Teen for God by Dar Williams Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The sun burns down leaving God's bright stamp
At Peach Branch Horse and Bible Camp
Where we're splashing in the water, joined in song
Swimming with the spirit the whole day long
[Chorus]
I'm a teen for God, God is watching
A teen for God, God is watching
Teen for God
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
I'm a teen for God, God is watching
A teen for God, God is watching
Teen for God
[Bridge]
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
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
Oh God, God is watching
Oh God, God is watching
[Bridge]
But God made love, God made the rivers run
And cowboy boots and bathing suits
And the boys' skin dries in the sun
You gotta help me, God
[Verse 4]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Teen for God, God is watching
A teen for God, God is watching
I'm a teen for God
The sun burns down leaving God's bright stamp
At Peach Branch Horse and Bible Camp
Where we're splashing in the water, joined in song
Swimming with the spirit the whole day long
[Chorus]
I'm a teen for God, God is watching
A teen for God, God is watching
Teen for God
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
I'm a teen for God, God is watching
A teen for God, God is watching
Teen for God
[Bridge]
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
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
Oh God, God is watching
Oh God, God is watching
[Bridge]
But God made love, God made the rivers run
And cowboy boots and bathing suits
And the boys' skin dries in the sun
You gotta help me, God
[Verse 4]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Teen for God, God is watching
A teen for God, God is watching
I'm a teen for God