Joshua: 45-46 Songtext
von Josh Radnor

You feel like you are seventeen
Your back says you are forty-five
At least it does this morning
You′ve lost the kicks from your old tricks
In a week you will be forty-six
The birthdays come without warning

How did I get so old
I'm not really old but I′m no longer young
And now I'm playing this guitar
It feels so good to sing, my fingers on these strings

And I get stopped in airports because I played an architect
Some people think that's who I am
It used to drive me crazy, and some days it still does
But I′m learning how not to give a damn

What do they think of me
What a waste of time I′ve wasted so much time
With all those years of walking blind
I was hypnotized, mud upon my eyes


Oh Joshua
He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old Jericho
And now I bear his name and I'm doing the same
The walls are coming down

I started writing songs when I was just north of forty
I try to write some everyday
I wish that I had started sometime in the nineties but I′m not sure I had much to say

Oh with my Leo sun, Sagittarian moon, born late afternoon
With all that fire in my chest, I have had to learn how not to get burned

And Richard says that God is love, I'm starting to believe him
I can feel it in the mountains and the water in the air
And Julian said that all is well
Teresa said "There is a hell
It′s just that no one's there."

I know it′s good to be alive
It's good to have a body
It's good to have a mind
And I, I′m done with right and wrong
God is not a test but arms where I can rest


Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old Jericho, And now I bear his name and I′m doing the same
Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old Jericho, And now I bear his name and I'm doing the same
Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua. He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua, He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old, in old Jericho, And now I bear his name and I′m doing the same