Where I Like It Best
Rickie Lee Jones

I wanted to pray

I wanted to let you go on your way

I wanted to know why they laid there

Dying in the streets next to the restaurant

Where people were eating and yes

I wanted to pray


How do you pray in a world like this

You know, I see the people on tv

And they close their eyes and they bow their heads

And they say Let us pray

And it feels so cold and meaningless

And I wanted to pray

And I said

Tell me father

Tell me mother

Heavenly mother

And they said


When you pray

Pray alone by yourself

In the secret room of your heart

Don't go out into the church filled with people and pray

God hears every secret that you say

See all those people praying on tv and the churches

They like to make a big parade out of what they're doing

They think God hears them louder if they say it

Over and over and over and over and over again


But I say, God, but I say this

You are the prayer

Your eyes are the prayer

Your hand on your cheek

You are the prayer

Those words you want to speak

They are the prayer

That dance you make

When you're by yourself

Just before your mother calls you on the phone

You are the prayer

I tell you what

You gotta take it back from them

Because the prayers belong to you

All you gotta do is say hey hey

I'm down here too, I'm down here too

I'm down here too

And I hear you in the trees

And I hear you

And I'm near you

I wonder why there's so much suffering


I want to say thank you, thank you

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you

I wanted to say thank you, thank you

I wanted to say

I wanted to say

You are where I like it best

You are where I like it best

You are where I like it best


That's the Lords' prayer

You are where I want to be

So, amen, just amen

Amen, all by myself, amen, amen

I'm so lonely, just amen

And I'm rising, rising, just amen

You can look through my eyes

Hear through my hear

Look through my eyes


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  7th Day   A Face In The Crowd   A Lucky   A Lucky Guy   A stranger's car   A Stranger's Car   A Tree On Allenford   After Hours   After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)   Altar Boy   Alter Boy   Atlas Marker (Aviator) (Live) -- with Bill Frisell   Atlas Marker (Bruce Mix-Demo)   Atlas' Marker   Atlas's Marker   Atlas' Marker   Autumn Leaves   Autumn Leaves -- With Rob Wasserman   Autumn Leaves [*]   Away From The Sky   Bayless Street   Beat Angels   Bitchenostrophy   Bonfires   Bonfires In Hell   Bye Bye Blackbird   Carried Into Redemption   Catch The Wind   Chuck E.'s in Love   Chuck E's In Love   Chuck E's In Love   Chuck Es In Love   Circle In The Sand   Circle in the Sand [Instrumental]   Cloud Of Unknowing   Comfort You   Comin' back to me   Comin' Back To Me   Company   Coolsville   Cycles   Danny's all-star joint   Danny's All-Star Joint   Dat Dere   Deep Space   Don't let the sun catch you crying   Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying   Donkey Ride   Driving Away   Drunk On The Striped Table   Easter Parade   Easy Money   Elvis Cadillac   Evening Of My Best Day   Falling Up   Finale; (A Spider In The Circus Of The Falling Sta...   Firewalker   Flying Cowboys   For No One   Gethsemane   Ghetto Of My Mind   Ghost Train   Ghostyhead   Gloria   Gravity   Haunted   Hey Bub   Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo   Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo   Horses   Howard   I can't get started   I Scare Myself   I Was There   I Won't Grow Up   I Won't Grow Up   I'll be seeing you   I'll Be Seeing You   Infinity   It Hurts   It Must Be Love   It Takes You There   Jolie Jolie   Juke Box Fury   Juliette   Just My Baby   Lamp Of The Body   Lap Dog   Last Chance Texaco   Lazy River   Leaving Through The Forest Path   Letters From The 9Th Ward / Walk Away Rene   Letters from the 9th Ward / Walk Away Renee   Liner Notes   Little Mysteries   Little Yellow Town   Living It Up   Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive   Love Junkyard   Low Spark High Heeled Boys   Low Spark of High Heeled Boys   Lush Life   Magazine   Masterpiece   Matters   Mink Coat At The Bus Stop   More at the striped table   My Funny Valentine   My One And Only Love   Night Train   Nobody Knows My Name   Old Enough   On His Jeweled Floor   On Saturday Afternoons In 1963   On The Street Where You Live   One Hand One Heart   One Hand, One Heart   Outside The Great Divide   Pink Flamingos   Pirates ( So Long Lonely Avenue )   Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)   Pirates (So Long, Lonely Avenue)   Play With Fire   Prelude to Gravity   Rainbow Sleeves   Rainbow Sleeves [From the Color of Money]   Reason To Believe   Rebel Rebel   Remember Me?   Road Kill   Rodeo Girl   Runaround   Running From Mercy   Sailor Song   Satellites   Satellites (Demo)   Scary Chinese Movie   Second Chance   Second Time Around   Seems Like A Long Time   Show Biz Kids   Skeleton   Skeletons   Skeletons [Live]   Smile   So Long   Someone To Watch Over Me   Something Cool   Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most   St. James Infirmary   Stewart's coat   Stewart's Coat   StJames Infirmary   Sunny Afternoon   Sunshine Superman Makin' Whoopee! -- with DrJohn   Sympathy For The Devil   Tell somebody (repeal the patriot act now)   Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Act)   Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now)   The Albatross   The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men   The Evening of My Best Day   The Horses   The Last Chance Texaco   The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys   The Real End   The Returns   The Second Time Around   The Unsigned Painting   The Unsigned Painting/The Weird Beast   The Weight   The Weird Beast   Tigers   Traces Of The Western Slopes   Tried To Be A Man   Trouble Man   Ugly Man   Under The Boardwalk   Up A Lazy River   Up From The Skies   Vessel Of Light   Walk Away Renee   We Belong Together   Weasel And The White Boys Cool   Wild Girl   Woody And Dutch On The Slow Train To Peking   Young Blood   Youngblood

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