Album: Songs For Silverman (2005)

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• Take a walk
  Out the gate you go and never stop
  Past all the stores and wig shops
  Quarter in a cup for every block
  And watch the buildings grow
  Smaller as you go
  
  Down the tracks
  Beautiful McMansions on a hill
  That overlook a highway
  With riverboat casinos and you still
  Have yet to see a soul
  
  Jesusland
  Jesusland
  
  Town to town
  Broadcast to each house, they drop your name
  But no one knows your face
  Billboards quoting things you'd never say
  You hang your head and pray
  
  For Jesusland
  Jesusland
  
  Miles and miles
  And the sun goin' down
  Pulses glow
  From their homes
  You're not alone
  Lights come on
  As you lay your weary head on their lawn
  
  Parking lots
  Cracked and growing grass you see it all
  From offices to farms
  Crosses flying high above the malls
  A longer walk
  
  Through Jesusland
  Jesusland Writer/s: BEN FOLDS, BENJAMIN SCOTT FOLDS
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Jack from Massachusetts I'm not really religious, but I think this is good commentary on how ego is more important to some than what they really believe in.
• Jake from London, United Kingdomlol @ suggestion for more songs about spirituality or religion and reality of this music video.
• Erika from Topeka, KsThis is Ben Folds, not Ben Folds Five. It's on Songs for Silverman.
• Joshua from Twin Cities, MnThe title presumably refers to a satirical map of North America that was published online shortly after the 2004 Presidential elections. The map showed those American states carried by Democratic candidate John Kerry as being annexed to Canada and renamed "The United States of Canada," with the remaining states - the ones carried by the winning incumbent George W. Bush - as "Jesusland," referring to the perception that the influence of the Christian right played a major role in Bush's re-election.
  
• Lexie from Sydney, Australiai think it has one of the guys from 'little britian' in the film clip. love it.

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