Rickie Lee Jones - Where I Like It Best lyrics

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 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 I 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 want to be" So, amen, just amen Amen, all by myself, amen, amen I'm so lonely, just amen And I'm rising, rising, just amen You can look through my eyes Hear through my hear Look through my eyes