Here In America-Rich Mullins

[ti:Here In America] [ar:Rich Mullins] [al:Songs 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Here In America - Rich Mullins [00:54.96]Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story [01:00.08] [01:00.89]And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm [01:05.64] [01:06.52]Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come [01:11.15] [01:12.08]And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America [01:16.44] [01:28.43]And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling [01:33.14] [01:33.78]I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England [01:39.20] [01:39.83]I wish I could be there just to see them two summers past I was [01:44.88] [01:45.61]And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America [01:49.94] [01:51.57]And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint [01:56.21] [01:57.31]The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints [02:00.99] [02:02.20]And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see [02:07.92] [02:08.57]But everywhere I go I'm looking [02:11.30] [02:13.36]And once I went to Appalachia for my father he was born there [02:18.40] [02:19.09]And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children [02:23.64] [02:24.60]And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought [02:29.60] [02:30.22]And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America [02:34.69] [02:36.16]And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps [02:40.41] [02:41.98]Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance [02:45.98] [02:46.57]Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again [02:51.89] [02:54.83]But I am home anywhere if You are where I am [02:58.31] [03:00.91]And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling [03:06.13]I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England [03:11.12] [03:11.77]I wish I could be there just to see them two summers past I was [03:16.91] [03:17.73]And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America