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(Carman narrates)
GEORGE WASHINGTON
THOMAS JEFFERSON
SAMUEL ADAMS, FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN JAY
NAMES SYNONYMOUS WITH THE SPIRIT OF OUR COUNTRY
FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE U.S.A.
OVER 200 YEARS AGO THEY SHOOK OFF THE CHAINS OF TYRANNY FROM GREAT BRITIAN
BY DIVINE CALL
CITING 27 BIBLICAL VIOLATIONS THEY WROTE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
"WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL".
BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED SINCE JEFFERSON CALLED THE BIBLE "THE CORNERSTONE FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY",
THAT PUT IT IN OUR SCHOOLS AS A LIGHT.
OR SINCE "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH", AS PATRICK HENRY SAID.
OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
WE ELIMINATED GOD FROM THE EQUATION OF AMERICAN LIFE,
THUS ELIMINATING THE REASON THIS NATION FIRST BEGAN.
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE I HEAR THE VOICES OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PLEAD,
"YOU NEED GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN!"
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OF THE 55 MEN THAT FORMED THE CONSTITUTION
52 WERE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THEIR CHURCH.
"FOUNDING FATHERS" LIKE NOAH WEBSTER WHO WROTE THE FIRST DICTIONARY,
COULD LITERALLY QUOTE THE BIBLE, CHAPTER AND VERSE!
JAMES MADISON SAID, "WE'VE STAKED OUR FUTURE AND OUR ABILITY
TO FOLLOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WITH ALL OUR HEART."
THESE MEN BELIEVED YOU COULDN'T EVEN CALL YOURSELF AN AMERICAN
IF YOU SUBVERT THE WORD OF GOD.
IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS, GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID,
"YOU CAN'T HAVE NATIONAL MORALITY APART FROM RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE", AND IT'S TRUE!
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NEARLY 150,000 KIDS CARRYING GUNS
TO THESE WARZONES WE CALL "PUBLIC SCHOOLS".
IN THE 1940s AND 1950s, STUDENT PROBLEMS WERE CHEWING GUM AND TALKING.
IN THE 1990s, *** AND *** ARE THE TREND.
THE ONLY WAY THIS NATION CAN EVEN HOPE TO LAST THIS DECADE
IS PUT GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN.
(singing) THE ONLY HOPE FOR AMERICA IS JESUS!
THE ONLY HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY IS HIM!
IF WE REPENT OF OUR WAYS,
STAND FIRM AND SAY,
WE NEED GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN!
(narrating) ABE LINCOLN SAID THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCHOOLROOM IN ONE GENERATION
WILL BE THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT IN THE NEXT GENERATION.
SO WHEN YOU ELIMINATE THE WORD OF GOD FROM THE CLASSROOM AND POLITICS,
YOU ELIMINATE THE NATION THAT WORD PROTECTS!
AMERICA IS NOW #1 IN TEEN PREGNANCY AND VIOLENT CRIME,
#1 IN ILLITERACY, DRUG USE, AND DIVORCE.
EVERY DAY A NEW HOLOCAUST OF 5000 UNBORN DIE
WHILE *** FLOODS OUR STREETS LIKE OPEN SEWERS.
AMERICA'S DEAD AND DYING HAND IS ON THE THRESHHOLD OF THE CHURCH
WHILE THE SPIRIT OF *** AND GOMORRAH VEX US ALL.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE POINT PEOPLE WOULD RATHER "COME OUT OF THE CLOSET" THAN CLEAN IT,
IT'S THE SIGN THAT THE JUDGMENT OF GOD IS GOING TO FALL!
IF THERE'S EVER BEEN A TIME TO RISE UP CHURCH - IT'S NOW!
AND AS THE BLOOD-BOUGHT SAINTS OF THE LIVING GOD PROCLAIM,
THEN IT'S TIME TO SOUND THE ALARM FROM THE CHURCH HOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND SAY,
WE WANT GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN!
(choir singing) WE WANT GOD IN AMERICA,
GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN ...
I BELIEVE IT'S TIME, AMERICA, TO STAND UP AND PROCLAIM THAT
ONE NATION UNDER GOD IS OUR DEMAND!
AND SEND THIS EVIL LIFESTYLE BACK TO SATAN WHERE IT CAME FROM
AND LET THE WORD OF GOD REVIVE OUR DYING LAND!
FOR JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK AGAIN IN ALL HIS GLORY
AND EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM ON THAT DAY!
THAT'S WHY A NEW ANOINTING OF GOD'S POWER IS COMING ON US
TO BOLDLY TELL THE WORLD - YOU MUST BE SAVED!
BECAUSE ASTROLOGY WON'T SAVE YOU, YOUR HOROSCOPE WON'T SAVE YOU -
THE BIBLE SAYS THESE THINGS ARE ALL FAKE.
IIF YOU'RE "BORN AGAIN", YOU DON'T NEED TO LOOK TO THE STARS FOR YOUR ANSWERS,
BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK TO THE VERY ONE WHO MADE THOSE STARS!
HISTORY TELLS US TIME AND TIME AGAIN - TO LIVE LIKE THERE IS NO GOD MAKES YOU A FOOL.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE KIDS LIVE RIGHT STOP HANDING OUT CONDOMS
AND START HANDING OUT THE WORD OF GOD IN SCHOOLS!
(choir with Carman singing) THE ONLY HOPE FOR AMERICA IS JESUS!
THE ONLY HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY IS HIM!
IF WE REPENT OF OUR WAYS, STAND FIRM AND SAY,
WE NEED GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN!
I KNOW THE ONLY HOPE FOR AMERICA IS JESUS!
THE ONLY HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY NOW IS HIM!
IF WE REPENT OF OUR WAYS, STAND FIRM AND SAY,
WE NEED GOD IN AMERICA AGAIN!
WE NEED GOD IN AMERICA,
GOD IN AMERICA,
WE NEED GOD IN AMERICA
AGAIN!!!
(choir) AMERICA AGAIN!!!