Um, well, you know It's an altogether new thing And do actually can have a religious experience And, and it can be even more important than reading the Bible six times Or becoming a pope, or something like that, you know ♪ Man, I was sitting around thinking And the smell of mary-j-wuanna leaves was burning a stench in the ashtray Which happened to be hood of my caran Old beat-up station wagon with the high beams burnt out Now, as I said, I was thinking Grandma was always trying to hook me up Into going to the big house She said I'd learn somethin', somethin' right She said, "You'll learn some self respect, boy Learn you some discipline You think just 'cause you went to school and learned you some readin' and some writing too That you're gonna be all right?" But I never really got with it I don't think I ever really understood Until one day my buddy James came down And he said, "I got somethin' for you And it's something good and you can turn on to the father" And I said if its all right for my old man then it's all right for me 'Cause, sh-, if Christopher Columbus might have never really set out to really see somethin' He had never put some balls into it Then I might of started to think the world was flat If it hadn't been for him, if you now what I'm sayin' And they gonna come around like this - can fly and sh- But we really look like two monkeys fu- - beach ball or somethin' 'Cause all I saw was the cross and it was the cross before it came down And I said, "Oh, my God" Oh! That's when I saw, oh That's when I it all, what? That's when I saw, what? That's when I saw, tell That's when I it all, hell That's when I saw God That's when I saw, what? That's when I saw