Teen For God Lyrics - My Better Self - 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, 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'm a teen for God