Jon Bon Jovi - Bang A Drum

I went to see the preacher to teach me how to pray
He looked at me and smiled, then that preacher turned away
He said if you want to tell him something, you ain't gotta fold your hands
Say it with your heart, your soul and believe it and I'd say amen

Bang a drum for the sinners, bang a drum for the sins
Bang a drum for the losers and those who win
Bang a drum, bang it loudly, or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for yourself son and a drum for me
Oohh, let me hear you say yeah (yeah), hallelujah, amen

I called upon my brother, just the other day
He said: John I'm gonna die, if I don't start to live again
I work each day and night like clockwork, just trying to make ends meet
I could kick this bad world's ass, if I could just get on my feet

I'd bang a drum for the dying, bang a drum for the truth
Bang a drum for the innocence, lost in our youth
Bang a drum, bang it loudly, or as soft as you need
Bang a drum for you brother and a drum for me

I don't know where all the rivers run
I don't know how far, I don't know how come
Well I'm gonna die believin', each step that I take
Ain't worth the ground that I walk on, if we don't walk it our way [Guitar solo]

No I don't claim to be a wiseman, a poet or a saint
I'm just another man who's searching for a better way
But my heart beats loud as thunder, for the things that I believe
Sometimes I wanna run for cover, sometimes I want to scream

Bang a drum for tomorrow, bang a drum for the past
Bang a drum for the heroes that won't come back
Bang a drum for the promise, bang a drum for the lies
Bang a drum for the lovers and the tears they've cried
Bang a drum, bang it loudly, or as soft as you need
But as long as my heart keeps on bangin'
I got a reason to believe

(Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, hallelujah, amen)
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen
Come on now (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen
All right girls (yeah) brother (yeah) yeah (yeah) oh yeah
Let me hear you say yeah (yeah) hallelujah, amen

[Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock:]
"You rode a 15 year old boy straight to his grave and the rest of us straight to hell."