Revelation

Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old soldier Walked out of a barroom And he said, "I must be seeing things That bourbon hit me like a baseball bat" In Belfast, Ireland a little lady Dropped her shovel in her garden She raced across the yard And ask her neighbor Mrs. Clancy, "What was that?" In Memphis, Tennessee a teacher Raised the window closest to the river And the children in her classroom Swore they'd heard a choir singing down the street In Washington, D.C. A private secretary's lips began to quiver And the president just put aside his papers And rose quickly to his feet I lay in a cheap motel In the arms of someone else's woman When a loud explosion rocked the room And turned the morning into night I jumped out of bed and ran into the street With hardly any clothes on As the sky lit up my heart stood still And I could feel my face was turnin' white All at once the clouds rolled back And there stood Jesus Christ in all His glory And I realized the saddest eyes I'd ever seen were lookin' straight at me I guess I was awakened by The penetrating sound of my own screamin' And it didn't take me long to stumble Out of bed and fall down on my knees As tears rolled down my face I cried "Dear God, I'm thankful I was only dreamin' And if I never go to hell, Lord It'll be because you scared it out of me"