Where I Like It Best-Rickie Lee Jones

[ti:Where I Like It Best] [ar:Rickie Lee Jones] [al:The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Where I Like It Best - Rickie Lee Jones [00:24.29]I wanted to pray [00:26.92] [00:30.10]I wanted to let you go on your way [00:34.44] [00:35.82]I wanted to know why they laid there [00:40.71] [00:41.72]Dying in the streets [00:44.70]Next to the restaurant [00:46.56]Where people were eating [00:49.48] [00:51.95]Yes I wanted to pray [00:54.20] [01:08.79]How do you pray in a world like this [01:13.34] [01:15.72]You know I see the people on tv [01:18.86]And they close their eyes and they bow their heads [01:21.91]And they say [01:22.79] [01:24.45]Let us pray [01:26.26] [01:28.73]Feels so cold and meaningless [01:32.27]And I wanted to pray and I said [01:35.01] [01:35.87]Tell me father [01:38.65] [01:39.44]Tell me mother [01:41.57] [01:43.14]Heavenly mother [01:45.31] [01:48.09]And they said [01:48.96] [01:56.07]When you pray pray alone by yourself [02:00.45] [02:01.74]In the secret room of your heart [02:05.16] [02:07.35]Don't go out into the church filled with people and pray [02:11.75] [02:13.24]God hears every secret that you say [02:17.61] [02:21.22]See all those people praying on tv and in the churches [02:25.90] [02:26.80]They like to make a big parade out of what they're doing [02:32.01] [02:32.88]They think God hears them louder if they say it [02:37.45]Over and over and over and over and over again [02:41.16] [02:41.92]That say [02:42.74] [02:45.53]God [02:47.65] [02:52.14]But I say this [02:53.41] [02:56.49]You are the prayer [02:58.49] [03:00.69]Your eyes are the prayer [03:03.15] [03:04.81]Your hand on your cheek [03:08.80]You are the prayer [03:11.04] [03:13.09]Those words you want to speak they are the prayer [03:18.66] [03:21.26]That dance you make when you're by yourself [03:26.14] [03:27.57]Just before your mother calls you on the phone [03:31.92]You are the prayer [03:33.69] [03:35.28]I tell you what you gotta take it back from them [03:38.19]Because the prayers belong to you [03:40.79] [03:43.30]All you gotta do is say hey hey [03:47.11] [03:48.58]I'm down here too I'm down here too I'm down here too [03:55.43] [03:57.76]And I hear you Jesus [03:59.75] [04:00.93]I hear you [04:02.23] [04:03.74]And I'm near you [04:05.30] [04:05.92]Wonder why there's so much suffering [04:08.98] [04:13.93]I want to say thank you thank you [04:16.66]Thank you thank you thank you thank you [04:19.62]I wanted to say thank you thank you [04:21.93]I wanted to save [04:23.43] [04:24.37]I wanted to save [04:27.03] [04:33.72]You are where I like it best [04:36.47] [04:42.85]You are where I like it best [04:45.88] [04:49.17]You are where I like it best [04:52.82] [04:58.29]That's the Lords' prayer [05:00.18] [05:01.06]You are where [05:03.19] [05:04.50]I wanna be [05:05.89] [05:07.28]So [05:08.32] [05:10.15]Amen [05:10.68] [05:12.07]Just amen [05:13.25] [05:14.06]Amen all by myself amen just amen [05:19.08] [05:20.47]I'm so lonely just amen [05:23.40] [05:24.24]And I'm rising rising just amen [05:27.95] [05:31.79]You can look through my eyes [05:34.63] [05:35.78]Hears through my heart [05:38.19] [05:39.01]Look through my eyes