Joe Nichols - Revelation lyrics

Somewhere in Vietnam

A nineteen year old soldier stumbles from a bar room

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

as she raced across her yard

To 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 heard a choir singing down the street

In Washington, D.C.

A private secretary's lips began to quiver

And the President lay down a stack of papers

And rose quickly to his feet

I lay in a cheap motel making love with 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

And as the sky lit up, my heart stood still and I could feel my face turn 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 looking straight at me

I guess I was awakened

By the penetrating sound of my own screaming

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 dreaming.

If I never go to hell, Lord, it will be because you scared it out of me."