Ragged hymn of beauty melody high and wide I only wish I’d written it myself She sang it to my brain gorgeous and strange Impossible for anybody else
From the mountains of Killarney to the desert of Khartoum With beauty truth and rhythm she will call From a boom box out in Spain to an ear bud in my room Her anthem made believers of us all
Dear God turn your radio on I surrender from this moment on A gift to all humanity forget your pride and vanity Three minutes of heaven and then she’ll be gone Dear God turn your radio on
With her secret no fear what we needed to hear When it hit me like she turned on the sun What universe was I in where the hell had I been Every bard and poet knew she was the one
Inside every foreign nation it was spoken in tongues Every president and king did understand Even if she was denied when they laid down and died Conversion on the deathbed to a man
When at last she is passed to every corner of the world The music writing history unseen They will move among the living to the broken and the curled From every pub and valley in between