I believe we were truly made in the image of god
I believe Jesus walked on water
I believe I was made in the image of god
I believe I can walk on water

I spend most of my time tearing my self apart
And the rest of my time putting my self back together
Maybe if I didn’t spend so much time tearing my self apart
I’d have more time for other things
For love and sailing and badminton

Today the clouds look like they were pained on the sky
Or blown like hot marshmallows
Today thought I could fly and kept falling off the roof
‘cept the second to last time when I levitated a little

Now the big bang was like a baby getting born
And the parents who gave it birth just kind of went away
And the baby just keeps getting bigger and bigger
And the parents just never came back

hey – there are people alive who are truly magicians
hey – I’ll take our football team against a team from the past any day

today I barked at a bird on the sidewalk
barked like a dog and waited for him to fly away
but he just looked at me with a kind of compassion
a kind of bird compassion and I thought we might be friends

our stomachs are not flat like washboards
and sometimes that makes me unhappy
maybe if they were flat I’d be happy
or maybe I’d find other things to be unhappy about
like our faces or our butts or how dumb tv is

I’ve been sponsored by Nike
and the words Nike or swoosh or something have to appear in every song
as in Marilyn Monroe didn’t wear air jordans
as in if she had maybe she’d have fucked henry miller four times a day

three months ago I got hit on the head by a walnut
I suffered total amnesia and I forgot everything
I had to learn all these songs over from scratch
from the madman who wrote them

I believe we were truly made in the image of god
I believe Jesus was a maniac on jet skis
one day I’ll learn how to use jet skis too
in the meantime watch me swim
in the meantime I’m swimming as hard as I can

hey – there are people alive who are truly magicians
hey – I’ll take our football team against a team from the past any day
let me play quarterback, I’ll know their weaknesses
let me play quarterback
let me play quarterback, I’ll know their weaknesses
let me play quarterback, at least for a quarter

(lyrics: Dan Bern)