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I remember that place where I laughed and played,
I drank and bathed near the pools of your riverbed
but I'm farther away passing nights and days
just me all alone with the monsters in my head

and they crawl and they creep and show their teeth
and their tongues wag twisting everything you said
so I'm driving back roads with a bloody nose
and an empty soul looking for that fountainhead

so fill it up!
fill my cup up Jesus
ya and soak my head beneath the water spout

wash it all off!
wash it clean now Jesus
because I reek with the stench of doubt

I got a little drawer full of letters and cards
from all kinds people saying all kinds of things to me
saying 'my oh my, what a great guy, good job, good work,
ya been such a blessing to me'

but I always need one more, gimme one more!
there's always something someone hasn't said about me
see it don't matter how much, it's never enough,
there's a hole in the pocket of my pride and my vanity

so fill it up!
fill my cup up Jesus
because no one else is ever gonna do

take it all back!
take it all back Jesus
everything I've stolen from you

but yonder's the small print
signed in blood at the bottom of the form
it says, 're-read the guidelines son,
cuz you're gonna get what you ask for
and there at the new birth,
from the time you see the light,
you're no longer hidden from that on which it shines'

and so Elijah sleeps beneath the broom tree
praying that he might not live to see another day
and Jeremiah weeps through Jerusalem's streets
choking on the words that he's been told to say

and Jonah's fleeing like a bat out of hell
trying to catch the last boat setting sail for the Tarshish bay
and I'm picturing you in the garden dark,
holding a full cup, asking if there's any other way

so fill it up!
fill my cup up Jesus
and I guess mix in the wormwood and the gall

fill it up!
to the brim now Jesus
and have mercy Lord, when I don't drink it all

(Jer. 20; Jonah 1; 1 Kings 19; Matt. 26:36-46; Luke 19:41-44)

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from Go Home to Your Friends, released October 6, 2011

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Meet the collaborative songwriting effort of two brothers. Currently based out of New Orleans and Madison, Ben and Scott Cunningham grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. They love alt-country, the key of G, acoustic guitars, fishing, Jesus, and the world he created. For 15 years and running, together they write and record songs about these things, calling this effort The Olive Tree. ... more

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