Amen Lyrics - Paula Cole

Amen, Amen 

I'm siphoning gass from the high school bus 

Into the tank of my beat-up bug 

So I can drive away from the shouting and misery 

I drive into the night, to the hill, to the water tower 

To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower 

Knowing that many men have lain as I do now 

Ptolemy, Copernicus, Carl Jung pondering his existence 

Pondering, Is God with me now? 

And I look to the sky, and I ask these questions 

Yes, I feel something I don't understand 

Can somebody say Amen? Can somebody say Amen? 

My life is but a short and precious seed 

Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree 

And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done 

I will mingle with the earth and give life to the roots again 

Can somebody say Amen? 

And I look to the sky, and I ask these questions 

Yes, I feel something I don't understand 

Can somebody say Amen? Can somebody say Amen? 

Can somebody say Amen? 

Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks 

Amen for our mothers, for the lust to fuck 

Amen for the child with innocent eyes 

Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die 

Amen for NASA, The NSA, it's all a front anyway 

Amen for Marilyn Manson, Saddam Hussein 

Amen for America and the Milky Way 

Amen for Elvis, for Betty Page 

Amen for Gloria Steinem and Ronald Reagan 

Amen for O.J., Clinton too 

Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup 

Amen for Gandhi, for Malcolm X 

Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex 

Amen for Babylon, the third world's call 

Amen for the unity of us all 

Amen, Amen, Amen 

And I am not unique, we are all leave on this great big tree 

This tree that is life, that is God, that is you, that is me 

And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me 

And I ask the stars, "What for?", yes, I feel something I can't explain 

A light that flickers off and on again 

And I look to the sky and I ask these questions 

Yes, I feel something I don't understand 

Oh, can somebody say Amen? Can somebody say Amen? 

Can somebody say Amen? Amen, Amen, oh Amen