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 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