I Want To Go Lyrics - First Love - Larnelle Harris

Brought up in the church against your will 

Forced to sit through sermons and be still 

Making trouble for the Sunday School teacher 

Running through the pews 

Just a child then 

You were wide-eyed and confused 

Screaming on the bus with all the youth 

More concerned with dating than with truth 

Too cool to join the choir, too smart to go to school 

Church was boring 

And the scriptures, just more rules 

[Chorus:] 

But all through the years 

Your eyes and ears 

Saw just enough of Christ among the people here 

To know that you could trust 

To know that you were loved 

Until there came the day 

Your heart could finally say (pray) 

I want to go where You are going, Lord 

I want to be among Your people where You are 

I cannot live my life alone 

I don't know how 

But You would not bring me this far to leave me now 

Finally off to college for the fall 

Fifty different lifestyles down one hall 

Your professors question everything 

Your roommates test your faith 

And easy answers seem so out of place 

Running from the chapel with your spouse 

And making monthly payments on the house 

You were living for your children 

And they up and moved away 

Your friends seem older 

And worry fills your days