Same Jesus

I was staring into darkness, I called it my old friend But then I heard a gentle, raspy voice, and felt two calloused hands Felt the chill of muddy water, saw the crack of light break in And slowly saw the blur become a man So when you ask if I'm religious, I'm not sure what to say I try my best, but mess up every test, I'm littered with mistakes But my God flipped the tables, exposed the priests, and froze the teachers If your God needs perfection, we don't know the same Jesus If your God needs perfection, we don't know the same Jesus I was caught beneath the sunlight, melting in my shame He knew my deepest secrets, before he could have known my name He put something in the water, said I'd never thirst again I don't know how, but I've never been the same So when you ask if I'm religious, I'm not sure what you mean I've tried to wash and cleanse my dirty hands, but they never come out clean But my God took his time, made water wine, left paradise to reach us If your God needs perfection, we don't know the same Jesus If your God needs perfection, we don't know the same Jesus Stretched across the timber, guilty to the bone Every path and every turn had left me hanging there alone But I begged him to remember me, a man he'd never known And he looked at me with mercy, invited me back home So when you ask if I'm religious, it's a complicated thing I'm forgiven but I'm still broken, saved but wandering But my God loves the guilty, and he broke my chains to pieces But if your God needs perfection, we don't know the same Jesus If your God needs perfection, we don't know the same Jesus