Melissa Etheridge - Like a Preacher lyrics

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 heavens 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