you don’t have to believe anymore
it’s all come true
your years spent as a sinner
let you know
what it means to be a saint
and you’ve rolled seven
so many times
on those street corners
those streets
that walk by themselves
and no one can count that high
you let the devil in
just so you could see what he’s all about
and you found out
he wasn’t enough
there are roads
that they forgot to name
and jimmy and elvis and chet
they know who you are
and when your songs come up
on that twilight radio
in that old convertible
they stop talking
and just listen
they forget
that those are stars up there
in the desert sky
on that forgotten highway where they roll
they forget
for that five minutes
that there is such a thing
as death
or life
because there is neither
there is both
there is you
running away from home
just so you could find a way back
there is you
being hustled
there is you
learning the wrong way
because that’s how you find out
what’s right
they say one day at a time
because there is only one day
they tell you to give yourself
to a higher power
but there isn’t a higher power
than yourself
and that’s why it’s so hard
you have to find god
in the most unlikely of places
you aren’t looking for the light, kid
you are the light