Lyrics David Ramirez - The Forgiven

They love me for being honest
They love me for being myself
But the minute I mention Jesus
They want me to go to Hell

It's hard to find the balance
When I don't believe in one
When you mix art with business
You're just shooting an empty gun

You're just a songwriter, you ain't a preacher
We came to mourn you, not to look in the mirror
Sing about those hard times, sing about those women
We love the broken, not the forgiven

These songs will only take me
As far as the people will go
If I can't make them happy
Well then they won't come to my shows

Maybe that's what killed
All the great voices in the world
Always bleeding for every line
But no one was bleeding in return

You're just a songwriter, you ain't a preacher
We came to mourn you, not to look in the mirror
Sing about those hard times, sing about those women
We love the broken, not the forgiven

I've stood in Roman cathedrals
Prayed in Southern Baptist chapels
I've never heard a voice so I ain't paying a penny more
Tell me where to find the Lord

They raised me on doughnuts and coffee
Under fluorescent lights we watched outdated movies
It smelled like a hospital but no one was being cured
Tell me where to find the Lord

Tell me where to find
Tell me where to find the Lord
How the hell am I supposed to knock on Heaven if I can't even see the door
Tell me where to find the Lord

So I traded in my pew for a bar stool
Trying to find redemption in the mind of the youth
We'd sit tall with our cigarettes and disheveled uniforms
Oh I never, no I never saw the Lord

My biggest fear in the world
Is introducing myself in the grave
After all my years living free
I don't have much to say

Oh the longer I live the more I know I'm gonna die
And the more questions I have the less I want to try
Time was winning so many times I stopped keeping score
Tell me where to find the Lord