Lyric discussion by JohnDuran 

Cover art for Jacob's Ladder lyrics by Huey Lewis and the News

From reading various websites about 80s music, this song apparently targeted television evangelists, which sounds about right. Kind of in the vein of "Jesus He Knows Me". In comparison, however, the Genesis tune is much better, even though Jacob's Ladder is much better at sounding like a song of epic proportions. I just wish they would've given this a proper video, since Huey and his News tend to do wacky videos (not necessarily good).