[00:14.07]Some have crosses bells that ring
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[00:17.42]Most have angels painted with wings
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[00:20.60]Old men and blind ones can find their way in
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[00:23.70]Got statues and apostles and other godly things
[00:27.30]
[00:33.97]In desserts they build them of mortar and clay
[00:36.47]
[00:37.35]In barrios they stick them by fire escapes
[00:40.59]They outlast the setbacks of earthquakes and plagues
[00:43.97]They burn them like haystacks and another one is raised
[00:47.34]In the backwoods of the country and the empire state
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[00:50.66]Wherever there's somebody at the crossroads that waits
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[00:54.28]At the junction of right now and a little too late
[00:57.55]You'll see one before you with wide open gates
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[01:00.98]It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints
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[01:11.47]There could be a casket bums on the steps
[01:14.66]A baby in a basket being left
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[01:18.09]It's a good place to shuffle when you've gone through the deck
[01:21.40]It's the closest to heaven on earth you can get
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[01:24.84]It's a shelter a poor man it'll humble a great
[01:28.21]It's where derelicts and outlaws can hide for a day
[01:31.67]The worst hearts you've known can be salvaged and saved
[01:35.11]In the room that same lovers' vows are exchanged
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[01:38.61]It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints
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[01:50.93]You'll sin till you drop
[02:14.19]Then ask to be saved
[02:19.07]If it's a comeback you want
[02:22.76]Then get your hands raised
[02:26.12]There's more than a few on nearly every map
[02:29.88]More than a couple alone on this path
[02:33.00]You ought to be in one when you beg your way back
[02:36.37]Cut off at the knees at its feet you'll collapse
[02:39.81]It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints
[02:46.57]It's a hospital for sinners ain't no museum of saints