The Dead Milkmen - I Dream of Jesus lyrics

It was during my second senior year when Mom
Found Jesus Christ his spirit
Was trapped inside
An old Manischewitz's bottle that
Mom picked out of
The dumpster behind the 7-11 mom brought
The bottle inside and set it down on top
Of the TV then she told all of
Us kids to gather round, and then she
Explained how Jesus lived in the bottle
And how if she wanted to she could
Call him out to do her bidding
Sis said it reminded her of an old TV show
And Mom slapped her and called her
A heretic i didn't say anything, cause I just
Still remember the time outside the Safeway
When it took four security guards
To hold Mom down

Jesus loves me, yes I know
For the Bible tells me so


When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing this song
If I die before I wake
Pray to him my soul don't take
Jesus loves me, yes I know
It wasn't long before people from
All over the world started
Coming to our house to see
The bottle at first
I thought that this would make
Me more popular at school instead
It seemed to have the opposite result
Kids would stop and point at me
In the hallway and say
"There's the boy whose mother
Keeps our savior
Cooped up in that tiny little
Bottle" And then everybody started calling me
'Bottle boy' and that really hurt
It was also around this time
That Mom began to attract
Some really weird followers like
That guy who never
Used deodorant and spoke only in
Riddles and that woman
Who collected 19th century hand
Made Amish swimwear

Jesus loves me, yes I know
For the Bible tells me so
When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing this song
If I die before I wake
Pray to him my soul don't take
Jesus loves me, yes I know

Mommy she loved Jesus
But not like others did
For she had a special bottle
In which our savior lived
Mommy she loved Jesus
But not like others did
For she could unleash His vengeance
By unfastening the lid

As the year went on, things
Went from bad to worse, and
I realized that if there wasn't
A big change pretty soon
I'd never be able to get a date for the prom
I couldn't go the year
Before because Mom belonged
To a church that considered dancing
A one way ticket
To Hell but that's a whole 'nother story
Anyway, by this point Mom had appeared
On The Richard Bey Show, aM
Philadelphia, and Geraldo, so there was no
Use in me changing schools
Since everybody knew who my Mom was also
We had to spend
All the money from Mom's personal
Appearances to hire a bodyguard
Since by this point we were getting
About 400 death threats a day

Jesus loves me, yes I know
For the Bible tells me so
When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing this song
If I die before I wake
Pray to him my soul don't take
Jesus loves me, yes I know

Then one night, I just couldn't stand it
Any more while everyone else was sleeping
I crept
Downstairs slowly I went up to the bottle and
Began to unfasten the lid at first
Nothing happened but then the
Room filled with a
Thick white smoke i was glad my
Sister had taken the batteries out of the
Smoke detector to put into her Walkman
When the smoke cleared, I found myself face
To face with the son of God, who
Was much shorter than I had expected he
Told me that since I'd freed Him
He'd grant me one wish
And that's how I got to go to
The prom with Geena Davis but
You probably already read about
That in People

Jesus loves me, yes I know
For the Bible tells me so
When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing this song
If I die before I wake
Pray to him my soul don't take
Jesus loves me, yes I know

Mommy she loved Jesus
But not like others did
For she had a special bottle
In which our savior lived
Mommy she loved Jesus
But not like others did
For she could unleash His vengeance
By unfastening the lid
Mommy she loved Jesus
But not like others did
For she had a special bottle
In which our savior lived
Mommy she loved Jesus
But not like others did
For she could unleash His vengeance
By unfastening the lid