Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Real Trick lyrics

Christopher turned sixteen on a
Chemical dependency wing
And on family week his mama come up and she
Says "I ain't gonna stay
For this whole thing"
She says "I've got more
Important things to do
Than to listen to this ungrateful son"
Chris said "If being a parent's so tough
How come just anybody can be one?"

Sweet Melissa
She turned her first trick at seventeen
For some backstage passes and
Some hash that's in the back of a limousine
And now she's seen it all and she don't
Want to be here or even anywhere
And at twenty-two she's got
What the boys down
At the VA call the "thousand yard stare"

But the real trick is to find a reason
To believe in spite of all of this
And the big secret is
What you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with

Miss Helen Petty
She lost her husband of forty-two years
Now she don't know what to
Do with herself and
She just can't seem to stop the tears
And she can't sleep at night and she
Is so afraid and so alone
But there are these bastards who take
Advantage of these precious desperate souls

Like, there's this man on
Sunday morning on TV
Who jumps around and screams and shouts
And he says to get me into heaven is
The only thing that he is about
But to get there I've got
To believe what he believes
Well if that's the case I
Believe I'll take my
Chances when it's time for me to leave

But the real trick is to find a reason
To believe in spite of all of this
And the big secret is
What you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with

We're all lengthening shadows cast
By a sinking sun so we need this reason to
Believe in something or someone
It is so hard to accept these
Many things on faith alone
And we feel betrayed by life when
The infidelity is our own

I don't concern myself with
How Jesus was born
Or if he was raised from the dead
I believe what it comes down to
Was the things that he said
So many more than Judas has betrayed his name
This beautiful ancient wisdom's been
Prostituted for personal gain

But the real trick is to find a reason
To believe in spite of all of this
And the big secret is
What you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with