Where I Like It Best

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 and 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" and



It 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



But I 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 in the trees, and 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 say, I wanted to say



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

Hear through my heart, look through my eyes