Prayer For the Gun

On the horizon

Of desert sand

Surrounded by devout

Naked land

We drove out early

Before the dawn

I waited silent

For things to come

And what followed looked like the sun

Before the earth moved

There was a sound

Dark billows rose

Over holy ground

I was tempted

To look right in

Where he could withstand

I pledged to sin

And what followed looked like the sun

Was a prayer for the gun

Ah, ah, ah, ah

As the spirit sent him out to do what he has done

Shouting kingdom come

I fell down upon my knees, to meet my maker with a plea

To make it all undone

'Cause what followed looked like the sun

Was a prayer for the gun

Ah