“You Saved My Soul” – Artist revealed at the end ….!!!!

When I think about how you saved my soul

I’m compelled to praise you

Like a woman out of control

So I lift up holy hands

I take advantage of this chance to say thank you

When I think about what you brought me through

I’m reminded to praise you for all that you had to do

So I lift up holy hands

I take advantage of this chance to say thank you

So from the bottom of my heart I say

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

When I think about were you brought me from

I gotta praise you like the victories already won

And I lift my hands

I take advantage of this chance to say thank you

When I think about oh Lord yes

Why you love me so

I’m compelled to praise you because

I really don’t care whose looking and who knows that I love you

And I lift up my holy hands

I take advantage of this chance to say thank you

Oh, everyday of my life I just wanna say

Thank you, (Thank you Lord)

Thank you, (I gotta thank you)

Thank you, (Because of who you been to me)

Thank you, (You been a shealter in the storm)

Oh and I Thank you

You been a rock that I can stand on Thank you Lord

And I say Thank you

You been a bridge over any kind of water

I gotta say Lord I thank you

With all my heart with all my soul

Everything within me says thank you Lord

Thank you Lord

Lord I thank you, Lord I thank you, Lord I thank you

For all you done to me

Thank you Lord

Theres no words that I can say but you been good

I can’t thank you enough no no no no no

Thank you Lord (I just wanna thank you)

I wanna thank, I wanna thank you

I gotta thank you, just wanna thank you

I thank you yes, I thank you yes, I thank you yes, I thank you yes

And I say…..I wanna thank you

Said Lord I thank you yes

Thank you

Artist: JOHN LENNON

~~

An article I previous posted written by Christian rock journalist, Steve

Turner. (Posted again at end of this post.)

Did John Lennon *really* write this?

Yes. He became a Christian for a short time.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Two new books on John Lennon claim that the ex-Beatle experienced a brief

period as a born-again Christian during the 1970s. While living the life of

a virtual recluse in New York’s Dakota Building, Lennon became an avid

viewer of American TV evangelists and, at some point during 1977, declared

that he had been saved.

Robert Rosen in Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (published in

June by Soft Skull Press) cites Billy Graham as the main influence, whereas

Geoffrey Giuliano in Lennon in America (published in June by Cooper Square

Press) mentions both Graham and Pat Robertson. Both agree that the period,

during which Lennon peppered his everyday conversation with “Praise the

Lord” and “Thank you, Jesus,” was brief. Giuliano says it lasted for “a

matter of months.” Rosen suggests it was “about two weeks.”

Both writers have based their information on sources close to Lennon and on

the singer’s personal diaries, which circulated shortly after his death and

were then retrieved by his widow, Yoko Ono. The existence of the diaries has

been known for some time, but so far no writer has divulged their contents.

Because of legal problems, neither Rosen nor Giuliano has been able to quote

directly from the diaries, but both have drawn on the information.

“One day [Lennon] had an epiphany-he allowed himself to be touched by the

love of Jesus Christ, and it drove him to tears of joy and ecstacy,” writes

Rosen, a New York journalist briefly employed by Ono. “He drew a picture of

a crucifix; he was born again, and the experience was such a kick that he

had to share it with Yoko.”

Giuliano, who has written extensively about the Beatles, pinpoints the

conversion to a Palm Sunday and says that Lennon was so moved by a series

about Jesus broadcast on Robertson’s CBN that he broke down in tears. In the

following weeks, he attended church services and took his son, Sean, to a

Christian theater performance. He even called The 700 Club help line to

request prayer for his health and troubled marriage. “He prayed for

forgiveness when he stepped on insects or snapped at the maid,” Giuliano

writes. “He became convinced that Jesus was personally protecting Sean.”

Ono, whose first husband Anthony Cox became an evangelical Christian in the

1970s, was displeased with Lennon’s changed outlook. Giuliano claims that

Lennon began to challenge her interest in the occult and was disappointed

that she wouldn’t join him in watching Graham’s telecasts.

“This dramatic conversion worried Yoko,” Giuliano writes. “She feared that

John’s new faith would clash with her own ideas about spiritualism and

threaten her iron hold over him.”

In the end Ono won. In his final years, the man best known for his lines

“Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try” was living a life

dictated by astrologers, numerologists, clairvoyants, psychics, herbalists,

and tarot-card readers.

The one song that Lennon wrote during his born-again period has never been

released. “You Saved My Soul,” which recounts being prevented from

attempting suicide while staying in a Tokyo hotel, is known only to Beatles

bootleggers.

Two years later, Lennon wrote a parody of Bob Dylan’s “Gotta Serve Somebody”

in which he urged his listeners to believe in no one but themselves-a line

he had peddled on his first solo release in 1970. According to Rosen in

Nowhere Man, Lennon wrote the song in Palm Beach after seeing the newly

converted Dylan on a Grammy Awards TV broadcast.

Rosen writes that “Serve Yourself” was “a wrathful protest bristling with

fury and despair.” (“You got to serve yourself / Nobody gonna do it for you

/ You may believe in devils / You may believe in laws / But you know you’re

gonna to have to serve yourself.”)

Unlike the other Beatles, Lennon was raised as a nominal Christian and

attended Sunday school at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool. This

early exposure to Christianity may explain why he always seemed to regard

Jesus as a figure who had to be dealt with, whether through comparison (“The

Beatles are more popular than Jesus”), identification (“They’re gonna

crucify me,” in “Ballad of John and Yoko”), or challenge (“I don’t believe

in Jesus,” in “God”). Where his contemporaries ignored Jesus, Lennon had to

continually take him on.

In his final interviews, carried out just weeks before his death in December

1980, Lennon said his beliefs could be described as “Zen Christian, Zen

pagan, Zen Marxist” or nothing at all.

Speaking to Newsweek’s Barbara Graustark, however, Lennon revealed that he

still read the Bible. “Some of [Christ’s parables] are only making sense to

me now, after a whole life of sitting in church or school,” he told her. “It

was just moany, moany, moany for years, and then I hear it again and I

think, God, that’s what he means.”

Steve Turner is a journalist and poet living in London.

from http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/007/34.86.html

Mark T.