WHY DON’T YOU PRAY
Kathryn Keats & Lorenzo Conti Music & Lyrics
C 2005 BMI

It’s my first day of freedom
For many a day
My ages are older now
My hearts miles away
From the moment I saw him
And heard how he played
I fell hard and fast
Yeah
But he could not stay

Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray

Well ya know I spent twenty years
Almost half alive
I don’t recommend it
You’ll forget how to cry
You’re constantly wondering
And looking for him
It’s no way to live
I say
An imposed Prison

Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray

(Instrumental break)

They say he died of those cigarettes
Burned out his lungs
But I know he died way before
In Vietnam
At twenty-one
And I do not blame him
For all of that pain
I’m glad for the man
Oh
That God finally came

Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why can’t we pray
Why don’t we pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you pray
Why don’t you
Pray