Party Of God Lyrics - Natalie Merchant

In a busy street, a man sits down 

Oblivious to the traffic sounds 

No chaos, no frenzied shrieking crowd 

Thank God their silence, walking heads, bent down 

Come when they saw us 

Called it lethargy 

The treadmill turns 

There down below their feet 

Should I pray for an end to come 

Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly 

Or cross the waves of an angry sea 

Risking, risking and braving, braving 

The shipwreck and the mutiny assailing, assailing 

In a haunted doorway and from the light of day 

See another life fall to ruin in pain 

False smiles from even children it seems 

Landlocked ground for empty and lost dreams 

A league against me 

I hear him say 

It's not worth half the effort 

Or the price you pay 

Should I pray for an end to come 

Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly 

Or should I raise my face to the Heavens above 

And tell God, dear God, stop jeering and jeering 

As our human frailties and all our failings, are we failing? 

Pound, pound on an endless street 

Again and again the nightmare scene 

All strained against the tightened rope 

Not one with a lasting lingering hope 

There's evidence 

Everywhere you see 

Put a quarter down at the newsstand 

So that you can read 

Should I pray for an end to come 

Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly 

Or should I raise my face to the clouds above 

Entreating, entreating 

Their mercy, some mercy 

But as clouds will do, they'll rain down 

First gently, gently and sweetly, so sweetly 

Until they silence me 

With a burst of thunder, thunder and lightning and lightning 

And helpless landlocked screaming 

I know god must be agreeing 

It's the worst part of watching 

It's the worst part of watching 

It's the worst part of watching 

It's the worst part 

Landlocked in screaming 

God must be agreeing 

To be helpless is the worst 

Must be the worst part of watching 

The worst part of watching