Name: You can't get there from here
Duration: 2 min 54 s
Channel: Wes Hayes
Description: "You can't get there from here" is a song by Wes Hayes. We have to let go of the past if we want to get to the promised land.

You can't get there from here

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We have to let go of the past if we want to get to the promised land.

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Wes Hayes

singer/songwriter. Country/Gospel songs about life!

Wes Hayes singer/songwriter/musician. Hello to all, I am a 38 year old school teacher and basketball coach here in the great state of Oklahoma. I am a lifelong sports fanatic having played high school football and basketball. The latter was my meal ticket having gone on to play @ Bacone Junior College and Northeastern State University. After graduation I went into coaching. I come from a family of educators/athletes who inspired me to become a coach/teacher. I have always LOVED music, whether it be singing or playing music. I'm certain my love of music comes from my family and two very different genres/roots. My father is a native of san francisco and my mother from the small town of Mclain, Oklahoma. I tell people that sometimes I would go visit my father and have "the best of earth, wind, and fire", and go back home to my mother, grand-parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and the hee-haw show!I love all types of music and always felt that I could be in this "business". I think if you love it then it's not a business. I have played drums since the age of 10 and picked up a guitar at 29 at the encouragement of my bluegrass buddy superstar Steve Baldridge of Goldwing Express! Also at his encouragement I began writing. I knew I could but just never put it on paper. Well I did, and of course I'm biased but I think I do pretty well with it. After 38 years of hard living- some on my own,(but most was just the hand I was dealt), I feel I have written some songs that hit home with people. That is what I try to do, but feeling these songs and living them make them happen. I feel that a good song will hit home with many people, but a great song will touch all the people! If you like original songs then your in the right place. No cover songs, just songs about life, love, god, and a few sinnin' songs! All songs written/sung/played by yours truly. Songs were produced at Drapp Studio's with Louis Drapp and Jason Hargrove. Louis also played guitar and bass while Jason sang harmony and produced. Much thanks and appreciation for these two tremendously talented guys!

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country and Western

Charts

Peak #78

Peak in subgenre #6

Author

Wes Hayes

Rights

WesHayes Music

Uploaded

August 16, 2006

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MP3

MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 2:54

Story behind the song

I wrote this song while reading the book purpose driven life. There was a sentence in the book that was talking about letting go of the past in order to grow and become more christ-like and ultimately gain entrance to heaven. The sentence struck a nerve with me. I have hindered my spiritual-growth in years past because I haven't let go hurts/events. Although Jesus Christ has never sit down by me in a bar, I have been stubborn enough that he very well could have and I just never knew it! It's about me and a little dressed up. It's a bit long, but I can make a cut or two if it were ever picked up by radio or published. Special thanks to Jason Hargrove and Louis Drapp. Both of these guys have been overdosed w/ talent from the good Lord. Jason sings intro (amazing grace) and harmony and Louis absolutely tore up every instrument he put his hands on ! Also special thanks to Dan Megeehee from Cowboy Church Ministries for making this recording possible!

Lyrics

starin' at the bottle, waitin' for the next, when a man pulled up a barstool next to me.
he said, may I ask a question, and I told him yes, then the words he said just blew me away.
he said, son do you know Jesus, and I told him yes, are you fairly certain of your fate
again I boasted how I've known him for quite some time and I 'm sure he'll be waitin' on me at Heaven's gate.

And he said, son I like your style, then he laughed and he kind of smiled and said I see myself in you, I know what your going through, I been down the road less-traveled, I've had many lives to salvage
and if you know him like you say you do, then you know his words of love are true, that his father sent him here to shed his blood and his tears and if you want to get to heaven,  son your can't get there from here, no you can't get there from here.

then I drank down my last bottle and he took me for a ride and we wound up at the house where I was raised,
he said, I saw your first kiss there, and I watched you break your hand and your mama cut the hairs numbered on your head.
and he said, in your darkest hour, I was by your side, when you held your baby boy, then I looked into his eyes and I knew that I'd been taken, I was talking to the Lord.

And he said, son you've had a while, but you live in complete denial, he said, I've saved you once before, when the devil was at your door, when his whiskey wet your lips, you were standing on his steps.
and if you know me like you say you do, then you know my words of love are true, that my father sent me here, to shed my blood and my tears, and if you want to get to heaven, son you can't get there from here, no you can't get there from here

And I said, Lord I like your style, then I laughed and I kind of smiled, I guess you know what I been through, can you make me be like you, it was my life that you salvaged going down that road less-traveled,
and yes I know you like I say I do, and I know those words you spoke are true, that your father sent you here to shed your blood and your tears, and if I want to get to heaven, I can't get there from here, no you can't get there from here, son you can't get there from here.

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