City Prayer

CITY PRAYER
Copyright © John thomas Oaks and Sam Holtzapple
Caliora Music Publishing, ASCAP
from the album VEGAS BLUE

Guitar: Mark Boling

Select video footage by Cal Oaks

Grime on my trees
Grime on my streets
Grime in my rivers, too
Rivers a color no river should know
Gloom in my skies
Gloom in my parks
Smoke where my flags once flew
Oh, where I'd go if just once you allowed me to go

Send me to a mountainside
Let me spend a day there
Let me breathe
Breathe and sleep and pray there
On a mountainside

Send me to a waterfall
Let me shed my steel there
Let me bathe
Bathe and drink and feel there
In a waterfall

Prairie
Send me to a distant prairie
Just to lie down in the grass
In a place Where nothing else need come to pass
Where nothing else need come to pass

Then

Send me back where I belong
Let me find the sun there
Let me shine
Shine till day is done there
Till all my days are done
Till all my days are done
Till all my days are done
Till all my days are done