Lyrics

Lucy needs a part to make her Apache pickup run
Kate is singing songs about the rain
now and then a Greyhound bus comes rolling down the road
but Loretta isn't coming back again

I left Loretta in Laredo
by the neon Jesus sign
you can take that rusty halo
and roll it down that thin white line

She was always searching for a glimpse of something real
a way that she could be in the world
hippie beads and meditation didn't fit so well
she was not a transcendental girl

She first saw him on the tv on a Sunday show
beamed in from another broadcast zone
he told he could save her if she could pass Jesus' test
she sent a hundred dollars by the phone

I left Loretta in Laredo
by the neon Jesus sign
you can take that rusty halo
and roll it down that thin white line

He was wired into angels, covered in white light
he looked a bit like Elvis from the side
reading from a teleprompter, swaying to the right
he was helping Jesus to save lives

Soon she needed spiritual infusion everyday
his TV church as in the Lone Star state
We sole everything we owned and headed down the road
in a car with California plates

I left Loretta in Laredo
by the neon Jesus sign
you can take that rusty halo
and roll it down that thin white line

There's cobwebs on the swingset
and nobody sweeps the porch
the gravel road is baking in the sun
the weeping willow in the yard whispers in the breeze
and none of this is seen by anyone

I left Loretta in Laredo
by the neon Jesus sign
they may all be friends of Jesus
I’m not sure they’re friends of mine

Don't look for Jesus on the tv
don't let the tv steal your voice
and don't ever go to Texas
unless you have no other choice