by the true chosen and victorious ones.