Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Chapter 3 from Skyway Man's album 'The World Only Ends When You Die', out now from Mama Bird Recording Co. Buy/save/stream/share: https://smarturl.it/mb040
Artwork by Kevin Hooyman. Video by Eric J. Loeffler.
/// Credits & Players:
Written by James Wallace / Rev. Anderson Johnson / Andy Jenkins
Engineers - Alan Weatherhead, Kevin Dailey, James Wallace
Background Vocals - Casey Jane, Camille Weatherford
Guitars - Alan Parker
Additional Guitars - Sean Thompson, James Wallace, Kevin Dailey
Drums/Percussion - Pinson Chanselle
Bass - Cameron Ralston
Piano/Keys - James Wallace
/// Lyrics:
D’you still dread the morning, all its force and light?
Wake up every hour, scream out in the night
You can’t understand what went wrong with this land
Tilt back the bottle, hold my selfish hand. Shit’ll kill ya
But Jesus took the fall, mhmm
Lay down in the fog
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya, I was the fortified wall
Wake up, Mary-Anna, tie your shoes up very well
I’ve come to tell you how the quiet nation fell
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya
I ride the Old Swingin’ Bell
And if the Swingin’ Bell goes wandering by
Get exposed to my stereo light
And if the old Father tells ya, “The great receiver won’t receive ya”
Believe what you like, but when I saw with my own eyes
He said, "We all go out together, it just happens on different nights"
Old Swingin’ Bell, Old Swingin’ Bell
When will you tell all that you know?
Want to make it hopeless, crawl into your shell?
Find a friend to push ya down into the well
If you can’t understand what went wrong with this land
Tilt back the bottle, drive into the Grand Canyon silver
Where Jesus took his fall so well
Bide your time in hell
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya
I'll ride the Old Swingin’ Bell
And if the Swingin’ Bell goes wandering by
Get exposed to my stereo light
And if the old Father tells ya, “The great receiver won’t receive ya”
Believe what you like, but when I saw with my own eyes
He said, "We all go out together, it just happens on different nights"
Old Swingin’ Bell, Old Swingin’ Bell
When will you tell all that you know?
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
Hallelujah
Chapter 3 from Skyway Man's album 'The World Only Ends When You Die', out now from Mama Bird Recording Co. Buy/save/stream/share: https://smarturl.it/mb040
Artwork by Kevin Hooyman. Video by Eric J. Loeffler.
/// Credits & Players:
Written by James Wallace / Rev. Anderson Johnson / Andy Jenkins
Engineers - Alan Weatherhead, Kevin Dailey, James Wallace
Background Vocals - Casey Jane, Camille Weatherford
Guitars - Alan Parker
Additional Guitars - Sean Thompson, James Wallace, Kevin Dailey
Drums/Percussion - Pinson Chanselle
Bass - Cameron Ralston
Piano/Keys - James Wallace
/// Lyrics:
D’you still dread the morning, all its force and light?
Wake up every hour, scream out in the night
You can’t understand what went wrong with this land
Tilt back the bottle, hold my selfish hand. Shit’ll kill ya
But Jesus took the fall, mhmm
Lay down in the fog
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya, I was the fortified wall
Wake up, Mary-Anna, tie your shoes up very well
I’ve come to tell you how the quiet nation fell
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya
I ride the Old Swingin’ Bell
And if the Swingin’ Bell goes wandering by
Get exposed to my stereo light
And if the old Father tells ya, “The great receiver won’t receive ya”
Believe what you like, but when I saw with my own eyes
He said, "We all go out together, it just happens on different nights"
Old Swingin’ Bell, Old Swingin’ Bell
When will you tell all that you know?
Want to make it hopeless, crawl into your shell?
Find a friend to push ya down into the well
If you can’t understand what went wrong with this land
Tilt back the bottle, drive into the Grand Canyon silver
Where Jesus took his fall so well
Bide your time in hell
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya
I'll ride the Old Swingin’ Bell
And if the Swingin’ Bell goes wandering by
Get exposed to my stereo light
And if the old Father tells ya, “The great receiver won’t receive ya”
Believe what you like, but when I saw with my own eyes
He said, "We all go out together, it just happens on different nights"
Old Swingin’ Bell, Old Swingin’ Bell
When will you tell all that you know?
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
Hallelujah
