Wash Me Clean Lyrics - Bebo Norman

Wash me clean again 

And take me down in your water 

And try to make me understand 

Cause in this life that I live 

I might have grown a little harder 

But so have these times 

Where we just war with words 

And fight for rights to take a life 

In the name of peace 

But we cannot hide behind our picket fences, 

Abortion lines, and worn defenses 

I don't understand 

Touch and go, it survives 

In this land of our fathers 

The bleeding and the needing 

Are left behind 

You say one name out aloud 

While inside you feel another 

But there is some comfort in pleasing the crowd 

So you just raise your hands up to the sky 

And scream a verse that will make them cry 

But when those politics 

They don't stick around 

Those words fight back 

They'll take you down 

And you won't understand 

So Lord search my soul 

And find the need to break this stone 

And plant a seed and find me 

Find a place for me inside