[Chorus]
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
[Verse 1]
Gotta work
Work
While it is day
Work
When night cometh
Work
It will be too late
Work
Go get my Bible
Work
Go get my robe
Work
Gotta preach the gospel to every soul
[Chorus]
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
[Verse 2]
Don't let it be
Too late
Don't let it be
Too late
Take away
That Dei
You couldn't exclude me
Even if you tried
I had to work
All of my life
The power in me can't be denied
Work
[Chorus]
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
Working for Jesus
Before the sun goes down
[Verse 3]
Get up
Gotta go to work
Get up
Gotta go to work
Working
Song Meaning
Deitrick Haddon builds "Working" around a single word repeated until it becomes a rhythm of its own — "work" stated plainly, over and over, attached to specific and slightly countercultural instructions: go get the Bible, go get the robe, "preach the gospel to every soul." The urgency isn't vague motivation; it borrows directly from Jesus' own words about working "while it is day" before night makes work impossible.
"Don't let it be too late" repeats the warning from a different angle, treating time itself as the actual constraint rather than ability or opportunity. "The power in me can't be denied" keeps the song from sounding purely obligatory — the work described isn't drudgery extracted under pressure, it's something the singer claims can't be kept from happening.
The closing "get up, gotta go to work" strips the song down to its simplest form, a call built to be repeated daily rather than reflected on once.