Conversation

I wrote this song in response to the conflict I experienced between what the Church seemed to say about refusal to conform, following God, openness, etc. and what I took as their rejection of those very things in their unwillingness to accept what I felt (and feel) very strongly was God's calling to me.

A little conversation

Conversation

What do you do with these blank eyes asking questions

Do you answer?

And what do you do with these faces starved for info

Do you spew

And just get blank eyes in return

mouths either shut or speaking concern

to your apparent utter lack of discernment?

Should you start a conversation

Just a little conversation

Now you have talked and the world knows half and half

You're on its side

Good thing it's just half, 'cause the world's both always right

and always wrong

We all face suspicion from both sides

of the equation, it's easy to confuse

The persecuted with the persecutors of good

What I'd do for conversation

Just a little conversation

Should I ask for remission

Or kneel down and grovel, pleading with the world to care?

Or should I ask for conversation

Just a little conversation

What does one do when one's elders question,

Dispute?

What does one do with divine calls ringing,

Dilute?

So's the repute of the bright side

It's on the light side of the loot

But we love it, so we deal with the mental crisis ensued

What I'd do for conversation

Just a little conversation

Should I ask for remission

Or kneel down and grovel, pleading with the world to care?

Should I ask for conversation

Just a little conversation