Closer To Home (I'M Your Captain)
Grand Funk Railroad
10:09He kind of started all the plants growing, and he started people Well, I guess he's kind of big and fat He can see us wherever we do, whatever we do He has such powerful eyes, he has to have millions and thousands and billions And he can still see us when we're bad He could be sitting on the table right now, but you can't see him He can't be everywhere at once doing everything for everybody Everybody can't get what they want Well, his job is to make us good and make us happy, make us parents good Good is the right thing and bad is the wrong thing When I'm good, my mother never yells at me, when I'm bad she does Good means to obey your mother and father, to do what the teacher says, the things right I feel miserable when I'm, when I'm bad I feel miserable inside, but on the outside I just feel like I feel now I think that there are more people that are bad than there are good And if you're good, you'll live forever And if you're bad, you'll die when you die And if you're bad, you'll die when you die And if you're bad, you'll die when you die Take me down to the water, let me feel it run over me Let me feel the pain and the coldness, the loneliness that there must be Whoa, can't you see their dreams, as they go drifting by? (As they go drifting by) Whoa, can't you see their faces, and their tear-soaked eyes? (And their tear-soaked eyes) I can feel him in the morning, I can feel him in the evening too I can hear him in the morning, tellin' me what I got to do Got to make a new world, ought to make the old one right I can see him in the morning, I can see him in the stars at night Take me out to the battlefield, let me hear the shells flyin' by Let me hear the sound of the cannons, let me hear them scream and cry Whoa, can't you hear their dreams, as they tumble to the blood-soaked ground? Whoa, hear them scream for shelter, from the world they never found I can feel him in the morning, I can feel him in the evening too I can hear him in the morning, tellin' me what I got to do Gotta make a new world, ought to make the old one right I can see him in the morning, I can see him in the stars at night