The star-child is born   Another mouth to feed   Another king crowned with thorns      Sent from above   Another soul dropped down   In the streets of America      Brought up seen and not heard   And when they put him down he took in every word      Bad Jesus won’t you stand up tall   Bad Jesus with you back against the wall   He got lost and never got to save us all      One more Saturday night   Another fall down drunk   Another bar fight      The cops are called in   It’s that golden boy   The prince of peace again      Now what can be done   About the one sent down to show us how to love      Bad Jesus could have been someone   Bad Jesus only tryin’ to have your fun   Hey son of man you’ve really come undone      Innocent eyes, wondrous and wise   Crying on the phone, sinking inside the world’s madness      Bad Jesus in a world on fire   Bad Jesus show how man was born to die   (It’s a) wild notion tryin’ to take your people higher