Salvation Works Lyrics - Playing With Fire - Jennifer Nettles

She's a woman on a mission 

Always in the church 

If you need a ride into town 

Her offer is the first 

yeah she thinks that if she's perfect 

She can outrun all the hurt 

But that ain't how salvation works 

That steeple still needs paint 

But they're out there cuttin' grass 

There's a two line Sunday sermon 

She'll miss cause she drives too fast 

And the message on the marquee 

Reflected in the glass 

is every sinner has a future 

and every saint has a past 

He's a man with a memory 

That turned into a curse 

He keeps every bottle empty 

Til he's numb down to the nerve 

he thinks that forgiveness 

is reserved for souls like hers 

but that ain't how salvation works 

That steeple still needs paint 

But they're out there cuttin' grass 

There's a two line Sunday sermon 

She'll miss cause she drives too fast 

And the message on the marquee 

Reflected in the glass 

is every sinner has a future 

and every saint has a past 

I can't quote the Bible 

The chapter or the verse 

And heaven's just a promise 

For those left here on Earth 

But I believe that God loves us 

More than we deserve 

And I hope that's how 

Yeah I hope that's how 

I hope that's how 

Salvation works 

Salvation works 

Oh I hope that's how 

Yeah I hope that's how 

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