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"I Want a Screaming Jesus"
Words by the Reverend David Weasley and the Reverend Tom Ryberg
Guitar & Vocals Cindi Knox
In this advent season
We await a savior
I don't know 'bout you
But I know who I'm waiting for...
I want an angry Jesus
Lifted wailing from the straw
The Jesus I know is angry
Before he can even crawl
Please throw out your HallmarkĀ® Jesus
Cherubic, clean and white
That Jesus won't ever save you
That Jesus won't make you right
I want a dirty Jesus
Who smells like sheep and blood and ***
If you want the incarnation
You're gonna have to handle it
Everybody loves a baby
Or so they claim until
She's howlin' and needs a changin;
She's teething and never still
I want a messy Jesus
Because he's just been born
The lifeblood from his mother
Upon him Christmas morn
The new creation trembles
The holy wind fills her sails
And with the newborn savior
All creation wails
I want a screaming Jesus
Who will not let me sleep
Who raises holy terror
Anything but mild and meek
[cry like baby Jesus]
I want a screaming Jesus
Who will not let me sleep
Who raises holy terror
Anything but mild and meek
Who raises holy terror
Anything
Anything but mild and meek