A Minute To Rest And A Second To Pray - Solomon Burke

Though my heart is heavy with grief

My faith is strong, bring me relief

Sometimes my dreams are closer

Sometimes my feelings are so far away

You’ve got a minute to rest and a second to pray

Now I’ve got to fall down on my knees

You can face the west, you can face the east

My tired eyes can see the coming of a better day

You’ve got a minute to rest and a second to pray

A minute to rest and a second to pray

It’s the last thing you hear

The first thing you fear

The sign of the wasted years

And the pain with those tears

Battles across the ocean, battles outside my door

When night falls upon me, falls upon my mind

Before I’d lay, before I’d lay, before I’d lay

I take a minute to rest and a second to pray

You get a minute to rest, just a second to pray

You get a minute to rest and a second to pray

You get a minute to rest and a second to pray

You get a minute to rest and a second to pray

Pray with the women you love

Pray that the heaven’s above

You got a second, you got a minute to rest

Get it in your mind, take up the time

You got a second to pray

Don’t think about yesterday

Take a minute to rest, take a second to pray

You only got a minute to rest, to rest, to rest, to rest