Musical Worldview (SBC 2021 Edition): Derek Webb, "Wedding Dress"

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The SBC chose to sing "Modest is Hottest." Maybe this should have been their theme song . . . 

“If you could love me as a wife.
For my wedding gift your life.
Should that be all I ever need?
Is there more I'm looking for?
Should I read between the lines?
Look for blessings in the skies?
Make me handsome rich and white.
Is that really what you want?
'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.

Could you love this bastard child?
No, I don't trust you to provide.
With one hand in a pot of gold
And the other in your side.
'Cause I am so easily satisfied.
With the call of a lover's soul as wild.
I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood.
'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.

'Cause money cannot buy
A husbnd's jealous eye.,
When you have knowingly
Deceived his wife.

'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.

'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.”


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Musical Worldview: Derek Webb, "A King and A Kingdom"

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“Who's your brother? Who's your sister?
You just walked passed him
I think you missed her
As we're all migrating to a place where our father lives
Because we married into a family of immigrants

So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
No, my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a King and a kingdom

There are two great lies that I've heard
"The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die"
And that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
And if you wanna be saved, you have to learn to be like Him

So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
No, my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a King and a kingdom

But nothing unifies like a common enemy
And we've got one, sure as hell
He may be living in your house
He may be raising up your kids
He may be sleeping with your wife
Oh no, he may not look like you think”


  • Visit Derek Webb’s website

  • Follow Derek Webb at Facebook

  • Follow Derek Webb at Twitter

  • Purchase Derek Webb’s music at Amazon

  • Follow the Musical Worldview posts.

  • Read about the Musical Worldview Project here

  • Browse all the installments in the Musical Worldview Project

  • Browse the master list of all the Musical Worldview Project posts