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Junk Shop Jesus

from Pull Yourself Together by Jim Pearson

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I went through quite a religious phase as a boy. For a while I would read daily from my free Gideon Bible (given to us in our first day of middle school), before getting up for my morning paper round. I actually made my own Jesus from a long suffering Action Man (although I never had one with eagle eyes - artistic license). It’s a long time since he was my comforter, but this song reaches back irrationally through my subconscious, searching for meaningful answers to the present.

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Junk shop Jesus you’re the man
With eagle eyes and gripping hands
A relic from my adolescence
Comforter and omnipresent

Pocket gods and fire drills
Happiness and bitter pills
Momentary evergreens
Nightmares masquerade as dreams

What I feel, not what I know

Junk shop Jesus be my light
The satellites are out tonight
Within the darkness of my mind
I’ve seen you with my eyes shut tight

Pocket gods and fire drills
Happiness and bitter pills
Momentary evergreens
Nightmares masquerade as dreams

What I feel, not what I know

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from Pull Yourself Together, released August 1, 2020

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"You never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it's gonna be pretty darn good." Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music.

Jim's songs range from the whimsical to some of the most bitter and somber themes, yet always with a paradoxical childlike spirit that meets them head-on – wide-eyed and full of hopeful energy.
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