Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Chasing Heaven: Life's Choices in the Amarillo Cowboys' Melody
Lyrics
Preacher told me last Sunday morning
Reflecting on advice from a preacher received on a Sunday morning.
Son, you better start living right
The preacher advises living a righteous life.
You need to quit the women and whiskey
Encouragement to avoid indulging in vices like women and whiskey.
And carrying on all night
Discouraging excessive partying and carousing through the night.
Don't you wanna hear him call your name
Desire to hear one's name called when entering heaven's gates.
When you're standing at the pearly gates
An anticipation of standing before the gates of heaven.
I told the preacher, "Yes I do"
Expressing agreement with the preacher's advice.
But I hope they don't call today
Hopeful reluctance to be called to heaven on that particular day.
I ain't ready
Expressing a lack of readiness for heaven.
Everybody wants to go to heaven
Universal desire for heaven and a heavenly life.
Have a mansion high above the clouds
Aspiring for a grand residence in the skies.
Everybody want to go to heaven
Reiteration of the widespread desire for heaven.
But nobody want to go now
Contrast between the desire for heaven and reluctance to go now.
Said preacher maybe you didn't see me
Explaining a generous contribution to the church.
Throw an extra twenty in the plate
Linking the donation to past actions and seeking divine support.
There's one for everything I did last night
Implicit acknowledgment of questionable actions the previous night.
And one to get me through today
Contributing for present and future forgiveness and assistance.
Here's a ten to help you remember
Offering additional funds to ensure divine remembrance.
Next time you got the good Lord's ear
Requesting a delay in the journey to heaven.
Say I'm coming but there ain't no hurry
Expressing the enjoyment of life on earth.
I'm having fun down here
Highlighting the universal desire for heaven.
Don't you know that
A rhetorical question emphasizing the widespread aspiration for heaven.
Everybody wants to go to heaven
Repeating the desire for a heavenly experience.
Get their wings and fly around
Imagining the joy of flying with wings in heaven.
Everybody want to go to heaven
Reiterating the general desire for heaven.
But nobody want to go now
Highlighting the hesitation to go to heaven immediately.
Someday I want to see those streets of gold in my halo
Expressing a future desire to witness heavenly beauty.
But I wouldn't mind waiting at least a hundred years or so
Willingness to wait patiently for a hundred years or more.
Everybody wanna go to heaven
Reiterating the widespread desire for heaven.
It beats the other place there ain't no doubt
Positively comparing heaven to the alternative.
Everybody wanna go to heaven
Reiterating the universal longing for heaven.
But nobody wanna go now
Emphasizing the reluctance to go to heaven immediately.
Everybody wanna go to heaven
Repeating the general desire for heaven with a celebratory tone.
Hallelujah, let me hear you shout
An enthusiastic expression, inviting others to join in praising heaven.
Everybody wanna go to heaven
Reiterating the widespread desire for heaven.
But nobody wanna go now
Underlining the hesitation of individuals to go to heaven immediately.
I think I speak for the crowd
Representing a collective sentiment of the crowd's reluctance.
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