Act of the Apostle II

I’m bored out my mind
Too sick to even care
I’ll take a
little walk
Nobody’s going to know
I’m in senior
year
It gives you a little free time
I’ll just use it
all at once!

Took the fence and the lane
The bus
then the train
Bought an ‘Independent’ to make me look like
I got brains
I made a story up in my head if anybody would
ask
I’m going to a seminar!

I’m a genius
A
prodigy
A demon at Maths and Science
I’m up for a
prize
If you gotta grow up sometime
You’ve to do it on
your own
I don’t think I could stand to be stuck
That’s the way that things were going

The bible’s
my tool
There’s no mention of school!
My Damascan
Road’s my transistor radio
I tune in at night when my mum
and my dad start to fight
I put on my headphones
And I
tune out
I am devout
The girls are singing about my
life
But they’re not here, they’ve got the wild life

If you want to find out, find out
You got to
look them in the eye
That’s why my only choice
Is find
the face behind the voice….

She asked the man
if the service was open
“Not today, just the choir from the
radio”
“Couldn’t I sit in? I’ve come all this way”
“Will you bugger off, I’ve got work to do.”

The
city was losing its appeal
God was asleep
He was back
in her village, in the fields

“Oh, if I could make
sense of it all!
I wish that I could sing
I’d stay in
a melody
I would float along in my everlasting song
What would I do to believe?”