World Of Strange Design

Album: The River & the Thread (2014)
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  • Well you're not from around here
    You're probably not our kind
    It's hot from March to Christmas
    And other things you'll find

    Won't fit your old ideas
    Their line is shifting sands,
    You walk across a ghostly bridge
    To a crumbling promise land

    [Chorus]
    If Jesus came from Mississippi
    If tears began to rise
    I guess I'll start at the beginning
    The world of strange design

    Well I'd like to have the ocean
    But I'd settle for the rain
    Humbly as for true love
    There was such a price to pay

    This room was filled with trouble
    And sacraments deceived
    And I'm with you, we're in the shade
    Of his weeping willow tree

    If Jesus came from Mississippi
    If tears began to rise
    I'll have to go back to the beginning
    In this world of strange design

    We talk about your drinking
    But not about your thirst
    You set off through the mine field
    Like you were round in first

    So open up their window
    And hand the baby through
    Point up towards the ghostly bridge
    And she'll know what to do

    If Jesus came from Mississippi
    If tears began to rise
    They'll have to go back to the beginning
    In this world of strange design Writer/s: JOHN LEVENTHAL, ROSANNE CASH
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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