She's a little overdressed, but it never hurts to shine She invokes the turtle dove, she awaits the number 9 Standin' alone in the grey of the morning But soon the riders come to wait, and they take their papers out They do not know the girl, but they know that she's about Keepin' the light and the warnin' And the bus comes like thunder And the doves rise around her And she don't mind the winter 'cause she's workin' for jesus And she's workin' for love And she's workin' for love There's a clock beside the bed, there's a bible on the stand She will come home after dark, she will take the book in hand Feelin' the grains of the black leather bindin' And so she speaks to me sometimes of flesh and mortal chains And where the ashes go, and the spirit that remains Risin' like mist, see it shinin' And her words sound like thunder And the spirit has found her And she knows how to reach me Cause she's workin for jesus And she's workin for love And she's workin for love Well, I have set my foot upon the road of black and white I have pa**ed the gates of dawn, I am makin' for the light Barrin' the door on the darkness and sorrow But she is somewhere up ahead, she is far beyond my reach She has walked across the sea, she is sleepin' on the beach Borderin' time and tomorrow And her days pa** in wonder And the angels surround her And she don't even miss me Cause she's workin for jesus And she's workin for love She's workin for jesus And she's workin for love And she's workin for jesus And she's workin for love And she's workin for love And she's workin for love And she's workin for love And she's workin for love