Thea Hopkins: Music
Jesus Is On The Wire
(Thea Hopkins)
Thea Hopkins
I wrote this song after reading an article about Matthew Shepard. It also happened to coincide with me seeing the film, "Boys Don't Cry" the same week.
People have often asked me how PP & M ended up recording my song. It happened in a very curious fashion. I entered the song into the contest Noel Paul Stookey has every couple of years through his Public Domain Foundation, for social causes. The song was not a winner, not even a finalist. But several months after the contest ended, I received an email(all in lower caps),"hi, i am the tall balding guy in the middle of peter, paul & mary and we love your song. can we perform it?"
True story!
Jesus Is On The Wire
(dedicated to the memory of Matthew Shepard)
Run-down church, red clay
River covered in a smoky haze
Sunday morning, the fires out
Sunday morning, no one about
The earth is soft, this time of year
Boots get caked from there to here
Down the road, route 25
Found this boy barely alive
(Chorus) Jesus is on the wire
So far away, higher and higher
Took him down, off a fence
Cold as ice, almost dead
They said that he slept with guys
They said that he was gonna die
(Chorus) Jesus is on the wire
So far away, higher and higher
Sometimes at night you hear the sound
Of cars that stop where he was found
A small white cross, Wyoming skies
Mark the place where that boy died
(Chorus) Jesus is on the wire
So far away, higher and higher (repeat)
Copyright 2001 TheaHopkins