when I was questioned, I shook my head and starred
I was traveling alone and had nothing to declare

he asked how I knew for sure
and would I tell everyone I knew
if it would hurt to know the [bad word] 
I can be thankful to be alive but I despise this life 
in all my years, at best, have only learned just to survive

but when I look around you I understand why you believe
I see your evidence of God all around me

you have, so therefore you are, but I have not
you've seen the evidence of God, but I have not and I have none

I shook my head and laughed
I never had a taste for life 
and I felt there was no turning back

would I try to take away their hope?
replace it with reality
exchange their joy with my bleak view
and leave them miserable like me?

I have searched and I have tried to find a place where I can be
I love my homeland dearly but never carved a place in society

but when I look around you I understand why you believe
I see your evidence of God all around me

you have, so therefore you are, but I have not
you are too rich for hate, and I am too poor to love

when I asked him, he shook his head and stared
I see no evidence of God in the men from the west