As I walk through the valley   Of the shadow of L.A.   The footsteps that were next to me   Have gone their separate ways      I've seen enough now to know that beautiful things   Don't always stay that way   I've done enough now to know this beautiful place   Isn't everything they say      I heard that evil comes disguised   Like the city of angels   I'm walking towards the light      Baptized in the river   I've seen a vision of my life and I wanna be delivered   In the city was a sinner   I've done a lot of things wrong but I swear I'm a believer      Like the prodigal son, I was out on my own   Now I'm trying to find my way back home   Baptized in the river   I'm delivered, I'm delivered      You're from a small town   You're gonna grow up fast underneath these lights   Down in Hollywood on the boulevard   The dead come back to life      To the praying Mother and the worried Father   Let your children go   If they come back they'll come home stronger   And if they don't you'll know      They say evil that comes disguised   Like the city of angels   I'm walking towards the light      Baptized in the river   I've seen a vision of my life and I wanna be delivered   In the city was a sinner   I've done a lot of things wrong but I swear I'm a believer      Like the prodigal son, I was out on my own   Now I'm trying to find my way back home   Baptized in the river   I'm delivered, I'm delivered      Baptized in the river   (On my own!)   Baptized in the river   (On my own!)   I wanna be delivered      (On my own!)   (On my own!)      Baptized in the river   (On my own!)   I wanna be delivered   Baptized in the river   (On my own!)   I wanna be delivered      Baptized in the river   (On my own!)   I wanna be delivered   I confess I'm a sinner   I've seen a vision of my life   And I wanna be delivered!