John Saw the Number

John saw the number, John saw the number
John saw the holy number sitting in the golden altar.
The paradise was wide and fair, sitting in the golden altar

Well come along Moses and don’t get lost
Sitting in the golden altar
Well stretch your rod and come along cross
Sitting in the golden altar
Well, John saw the number, John saw the number
John saw the holy number, Sitting in the golden altar.

If religion was a thing that money could buy
Sitting in the golden altar
The rich would live and the poor would die
Sitting in the golden altar.
But I thank my god that it isn’t so
Sitting in the golden altar
For the poor have hope on Canaan’s shore
Sitting in the golden altar.

Well John saw the number, John saw the number
John saw the holy number, sitting in the golden altar