Amen

<br>I`m siphoning gas from the high school bus<br>Into the tank of my beat-up bug<br>So I can drive away from the shouting and misery<br>I drive into the night, to the hill to the water tower<br>To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower<br>Knowing that many men have lain as I do now<br>Ptolemy, Copernicus, Carl Jung<br>Pondering his existence, pondering<br>Is God with me now?<br><br>And I look to the sky<br>And I ask these questions<br>Yes, I feel something I don`t understand<br>Can somebody say Amen?<br><br>My life is but a short and precious seed<br>Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree<br>And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done<br>I will mingle with the earth and give life<br>To the roots again<br><br>Can somebody say Amen?<br><br>And I look to the sky<br>And I ask these questions<br>Yes, I feel something I don`t understand<br>Can somebody say Amen?<br>Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks<br>Amen for our mothers, for the lust to fuck<br>Amen for the child with innocent eyes<br>Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die<br>Amen for NASA, the NSA<br>It`s all a front anyway<br>Amen for Marilyn Manson, Saddam Hussein<br>Amen for America and the Milky Way<br>Amen for Elvis, for Betty Page<br>Amen for Gloria Steinem and Ronald Reagan<br>Ame for O.J., Clinton too<br>Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup<br>Amen for Gandhi, for Malcolm X<br>Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex<br>Amen for Babylon, the third world`s call<br>Amen for the unity of us all<br>AMEN, AMEN, AMEN<br><br>And I am not unique<br>We are all leaves on this great big tree<br>This tree that is life, that is God, that is you, that is me<br>And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me<br>And I ask the stars, "What for?"<br>Yes, I feel something I can`t explain<br>A light that flickers off and on again<br>And I look to the sky<br>And I ask these questions<br>Yes, I feel something I don`t understand<br>Oh, can somebody say Amen?