Where I Like It Best - Rickie Lee Jones

Where I Like It Best - Rickie Lee Jones
I wanted to pray
I wanted to let you go on your way
I wanted to know why they laid there
Dying in the streets
Next to the restaurant
Where people were eating
Yes I wanted to pray
How do you pray in a world like this
You know I see the people on tv
And they close their eyes and they bow their heads
And they say
Let us pray
Feels so cold and meaningless
And I wanted to pray and I said
Tell me father
Tell me mother
Heavenly mother
And they said
When you pray pray alone by yourself
In the secret room of your heart
Don't go out into the church filled with people and pray
God hears every secret that you say
See all those people praying on tv and in the churches
They like to make a big parade out of what they're doing
They think God hears them louder if they say it
Over and over and over and over and over again
That say
God
But I say this
You are the prayer
Your eyes are the prayer
Your hand on your cheek
You are the prayer
Those words you want to speak they are the prayer
That dance you make when you're by yourself
Just before your mother calls you on the phone
You are the prayer
I tell you what you gotta take it back from them
Because the prayers belong to you
All you gotta do is say hey hey
I'm down here too I'm down here too I'm down here too
And I hear you Jesus
I hear you
And I'm near you
Wonder why there's so much suffering
I want to say thank you thank you
Thank you thank you thank you thank you
I wanted to say thank you thank you
I wanted to save
I wanted to save
You are where I like it best
You are where I like it best
You are where I like it best
That's the Lords' prayer
You are where
I wanna be
So
Amen
Just amen
Amen all by myself amen just amen
I'm so lonely just amen
And I'm rising rising just amen
You can look through my eyes
Hears through my heart
Look through my eyes