I Got Religion, But I Still Feel the Heat

     I took a summer class for the first time this year. It was four weeks long with class three hours at a time Monday through Friday. Class started at 8:30am and went until 11:30 with a 15 minute break, you know, for posterity's sake. Anyway, I have very strong feelings about this class being done so I wrote a gospel song to celebrate. It was a lovely class and I learned a lot, but I'm still ridiculously glad it's over. Without further delay, here are the lyrics to my original song "I Got Religion, But I still Feel the Heat":

Verse 1:

The school year brought me low low low

And I was feeling so bluuuuueeeeeeeee

I didn’t know how I was going to make it

I didn’t know what to doooooooooo

So I set down my options right in front of me

And decided to take a class, offered for three

Thousand American dollars, right here in the USA

This isn't Jesus...Just looks like him

I stood right up and I just had to sayyyyyyy                             

Chorus:

I GOT RELIGION! But I still feel the heat

Yes I got religion! Those school year blues is beat

I won’t have to take this class with the others next year

Instead of having summer fun I’ll just stay right here!

I got religion I got religion but I’m still feeling that heat.

Verse 2:

Those first few days of class, well they went all right

I opened my Bible and read those texts almost every night

I wake up at the crack of dawn so early the next day

I’d hop right out of my cozy bed and this is what I’d sayyyy

It’s too dang much to take this class three hours at a time

Those four month classes, well right now they look sublime

I only have to take them three hours every week

But in my head I heard a voice and this is what it shrieked

Chorus:

I GOT RELIGION! But I still feel the heat

Yes I got religion! Those school year blues is beat

I won’t have to take this class with the others next year

Instead of having summer fun I’ll just stay right here!

I got religion I got religion but I’m still feeling that heat.

Verse 3 (dramatically spoken interlude):

I missed the class two times all told and got B’s on all the tests

The papers and the projects, well, they were some of my best

I’m happy now that those four long weeks are done

Now it’s time for me to step out for my time in the sun

Chorus:

Feel it, let the spirit move you, too,

I’ve no longer got religion, I’ve been freed from classroom heat     

I’ve no longer got religion and those school-time blues is beat

I packed up all my notebooks, said goodbye to each last one

Trade my backpack for a beach bag cause summer school is done!

I’ve no longer got religion but I learned an awful lot

Like about good old Moses and the problems that he got

I’m glad for all the things I’ve learned and all those things I’ve done

But I’ve no longer got religionnnnnn!!! Now it’s my turrnnnnnnnnnnn in the sunnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!