I left Wichita on a cracked western road   For Missouri and all of her caverns   To hide like an outlaw from what I have heard   There are some things in life I don’t want to learn      But I am not Lewis or Clark; I am only a man   That gets lost in his questions like,   “Why doesn’t love heal when we need it most?”   Will somebody give me the answer I need?      I’d sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means   And just who I am praising   I don’t think that I can express it in words,   So I let the melody do all my speaking      Just when I think I am safe and secure   There’s that haunting again in my conscience   The ticking, the tapping of cold memory   Like a steel radiator that's run out of steam      We're pushin' and pullin', we hold ourselves down,   It starts with the small things   So I will keep trying to become the man that you need   And remember you taught me to sing      And I’d sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means   And just who I am praising   I don't think that I can express it in words,   So I let the melody do all my speaking      Take what you need   I'm not taking it anymore   Oh, take what you need   I'm not taking it anymore      I’d sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means   And just who I am praising   I don't think that I can express it in words,   So I let the melody do all my speaking