Someone Else's Prayer Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

Tonight the brightest moon in a hundred years 

Floods the streets of Rome and I am standing here 

Wondering where the ghosts of antiquity 

Hide on nights like this once a century 

Where do shadows fall when there's only light 

Why'd you follow me halfway 'round the world tonight 

What I'd give right now not to even care 

And then this could be someone else's prayer 

And on a sleepless night by St. Stephen's Green 

Oh I turned and tossed with my Irish dreams 

And when the morning shone through the burned off mist 

I could sense you still just as close as this 

Just as close as lips brush against a cheek 

It's your voice I hear and it's your name I speak 

But when I look around there's no one there 

How I wish you were someone else's prayer 

And now the twilight comes as a silent guest 

And of all its gifts I like stillness best 

Except for tin roof rains that commence with spring 

It's a lullaby when that tin roof sings 

Now you can look for me on the streets of Rome 

Or in Dublin town but I've gone back home 

I would always be just a stranger there 

And now you're free to be someone else's prayer