Teen For God-Dar Williams

[ti:Teen For God] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:My Better Self] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Teen For God - Dar Williams [00:06.93]The sun burns down [00:07.80]Leaving God's bright stamp [00:09.19]On Peach Branch Horse [00:10.63]And Bible Camp [00:12.16]Where we're splashing in the water [00:13.49]Joined in song [00:14.26] [00:14.95]Swimming with the Spirit [00:16.16]The whole day long [00:17.73] [00:18.25]I'm a teen for God [00:19.38] [00:21.44]God is watching teen for God [00:24.84] [00:26.83]God is watching teen for God [00:30.53] [00:32.95]The girls have looks [00:34.05]And the girls have rules [00:35.49]They came here from [00:36.42]Their Bible schools [00:38.24]They can make you pay attention [00:39.73]To the way you dress and eat [00:41.38]Make you trip over [00:42.44]Your own two feet and they [00:44.39]Kneel down on their towels at night [00:46.70]Their nightgowns glow [00:47.30]With a Holy light [00:49.34]And we pray for the sinners [00:50.57]And their drunken car wrecks [00:52.04]And vow that I'll never get high [00:53.91]And have sex [00:54.88] [00:55.50]I'm a teen for God [00:56.73] [00:58.52]God is watching teen for God [01:02.02] [01:04.02]God is watching teen for God [01:07.71] [01:09.82]And God made every leaf [01:11.37] [01:11.91]On every tree [01:12.96] [01:15.38]Each grain of sand [01:16.44]God has a plan [01:18.02]For what we're meant to be [01:22.15] [01:23.02]I gotta wait for God [01:24.14] [01:27.19]Dear Lord [01:27.92]I plan each day [01:29.39]The things I will not do or say [01:31.98]But I'm driven by a passion [01:33.44]Is it only there to tame [01:35.10]It fills my heart [01:35.99]And it calls my name and [01:37.74]This world that you made for us [01:40.22]I know I know is dangerous [01:42.92]So I ride a lot of horses [01:44.47]And I never even swear [01:45.93]Sorta like praying I'm just not there [01:49.45]Oh God [01:50.40] [01:52.28]God is watching oh God [01:55.87] [01:57.84]God is watching [02:00.24] [02:03.60]But God made love [02:04.82]God made the rivers run [02:07.21] [02:09.04]And cowboy boots [02:10.37]And bathing suits [02:11.57]And the boy's skin [02:13.77]Dries [02:14.54]In the sun [02:15.93] [02:16.64]You gotta help me God [02:18.05] [02:20.71]Help me know [02:21.60]Four years from now [02:22.85]I won't believe in you anyhow [02:25.13] [02:25.66]And I'll mope around the campus [02:27.06]And I'll feel betrayed [02:28.61]All those guilty summers I stayed [02:31.29]But then I'll laugh [02:32.75]That I fell for the lure [02:34.37]Of the pain of desire [02:35.36]To feel so pure [02:36.68]And I'll bear all the burdens [02:38.00]Of my little daily crimes [02:39.66]Wish I had a God for such [02:41.71]Cynical times [02:43.15] [02:44.22]Far from today [02:45.65] [02:47.57]But for now I'm a sacred vessel [02:50.10]Rip me open [02:51.32]I spread your word [02:52.60]Like a milkweed pod [02:54.01]I'm a radio station [02:55.42]Your Holy transmission [02:56.93]Even more [02:58.00]Like a lightning rod [02:59.45]I'm a lightning rod [03:01.02]A teen for God teen for God [03:04.95] [03:06.67]God is watching teen for God [03:10.41] [03:12.29]God is watching [03:16.27] [03:17.48]I am a teen for God