Where You Been

He was driving in to Chicago in a borrowed El Camino,
On a hazeless day in springtime I think the Cinco De Mayo.
Maybe it was St Paddy's Or the Gay Pride parade,
But I've never seen nobody light up the street that way.
Chorus:Brother/ Sister where you been? Hold on if you can.
Just do your best then
say, "Amen."
Called in sick and spent the weekend, drinking St Paulies 
in Wisconsin.
I'd been fishing with my buddies most of Sunday afternoon.
And there beneath the halo of the Old Milwaukee sign,
He said, There's big ones in the shallows I see them all 
the time.
Chorus
I stopped into the Seven-Eleven, I was buying an Aquafina.
He was wearing knock-off sneakers I was nursing a hangover.
He said, "You're worth a lot more baby than you've ever 
dared to dream of."
Like he knew all the secret sketchy places I'd been looking
 for love
Chorus
A tall skinny guy with dread locks said they're giving' out
 free bagels & lox.
So I took the kids and all my plastic bags and walked the 
seven blocks.
There were joggers and commuters, skate board kids and 
Goths.
There were drunks and dogs and meter maids in that downtown
 vacant lot.
He said, "The universe is unfolding and the center still is
 holding,
There's enough if we just share it, now ya'all don't forget
 to pass the basket.
Blessed are all the good hearted, the poets and the 
dreamers,
And all us crazy holy hungry ones who believe in something 

better."
Chorus
I saw Jesus on talking shop, with Buddha at the Starbucks,
I saw Gia and Ganesh, doing double Dutch in the park,
And Mohammad was throwing popcorn to the pigeons and the 
sparrows.
And all us crazy holy hungry ones still believe in 
something better,
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