Ben Harper Quotes

I believe in a few things:
God the devil and love.
'Cause I've looked up from the bottom
And I've stared down from above.<p>I have faith in a few things:
Divinity and grace.
But even when I'm on my knees
I know the devil prays.<p>And you're working your way
From the ground on down.

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers
Promises and lies both have their dangers.
I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough
So far away, but I still feel your pain.

The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning.

Now that you've grown up
You can finally learn to be a child
We made it to the end of the world
But we'll never make it out alive.

Some things
You have to let be lost
Some battles, some battles
You have to leave unfought.<p>Then the truth just wastes away
In all we dare not say.
And in all we can't explain
But I faithfully remain.

Could've sworn I heard you say amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe
Did it fall from your tongue without warning or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
Did I hear you say that you believe in angels? I guess I bring the devil out in you.
But we can both remove our halos 'cause even an angel needs love too.
Even angels need love too.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken,
Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

Take my hand when you are worried
Take my hand when you're alone
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home.

You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise.

The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane
Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name
Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame
A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place.

Where did you learn to do that so well?
Where did you learn to do that so well?
I guess that would be like kiss and tell.
If it's a secret, why did you show me?

Fools will be fools,
And wise will be wise.
But I will look this world
Straight in the eyes.<p>What good is a man
Who won't take a stand?
What good is a cynic
With no better plan?

A candle throws its light into the darkness
In a nasty world, so shines the good deed
Make sure the fortune, that you seek
Is the fortune you need.

Listen stranger, passerby,
And those I never knew.
There's not one day that you are living
Has been promised to you.