Jeremiah ft. Brian Campbell Lyrics

Jeremiah went up to the temple gate

Said change your way before it's way too late

I'm not here to scratch your itchy ears

I came to tell you what you need to hear

But the men of Jeremiah's home town

Said shut up boy we don't want you around

Keep talking like that and we'll put you down

And Jeremiah said Lord this is too much for me

Jeremiah went down to the potter's shop

But the piece on the wheel that the potter made was a flop

So he mushed it up and started all over again

And Jeremiah said that's what god does with men

So they dragged him away to the school of hard knocks

Hit him on the head and put in the stocks

Spit in his face and fastened the locks

And Jeremiah said Lord I think you tricked me

I didn't sign up for this

Jeremiah and Baruch wrote it down in book

They read it to the priests and sent it to the king for a look

But three pages in he sliced it up with a knife

Then he threw it on the fire and threatened Jeremiah's life

So they put Jeremiah in a pit full of muck

But Ebedmelech got him unstuck

And he saw the city get broken up

And Jeremiah said Lord this is really ugly

The remnant said we should have listened to you

So whatever you tell us we will surely do

Should we stay in the land or should we get up and go

Stay he said but they all said no

So they dragged him to Egypt shaking his head

And he said you will soon be a slave or be dead

The streets in this place are about to run red

And Jeremiah said Lord oh Lord have mercy