Rich mullins jacob and 2 women lyrics

Jacob, he loved Rachel and Rachel, she loved him 

And Leah was just there for dramatic effect 

Well it's right there in the Bible, so it must not be a sin 

But it sure does seem like an awful dirty trick 

And her sky is just a petal pressed in a book of a memory 

Of the time he thought he loved her and they kissed 

And her friends say, "Ah, he's a devil" 

But she says, "No, he is a dream" 

This is the world as best as I can remember it 



Now Jacob got two women and a whole house full of kids 

And he schemed his way back to the promised land 

And he finds it's one thing to win 'em 

And it's another to keep 'em content 

When he knows that he is only just one man 

And his sky's an empty bottle and when he's drunk the ocean dry 

Well he sails off three sheets to some reckless wind 

And his friends say, "Ain't it awful" 

And he says, "No, I think it's fine" 

And this is the world as best as I can remember it 



Now Rachel's weeping for the children 

That she thought she could not bear 

And she bears a sorrow that she cannot hide 

And she wishes she was with them 

But she just looks and they're not there 

Seems that love comes for just a moment 

And then it passes on by 



And her sky is just a bandit 

Swinging at the end of a hangman's noose 

'Cause he stole the moon and must be made to pay for it 

And her friends say, "My, that's tragic" 

She says, "Especially for the moon" 

And this is the world as best as I can remember it 

And this is the world as best as I can remember it