How I Learned To Pray

When I was sixteen, that set of keys was a pair of wings

Daddy, pretty please, can I take her out tonight?

I swear I won't get her over fifty-five.

With 'Back in Black' racing through my veins,

Last thing I thought was a flip in this thing

Don't get me killed.

I'm pretty sure my old man will.

And seeing his face when the wrecker hauled my freedom away

That's how I learned to pray.

It wasn't in a church with a chapter and a verse

Some preacher made sure everybody heard

Or just some words somebody taught me to say.

I was living like I wasn't long for the world,

Mama always said it'd take a special girl

To get a hold of me,

But I never let one get close to me.

The man upstairs must've heard her prayers,

'Cause I looked up, you were standin' there waitin' on me

Like you were made for me.

And I knew right then and there, I'd been saved

And that's how I learned to pray.

It wasn't in a church with a chapter and a verse

Some preacher made sure everybody heard

Or just some words somebody taught me to say.

I can fold my hands and bow my head,

But there's just some things that can't be said

Without a little walk-on-water kind of faith.

And that's how I learned to pray.

Have you ever looked up at the stars in the sky,

Felt a tug at your heart didn't know why

But you just knew

Someone is up there lookin' out for you.

Well you know just what I mean when I say Grace.

That's how I learned to pray.

That's how I learned to pray.