Story Behind The Song
Written for a Labor Day concert at a Ventura church.
Song Description
New age setting of the theme... You can be kind at the office. The song is full of imagery of bright, glassy towers full of cold-hearted workers. The warning: "You better take a little time to touch somebody."
| Song Length |
3:25 |
Genre |
New Age - Religious, New Age - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Mixed Vocals |
| Mood |
Welcoming, Amiable |
Subject |
Religion, Skyscraper |
| Similar Artists |
Kate Bush, Sade |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
Jesus for a Day (a song for workers)
Blue workday skies fill your morning.
Silvery towers are warning:
?Take a little time. You?d better take a little time to touch somebody.?
Work-a-day squirrels haunting vertical, bright mirrored corridors,
Could you see scattering kindness, like acorns, on those cold gleaming hallways?
This is the right time, turn-on-the-light time.
You just might win it all on the ?Jesus for a Day? show.
Shine like a jewel. Because it might be coo-well.
?Take a little time. Why don?t you take a little time?
Oh can?t you take a little time? Just look around you??
She?s not the brightest (or cutest, or even nicest) bulb on this glistening tree
But now she?s crying her eyes out (your happy little workplace can be cruel).
And everybody?s staring at her with eyes made of anthracite coal.
Superman, spring from your tower!
One kindly word has such power.
Who?d have thought that a regular guy like you
Might be Jesus for a ?
Little bit a time.
?Why don?t you take a little time? I beg you, take a little time.?
Shine like a jewel.
Because it might be cool.