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"the sun burns down leaving god's bright stamp
on Peach Branch Horse and Bible Camp"




"where we're splashing in the water, joined in song
swimming with the spirit the whole day long"




"I'm a teen for god"




"the girls have books and the girls have rules
they came here from their bible schools"




"they can make you pay attention to the way you dress and eat
they can make you trip over your own two feet"




"they kneel down on their towels at night
and their nightgowns glow with a holy light"




"we pray for the sinners and their drunken car wrecks
and vow that I'll never get high and have sex"




"I'm a teen for god"




"god made every leaf on every tree, each grain of sand
god has a plan for what we're meant to be




I gotta wait for god"




"dear lord, I plan each day
the things I will not do or say




"but I'm driven by a passion
is it only there to tame?




"it fills my heart and it calls my name"




"this world that you made for us
I know, I know it's dangerous"




"so I ride a lot of horses
and I never even swear"




"it's sort of like praying
I'm just not there




"but god made love
god made the rivers run"




"and cowboy boots and bathing suits
and the boy's skin dries in the sun"




"you gotta help me, god"




"help me know, four years from now
I won't believe in you anyhow"




"I'll mope around the campus and I'll feel betrayed
all those guilty summers I stayed"




"then I'll laugh that I fell for the lure
of the pain of desire to feel so pure"




"and I'll bear all the burdens of my little daily crimes
and I'll wish I had a god for such cynical times"




"far from today"




"for now I'm a sacred vessel
rip me open, I'll spread your word"




"like a milkweed pod, I'm a radio station
your holy transmission"




even more like a lightning rod"




"I'm a teen for god"

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"god is watching"




"I'm a teen for god"




"god is watching
a teen for god"

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