Released: July 15, 2008
Featuring: Karen Fairchild
Songwriter: John Mellencamp
Producer: T Bone Burnett
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
I’ve been out here in this world too long on my own
I won’t bother You no more
If You can just get me in the door
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
When I started out, I was so young and so strong
I just let it roll off my back when things went wrong
Now it’s starting to get to me
All of this inhumanity
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
You wouldn’t know it by looking at me now
But I was showing some promise once upon a time
But it’s gone now
And it ain’t coming back
My time’s come and gone
It’s as simple as that
Hey Jesus, this world is too troublesome for me
I try to fight off all these devils, but I’m just too weak
When I’m out here walking alone
I feel like taking my life, but I won’t
Too big a coward, can You give me a ride back home?
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
I’ve been out here in this world too long on my own
I won’t bother You no more
If You can just get me in the door
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
When I started out, I was so young and so strong
I just let it roll off my back when things went wrong
Now it’s starting to get to me
All of this inhumanity
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
You wouldn’t know it by looking at me now
But I was showing some promise once upon a time
But it’s gone now
And it ain’t coming back
My time’s come and gone
It’s as simple as that
Hey Jesus, this world is too troublesome for me
I try to fight off all these devils, but I’m just too weak
When I’m out here walking alone
I feel like taking my life, but I won’t
Too big a coward, can You give me a ride back home?
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
Hey Jesus, can You give me a ride back home?
more tracks from the album
On the Rural Route 7609
- The Real Life
- Your Life Is Now
- Don’t Need This Body
- Sweet Evening Breeze
- The Full Catastrophe
- My Aeroplane
- Troubled Land
- Someday the Rains Will Fall
- Theo and Weird Henry
- Women Seem
- Between a Laugh and a Tear
- If I Die Sudden
- Peaceful World
- To Washington
- Colored Lights
- The World Don’t Bother Me None
- Jack and Diane (Writing Demo)
- Jenny at 16
- Rain on the Scarecrow
- Jim Crow
- Big Daddy of Them All
- What If I Came Knocking
- Longest Days
- Sugar Marie
- Mr. Bellows
- Deep Blue Heart
- Love and Happiness
- Someday
- Forgiveness
- To M.G. (Wherever She May Be)
- For the Children
- Freedom’s Road
- Our Country (Alternative Version)
- Jim Crow
- Thank You
- Ghost Towns Along the Highway
- Jackie Brown
- Cherry Bomb
- Jack & Diane
- L.U.V.
- County Fair
- When Jesus Left Birmingham
- Country Gentleman
- Rural Route
- Void in My Heart
- Just Like You
- Rodeo Clown
- A Ride Back Home
- Authority Song
- Grandma’s Theme
- Death Letter
- Young Without Lovers
- Pink Houses
From the albums
- Life, Death, Love and Freedom (2008)
- On the Rural Route 7609 (2010)
John Mellencamp popular songs
- Jack & Diane
- Pink Houses
- Hurts So Good
- Small Town
- Check It Out
- Authority Song
- Rain on the Scarecrow
- I Need a Lover
- Cherry Bomb
- Nothing’s for Free
- Cold Sweat (Live)
- Wild Night (Acoustic version)
- Crazy Island
- The Face of the Nation
- Days of Farewell
- Get a Leg Up
- Rodeo Clown
- When Margaret Comes to Town
- I Ain’t Ever Satisfied
- Junior
- Just Like You
- Lonely Ol’ Night (live)
- Great Mid-West
- Take Home Pay