Praise the Lord - Poi Dog Pondering

Praise The Lord

By Poi Dog Pondering

Wishing Like A Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea

Columbia CK 45 403 1990

«Praise the Lord,» he said to me

And he seemed quite happy

He seemed quite at ease

And I said … «Yeah.»

Cause I was just down at the sea

And it occurred to me

That I like to feel it knock me down

Twist and throw and churn me around

'Cause it’s the mother ocean

And I’m just one of her sons

And she can do just what she wants to me

And I know she does nothing purposely

I must respect, that goes unsaid

But it’s all just a twist of fate

And I know about heaven’s gate

'Cause I’ve seen it, but not up close

And I know it ain’t no pearly white

And I know that I’ll be nothing there

Just food for fish and twisting worms

But that’s just fine with me

'Cause when I’m being tossed by the sea

I can feel a force greater than Misery

Greater than my stupid job

Greater than our stupid Bomb

And a time comes to mind without complexity

And she can do just what she wants to me

And I know she does nothing purposely

I must respect, that goes unsaid

But it’s all just a twist of fate

So don’t tell me about the Land of Nod

Where we are supposed to sit at the right hand of God

Where the Lion will lay down the the lamb

'Cause you know damn well he’ll eat him if he can

The Lion doesn’t wanna be pacified

With promises of an endless life

'Cause he knows it’s not that way

He’s not detached he sees it everyday —

The birth, the death and the decay

The birth, the death and the decay

And he accepts, and sees that it’s OK —

He would eat us for our elitist ways