Like a Preacher - Melissa Etheridge

Are you lying there on the cold, dark ground?

Your skin and bones are bare, you stare without a sound

What is it in your mind that lights the fuse this time?

What do you want so bad that you have never had?

Could it be dangerous to light the flame and just

Feel the warmth again?

Make it rise again

Remember your last time you tried to let it in It scorched the walls, torched the halls

And then it melted your skin

Like a preacher, save you from the fire

I won’t let you burn

Like a preacher, gonna lift you higher

I won’t let you burn

Oh, I won’t let you burn

The feelings you repress, the thoughts you don’t confess

They grow inside the dark, make ashes of your heart

You recklessly adore the idols keeping score

But no-one ever wins, they just start the game again

You chose the cross you bare and pick the chains you wear

Your Heaven’s in your mind, your Hell’s a valentine

Come closer now, express this longing so divine

On your knees, be blessed, let it possess you one more time

I am a sermonizer, an on-the-street evangelizer

Virtuous and sanctified

You innocence is glorified, there’s a part that’s incomplete

Your hungering is so discrete

Take this now, for it’s my body

A little death can be so godly

Like a preacher, save you from the fire

I won’t let you burn, I’ll save you

Come, come

Come follow me to the deep inside

Where Heaven is love is alive

Come follow me to the deep inside

Where Heaven is love is alive