When I was young I grew up in a Christian family  I wanted to please my parents  I wanted them to be so proud of me  So I took their faith and I learned their religion  And I went to a church where everyone was a Christian   I strayed far, but i'm fine    Then I went away to school and I found new friends  I wanted to please them too, to be liked by them  And if they didn't need God, then neither did I   And I got to be so busy, that He pretty much slipped my mind    Well I've been out of school and I'm finally alone  No one to telll me what to do, but no beliefs to call my own  But in my moments of loneliness, in my desperate independence  I wondered if there was a God and if He cared where I'd been    I strayed far but I think I've missed You, God, all this time    And when I'd run, till I'd run out  When being broken made me look a second time  Well now I can see, I can see clearly  That You've been with me all this time    I strayed far, but You've been with me, God, all