[Chorus]
take these times like a lesson
learn from your mistakes
live your life like a Christian
and give them blues the shake
take the sign like a vision
get down on your knees and pray
everybody needs religion
religion is the only way

Jane, she was funky
you can't keep a funky girl down
running at night, tellin' men lies
waiting till the money ran down
then she had a situation with a wife
and a butcher knife
clean cut to a confrontation
with the man who saved her life, he said

[Chorus]
take these times like a lesson
learn from your mistakes
live your life like a Christian
and give them blues the shake

now the lesson of Sam and Janey
ain't easy to understand
people have been messin' with Satan
ever since the world began
the lord just sit back waitin'
with outstretched lovin' hands
waitin' till the day you need him
and he'll take you back again

[Chorus]
just cause you been forgiven
it don't mean that you've been saved
you got to live your life like a
Christian give them blues the shake
take the sign like a vision
get down on your knees and pray
everyone needs religion
religion is the only way

by Joey George © 1984 J.G. Blendingwell