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• Rip Van Winkle - The Devotions

I lie awake after 20 years of sleep. learn to speak after 20 years of screams. am i coming in clear? calling you back home. do you recognize me? or has it been too long since...i got your message the wound is much too deep a cleansing is in order to make things neat. i'm calling you back home, do you recognize me, or has it been too long since i fell asleep?

I lie awake after 20 years of sleep. learn to speak after 20 years of screams. am i coming in clear? calling you back home. do you recognize me? or has it been too long since...i got your message the wound is much too deep a cleansing is in order to make things neat. i'm calling you back home, do you recognize me, or has it been too long since i fell asleep?

RIP VAN WINKLE GONNA SLEEP FOREVER
GONNA SLEEP HIS LIFE AWAY
RIP VAN WINKLE DON'T KNOW THE SAVIOR
GONNA SLEEP THROUGH JUDGMENT DAY
Open up your eyes, wake up and smell the napalm
The sky is filled with smoke and you're covered up in ash
The dead are all around you and the saints have gone to Glory
But you fell asleep and now you're all alone
You wander through the rubble looking for a sign of life
You're hoping that just maybe you will run across your wife
Your children or your neighbors, but they're either dead or gone
Then you come across some pages that are scattered 'cross the lawn
You start to read one of them thinking maybe it's a clue
But it's just from a Bible that had once belonged to you
One time you'd been a Christian, or maybe so you thought
But later in your life you decided you were not
You were nice to your neighbor, you were good to your wife
But a God you could not see or hear was sure not worth your life
You thought He was a legend, Jesus Christ was just a fake
But now you look around and wonder why you weren't awake
REPEAT CHORUS
So many people think that Jesus Christ is make-believe
They only trust the things that they can touch or hear or see
But just because you don't believe don't mean that it's not there
And when your life and soul's at stake, you'd better just beware
So if you're Rip Van Winkle, thinking that you've got it made
Just give your heart to Jesus and WAKE UP!!! before it's too late

RIP VAN WINKLE
The Devotions
Note: This song has a "background" song played with the
main song and music, making it unusually difficult
to make out the words. Here is my attempt:
Intro: Sound of rolling bowling ball and falling pins.
"Wow-wee a strike!"
Background: Boom-boom, boom boom-a-boom-boom
Boom-boom, boom boom-a-boom-boom
Rip Van Winkle, Rip van Winkle
Sleep, sleep, sleep
Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle
Sleep, sleep, sleep
He fell asleep in the woods one day
(??-unclear) lost his way
That night he was (??-unclear) story
Nothing (??-unclear) ever joy
Those little men bowling in his dream
He left his nagging wife now
(Slept for 20 years)
Didn't bother to wake up
(He grew a long white beard)
This is how the story goes
(Listen my children and you will hear)
He fell asleep in the woods one day
(??-unclear) lost his way
That night he was (??-unclear) story
Nothing (??-unclear) ever joy
Those little men bowling in his dream
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (snoring)
(rolling ball, pins falling, "wow-wee!")
Note: (??-unclear) means "This line is so badly
garbled that I can't even make a wild guess as to what the heck it's
supposed to be"
tmazanec1
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