Preacher told me last Sunday mornin`
Son, you better start livin` right
You need to quit the women and whiskey
And carrying on all night
Don`t you wanna hear him call your name
When you`re standin` at the pearly gates
I told the preacher, "Yes I do"
But I hope they don`t call today
I ain`t ready
Everybody wants to go to heaven
Have a mansion high above the clouds
Everybody want to go to heaven
But nobody want to go now
Said preacher maybe you didn`t see me
Throw an extra twenty in the plate
There`s one for everything I did last night
And one to get me through today
Here`s a ten to help you remember
Next time you got the good Lord`s ear
Say I`m comin` but there ain`t no hurry
I`m havin` fun down here
Don`t you know that
Everybody wants to go to heaven
Get their wings and fly around
Everybody want to go to heaven
But nobody want to go now
Someday I want to see those streets of gold in my halo
But I wouldn`t mind waitin` at least a hundred years or so
Everybody wanna go to heaven
It beats the other place there ain`t no doubt
Everybody wanna go to heaven
But nobody wanna go now
Everybody wanna go to heaven
Hallelujah, let me hear you shout
Everybody wanna go to heaven
But nobody wanna go now
I think I speak for the crowd
So ...
How'd y'all like the advert to help recover from "the night before"? :-)
Anyway ...
Do ya think everybody wants to go to heaven? Maybe so, but maybe Kenny is right, not yet and not on God's terms -- yeah, the doesn't say exactly that but y'all know it's true anyway.
Partly, maybe, it sounds like the heaven he's singing about -- the one that's being preached about at least by default -- doesn't sound too different from the fun parts of "here and now," to wit:
"Have a mansion high above the clouds ..."
"Get their wings and fly around ..."
"... those streets of gold in my halo ..."
Sounds more like the prosperity gospel than the gospel of Jesus - at least the goal seems that way.
I have serious problems with a very eisogesic interpretation of a [very] few references the bible makes to a "new heaven and a new earth." And, hey, the wing thing isn't even in the bible. I think we ought to get a lot more real about heaven and what the bible actually DOES say about it and about the final destination of believers -- it ain't heaven like Kenny sings about -- it's not heaven at all.
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