Teen For God

Teen For God - Dar Williams

The sun burns down

Leaving God's bright stamp

On Peach Branch Horse

And Bible Camp

Where we're splashing in the water

Joined in song

Swimming with the Spirit

The whole day long

I'm a teen for God

God is watching teen for God

God is watching teen for God

The girls have looks

And the girls have rules

They came here from

Their Bible schools

They can make you pay attention

To the way you dress and eat

Make you trip over

Your own two feet and they

Kneel down on their towels at night

Their nightgowns glow

With a Holy light

And we pray for the sinners

And their drunken car wrecks

And vow that I'll never get high

And have sex

I'm a teen for God

God is watching teen for God

God is watching teen for God

And God made every leaf

On every tree

Each grain of sand

God has a plan

For what we're meant to be

I gotta wait for God

Dear Lord

I plan each day

The things I will not do or say

But I'm driven by a passion

Is it only there to tame

It fills my heart

And it calls my name and

This world that you made for us

I know I know is dangerous

So I ride a lot of horses

And I never even swear

Sorta like praying I'm just not there

Oh God

God is watching oh God

God is watching

But God made love

God made the rivers run

And cowboy boots

And bathing suits

And the boy's skin

Dries

In the sun

You gotta help me God

Help me know

Four years from now

I won't believe in you anyhow

And I'll mope around the campus

And I'll feel betrayed

All those guilty summers I stayed

But then I'll laugh

That I fell for the lure

Of the pain of desire

To feel so pure

And I'll bear all the burdens

Of my little daily crimes

Wish I had a God for such

Cynical times

Far from today

But for now I'm a sacred vessel

Rip me open

I spread your word

Like a milkweed pod

I'm a radio station

Your Holy transmission

Even more

Like a lightning rod

I'm a lightning rod

A teen for God teen for God

God is watching teen for God

God is watching

I am a teen for God