You can buy your clothes on Fifth Avenue
You can buy them at the five-and-dime
Spend your money on cards or musicals
But the clock keeps ticking out time
You can live your life on cigarettes
Coca Cola and moonshine
Or you can run five miles and take vitamins
You will still walk down the line
Now people here talk about eternity
They just feel doubtful or afraid
But truth is the very best medicine
It's time to get real and get saved
There's change that's coming from day to day
Everything fades away
You turn your head and everything's past
'Cause mister this world don't last
You can give your vote to the president
Pay your taxes every time
Or live your life like a dissident
You will still walk down the line
Now people here talk about eternity
They just feel doubtful or afraid
But truth is the very best medicine
It's time to get real and get saved
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You can dress in Cosmo or cotton
You can wear a mitre or a crown
Play the straight man or the comedian
But the end will still come around
Well you might be thinking about government
Or thinking about being entire
But it doesn't really matter what you think about
You will still walk down the line
Now people here talk about eternity
They still feel doubtful or afraid
But truth is the very best medicine
It's time to get real and get saved
St. Paul didn't talk about policy
He talked about the life of faith
He talked about life in Jesus Christ
Let's live before it's too late
Foxes have homes to live in
Son of Man, nowhere to rest
They say to get going while the going is good
Get going right now is the best
'Cause life in the Cross it's a living tree
The life that shines through the haze
Truth is the very best medicine
It's time to get real and get saved
It's time to get real and get saved