From the recording WILDCARDS (SINGLES, 2024-2025)
"Anything helps, God Bless" written by Jeremy Facknitz (https://jeremyfacknitz.com/), copyright 2025.
Recorded LIVE at Mighty Fine Studios in Denver, Colorado. Engineered and mixed by Loren Dorland.
The Jeremy Facknitz Band is Jeremy Facknitz (guitar and vocals), David Siegel (violin), Ricky Sweum (sax), Mike Kimlicko (bass), John Standish (piano) and Brad Plesz (drums).
Lyrics
"Anything Helps, God Bless"
(Lyrics and music by Jeremy Facknitz, copyright 2025 ASCAP all rights reserved)
"Anything Helps, God Bless" says the angel in the median
A tattered cardboard sign confesses "Anything Helps, God Bless"
A victim of a system that clips her broken wings
she is stuck to the ground shuffling around Colorado Springs
Sold her aspirations, pawned her wedding ring
Just one more bum, beggin' for crumbs
'cause that's all that the beggin' brings
She lifts up her head and sings
"Nearer my God to thee, I'm too damn weak to shout
I never asked for nothin' at all
but that's all you seem to hand out.
Nearer my God to thee, I'm too damn weak to shout
I never asked for nothin' at all
but that's all you seem to hand...
"Anything Helps, God Bless" says the angel in the median
A tattered cardboard sign confesses "Anything Helps, God Bless"
I bet she has a pretty name that no one ever says
I bet she once burned quite a flame but few would ever guess
I handed her my pity, never even saw her face
But I wandered off while whisperin' softly "there but for the grace,
there but for the grace"
And she sings
"Nearer my God to thee, I'm too damn weak to shout
I never asked for nothin' at all
but that's all you seem to hand out.
Nearer my God to thee, I'm too damn weak to shout
I never asked for nothin' at all
but that's all you seem to hand...
"Anything Helps, God Bless" says the angel in the median
A tattered cardboard sign confesses...
... that she's goin down
We're goin' down...
"Anything Helps, God Bless" says the angel in the median
A tattered cardboard sign confesses...
"Anything Helps, God Bless, God Bless
Anything Helps, God Bless, God Bless...."