Some things I've done
make my conscience burn
My very spine shudder and squirm
I only hope that
I've learned from my sin
I heard a voice
when I was thirteen
Got baptized washed up clean
But the world has a way
if you know what I mean
To scuff you up again and again
I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a falling star
or a feathered wing
Or how a man in chains
has the strength to sing
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more
than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
I swear I see
man that is poetry
Now somebody made
everything
the soul inside out to saturn's rings
How my baby smiles
and how Ray Charles sings
Of course we were created
The clouds make rain
the ocean makes sand
The earth breates fire
and lava makes land
Now that took a mighty hand
And a wild imagination
I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a falling star
or a feathered wing
Or how a man in chains
has the strength to sing
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more
than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
I swear I see poetry
The dreams I dreamed
came back ten-fold
The friends I have to the woman I hold
I look down
and I'm on streets of gold
After all the mud along the way
And sometimes the big old mystery
Just leans right on me
says I'm home and I am free
And I'll take that any day
everyday
I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a falling star or a feathered wing
Or how a man in chains
has the strength to sing
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more
than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
I swear I see
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more
than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
I swear I see
man is poetry