How I Learned To Pray

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When I was sixteen, that set of keys
 was a pair of wings
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Daddy, pretty please, can I take 
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her out tonight?
I swear I won't get her over 
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fifty-five.

With Back in Black racing through my
 veins, last thing I thought
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Was if flipping this thing don't get
 me killed.
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I'm pretty sure my old man will.
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And seeing his face when the 
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wrecker hauled my freedom away
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That's how I learned to pray.


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It wasn't in a church, with a 
chapter and a verse
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Some preacher made sure everybody 
heard
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Or just some words somebody taught 
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me to say.


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I was living like I was long from 
the world, mama always said
It'd take a special girl to get a 
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hold of me,
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But I never let one get close to me.


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The man upstairs must've heard her 
prayers,
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Cause I looked up, you were 
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standin' there waitin' on me
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Like you were made for me.
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And I knew right then and there, 
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I'd been saved
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And that's how I learned to pray.


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It wasn't in a church, with a 
chapter and a verse
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Some preacher made sure everybody 
heard
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Or just some words somebody taught 
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me to say.
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I can fold my hands and bow my head,
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But there's just some things that 
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can't be said
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Without a little walk on water 
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kind of faith.
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And that's how I learned to pray.

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Have you ever looked up at the stars
 in the sky, felt a tug at your 
heart
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Didn't know why but you just knew
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Someone is up there lookin' out 
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for you.
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Well you know just what I mean when
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 I say Grace.
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That's how I learned to pray.

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That's how I learned to pray.


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