[00:15.94]In the middle of hell
[00:19.78]Lies a little St. Peter
[00:23.89]In a hospital bed
[00:27.50]Burning up
[00:29.37]
[00:31.70]With a cloth to his head
[00:35.61]He is ridden by fever
[00:39.57]And I can't even tell
[00:42.11]Whether the demons have won
[00:45.26]
[00:47.54]And his mother is there with his brother tied to her back
[00:55.35]Praying as hard as she can to a god in a land that I think he forgot
[01:02.37]
[01:03.43]In the middle of hell
[01:07.23]Where death by mosquito
[01:11.18]Is as everyday as my coffee or your cigarette
[01:16.93]
[01:18.26]And she says God bless me
[01:22.31]She says God bless me
[01:26.21]And I shake my head
[01:30.32]Cause I can't see God in this hospital bed
[01:34.36]She says God bless me
[01:38.05]She says God bless me
[01:42.14]And I look away
[01:46.14]But as she lets go of my hand for the first time in this place
[01:51.93]I pray
[01:54.30]Amen
[01:58.05]Amen
[02:02.48]
[02:06.43]I got plenty to give
[02:10.43]But there's nothing to offer
[02:14.31]And the little I brought
[02:17.23]Comes far too late
[02:20.57]
[02:22.43]But I urge him to leave
[02:26.11]With a bottle of water
[02:30.15]He is seven years old
[02:32.65]Sleeping outside pearly gates
[02:36.04]
[02:38.25]And his mother looks at me with eyes I will never let go
[02:46.19]They are angry and sad beyond measure and mad with a child-bearing love that I know
[02:53.46]
[02:54.28]In the middle of hell
[02:57.95]We just sit with each other
[03:02.01]On a hospital bed
[03:04.48]Begging for death to go home
[03:07.85]
[03:09.04]And she says God bless me
[03:13.10]She says God bless me
[03:17.08]And I shake my head
[03:21.06]Cause I can't see God in this hospital bed
[03:24.97]She says God bless me
[03:28.96]She says God bless me
[03:32.86]And I look away
[03:36.84]But as she lets go of my hand for the first time in this place
[03:42.41]I pray
[03:45.01]Amen
[03:48.96]Amen
[03:53.31]
[03:57.50]In the middle of hell
[04:01.67]Lies a little St. Peter
[04:05.36]In a hospital bed
[04:08.91]Burning up
[04:10.59]