Sweetheart, I Ain’t Your Christ-Josh T Pearson

[00:32.32]I ain't your Saviour or your Christ or your goddamn sacrifice [00:47.51]And when I said I'd give my life, I weren't talkin' suicide [00:57.20]And I'm so tired of trying to make it right, [01:09.76]for a girl who just won't come to the light [01:17.01]Night after night after night after Christ-haunted night [01:30.23] [01:32.41]And how you bring your gifts to me [01:39.49]Tied-up and bound in their bows of pink [01:47.56]And gently place them at my feet, like I'm some dying Christmas tree [02:00.47]And drop down to your ***y kitten knees [02:08.59]Sweetly fold your hands and plead for me to suck out some disease, [02:19.68]I can't even begin to see [02:33.24]You don't need a lover or a friend [02:39.57]You need a god and not a mortal man [02:46.47]Woman you need born again, again [02:48.47]You need a Saviour and I'm just am not him [03:13.22] [05:02.67]And so you sing to me your songs [05:04.60]And how you hum your holy verse [05:07.10]And try to teach my tongue to talk [05:08.42]Cuz you think it'll cure some curse [05:08.67]But that dust of death it's dug too deep, to be sung or swept right off your sweet [05:13.42]heart that lost its beat out there trying to light up cut down fallen men like me [05:16.10]I ain't your Saviour or your Christ or your goddamn sacrifice [05:17.54]And when I said I'd give my life, I weren't talkin' suicide [05:26.96]And I'm so tired of trying to make it right, for a girl who won't come to the light [05:43.52]Night after night after night after Christ-haunted night [05:57.83] [06:09.67]I can bring you to the water [06:11.85]I can bring you to the shore [06:15.04]I can give all I have to give but Sweetheart [06:25.23]I can't give you more [06:32.29]I can bring you to the water [06:39.86]But I sure as hell can't make you drink [06:47.17]It ain't Christmas time it's Easter, Honey Bunny, [06:51.86]and I ain't the Saviour you so desperately need. [07:03.84]And you won't be saved by saving me [07:37.49]No, you won't be saved by saving me [07:39.12]There's no need to cry those eyes [07:40.93]I'll pack my bags and say goodbye [07:47.86]And my return in your lifetime, is more unlikely than King Jesus Christ's [07:59.23]I'll take up my gifts and walk the line [08:04.48]Take down my starry guiding Christmas lights [08:09.54]Say hello to the darkness my old friend, [08:13.12]say hello to the sound of silence my dear sweet angel goodnight [08:29.56] [09:43.32]Cuz Sweetheart, I ain't your Christ [09:57.43]Sweetheart, I ain't your Christ