If I Was The Priest

Bruce Springsteen

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INTRO   Well there’s a light -on yonder -mountain  and it’s callin’ me to shine   There’s a girl over by the water fountain and she’s asking to be mine   And ait that Jesus’s he’ standing in the doorway          with a buckskin jacket boots and spurs so really fine     He says we need you up in Dodge City son because there’s                                  (hold)      oh so many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line                                 Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief   oh and papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line                                     (hold) still too many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line                                Now old sweet Virgin Mary she runs the Holy Grail Saloon Where for a nickel they’ll give you whiskey and a personally blessed balloon And the holy ghost hes the host with the most he runs the berlesque show      Where they let in for free but ooh hit you for your soul when you go And Mary serves mass on Sunday and then she sells her body on Monday      To the bootlegger who will pay the highest price Well he don’t know he got stuck with the losin’ Mary stone      Junkie what’ more she’ a boozer   She’ only been made once or twice      by some kind of magic                                Well things ain’t been sane in heaven ever since big bad Bobby came to town      He’ been known to down eleven and then ask for another round And me I got scabs on my knees from kneelin’ way to long      You got to take a stand be a man up where you belong And forget about the old friends in the old times      But there’ just too many new boys trying to work the same line.               Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief   oh and papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line                                     (hold) still too many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line                                Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief   oh and papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line     still too many bad boys tryin’ to work the same line                                Well there’s a light -on yonder -mountain  and it’s callin’ me to shine   There’s a girl over by the water fountain and she’s asking to be mine   And Jesus’s hes standing in the doorway      with 6 guns drawn ready to fan      He says we need you up in Dodge City son      I’m already overdue in Cheyane

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La chanson évoque une réalité complexe où le divin et le mondain se croisent. Elle raconte l'histoire d'un jeune homme tiraillé entre son devoir spirituel et les tentations de la vie quotidienne dans une ville sauvage. Les personnages emblématiques tels que Jésus, la Vierge Marie, et des figures de l'ouest américain créent une atmosphère où le bien et le mal s'entremêlent, chacun ayant son propre rôle à jouer dans un univers rempli de désirs, de luttes et de mémoire. Le contexte semble se dérouler dans une ambiance de western, où la loi et l'ordre sont souvent défiés par des individus peu scrupuleux. On y ressent une tension palpable entre la foi, la moralité et les choix difficiles que l’on doit faire face à des influences négatives omniprésentes. Cela reflète l'angoisse de prendre position dans un monde où trop de personnes cherchent à tromper et à manipuler.