Paula Cole Amen Lyrics

Amen Lyrics

I'm siphoning gass from the high school bus
Into the tank of my beat-up
bug
So I can drive away from the shouting and misery
I drive into the
night, to the hill, to the water tower
To lie on my back and drink in the
meteor shower
Knowing that many men have lain as i do
now
Ptolemy,Copernicus,Carl Jung
Pondering his existence,pondering,
Is
God with me now?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these
questions
Yes,I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say
Amen?

My life is but a short and precious seed
Like three seasons of
life in a leaf on a tree
And when I cascade to the ground I will not be
done
I will mingle with the earth and give life
To the roots
again

Can somebody say Amen?

And I look to the sky
And I ask
these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say
Amen?
Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks
Amen for our
mothers,for the lust to fuck
Amen for the child with innocent eyes
Amen
for Kevorkian and the right to die
Amen for NASA,The NSA
It's all a front
anyway
Amen for Marilyn Manson,Saddam Hussein
Amen for America and the
Milky Way.
Amen for Elvis,for Betty Page
Amen for Gloria Steinham and
Ronald Reagan
Amen for O.J.,Clinton too
Amen for the Republican witch
hunt coup
Amen for Gandhi,for Malcolm X
Amen for the uprising of the
weaker sex
Amen for Babylon, the third world's call,
Amen for the unity
of us all
Amen,Amen,Amen

And I am not unique.
We are all leave on
this great big tree.
this tree that is life,that is God,that is you,that is
me
And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me
And I ask
the stars, "What for?"
Yes, I feel something I can't explain
A light that
flickers off and on again
And I look to the sky
And I ask these
questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Oh,can somebody say
Amen?