Jesus Wrote A Blank Check

Got it yet? Jesus wrote humanity a big fat blank check: Get into heaven for free for doing almost nothing, and yet nobody is cashing it in. The line "I hope somebody lends me a dime" is kind of like saying, "this check isn't for money" because he could just use the check if he needed money. Jesus wrote me a blank check, one I haven't cashed quite yet

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it means that despite the fact that Jesus offers him salvation for so precious little, all he concentrates on is earthly things like material possessions, hence "Still I build my towers high" and "Still I burn this earthen fire"

<shrugs> I'm never 100% sure on Cake lyrics, though. =D

To me, the fact that Jesus wrote a blank check means that it's up to you what you write on it. Jesus isn't a "get into heaven free; do whatever you want and you'll be saved" pass, and the he (the singer) knows that, hence " I hope I've got a little more time". He's not ready to be religious and do the things he should, and he continues to "burn this earthen fire", focusing on the world rather than Christ, and "build his towers high", as Nimrod did with the Tower of Babel

ya i agree

I thought that perhaps this song was about politians who try use jesus as a ploy to get into office. I just imagined someone singing this in political satire. Scary!

Sorry for bein long-winded and preachy (especially if I'm wrong)

Yes, I agree with the Tower of Babel reference. The tower was built in order to reach Heaven in our physical bodies to attain proof of its existance, however, God was angered by this (it never took much in the Old Testament) and He destroys the tower, blowing the builders to all corners of the Earth. He then forces them to speak different languages so they can no longer network (hence 'to babel incoharently). In the song I believe that the speaker is is saying that he finds it difficult to have faith and needs proof of God's existance, even though Jesus and his teachings should be all the proof he needs. He continues to lead a 'decadent' life as he burns his earthen fire.

Seems you guys have it down pat.

See also: Jars of Clay's "The Eleventh Hour" songmeanings.net/lyric.php Different approach, less distant from God, but similar message.

I think this song is about Jesus writing out checks to those that don't make it into heaven as some sort of consolation prize.

what is he talking about when he says he wants to be number 1? "i dont want to be number 2?