Heavenly Sign

I was born in the currents the rapids and streams
Where the locals were rolling down boulders at me
And I was a pilgrim exhausted and lost
Till that ferryman pulled me across

I was sent to the coast to a monastery
Where I just drank 'neath a poster of a ship lost at sea
And misunderstood every word I was told
Till those saints kicked me out in the cold

Oh but it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
With me

And they gave me a bed, in a brightly lit cell
But I escaped to the pastures
The moon in full swell
And I begged for salvation in every language I knew
Till that shepherd he showed me to you

Oh but it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
With me

We weathered pestilence, violence, and smoke
We survived by the fire when power lines broke
And when ashes and scars were all that we wore
That bastard he gave us some more

In the cell and the sea
In the cave and the wood
Used to look in the distance and ask if I could
One day be given that heavenly sign
But I had had it the whole damn time