STILL GOT THAT LOOK
(Jim Ringer)
As sung by Jim Ringer on "The Best of Jim Ringer: The Band of Jesse James"

1. His life was a shambles.
Every day was a gamble.
Orange Sunshine burned his mind up long ago.
Every lesson he learned,
And any way he turned,
He found out was the wrong way to go.
Now he wears shiny shoes,
He swears he's found Truth,
And all he's learned up to now has been a lie.
He used to take acid,
And now he loves God,
But he's still got that look in his eye.

Every day he spends hours
Tryin' to pin flowers
On folks who ain't got time to smell,
And he tries to explain
That if you miss your plane,
Well, that's better than your burning in Hell.
The ol' preacher believes
It's the workin's of Jesus.
Well, that ol' preacher just don't realize,
He used to take acid,
And now he loves God,
But he's still got that look in his eye.

3. His momma back home
Kind of wishes he'd phone,
But his dad hopes he don't call today.
The last time he called
Was some time last fall,
For money, and to beg them to pray.
Well, the Church has his money,
And his clothes are still funny,
And them new shoes ain't even his size.
He used to take acid,
And now he loves God,
But he's still got that look in his eye.

Yeah, he used to take acid,
And now he loves God,
But he's still got that look in his eye.


Peter.

(Ringer is claimed to have written it after being pestered by just such an individual at an airport when he was rushing to catch a plane.)