Dear God from Learning Faith by Jess Klein

Dear God
tell me what I’m gonna do
between bad and worse
what am i gonna choose

I tried
to see the doctor today
but the governor slammed the door
right in my face
and I’m seventeen years old
is my time already told
with the baby of a baby on its way

Chorus
And it’s life
it’s life
it’s life that’s got me talkin’ now to you
was it life
sweet life that brought me down
or some old man who says he speaks for you

Dear God
I planned on going to school
keepin’ up my grades
gain the proper tools
now I’ll
be stuck here just like everyone else
stackin’ boxes on some WalMart shelf
or carryin’ to term
a child who’ll never learn
why his mama gave him up to someone else

Chorus

Dear God
gonna go down to the depot tonight
do what I gotta do
in the flickering light
got the name of a place
out on 56
for some kind of price
they’ll give me some kind of fix

In the land of the free I’ve come to this

Chorus

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