Oh Jerusalem Lyrics

Realizing that there's no place else to go

And there's nobody I know who can help me

Text book solutions are so improbable

Cuz everybody else is just as empty

Naked as the day that I was born, I tried to hide

...behind education and philosophy

Hopeless explanation to describe a situation

I can't see because the world's on top of me

Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me

From the body of this death

Freeing me from dust, and the superficial trust

Of an enemy that seeks to take my breath

Failing to connect, cuz I'm morally defect

By reason of the God inside my head

Causing me to see, only what pertains to me

Believing I'm alive when I'm still dead

Limited to earth, unable to find out my worth

Cuz I... can't see past my own vanity

If I'm not included, then I just have to remove it

From my mind because it has to be in sanity

Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me

From the body of this death

Can I even factor, that I've only been an actor

In this staged interpretation of this day

Focused on the shadow, with my back turned to the light

Too intelligent to see it's me in the way

What a paradox, having God trapped in a box

All this time professing to be spiritual

Naturally pretending, that I'm actually defending

God (?) don't need material

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness

That thou may be saved from thy deception

How long, shall thy face those lies within thee

Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee from perfection

Submit to truth, leave the deception of thy youth

So we could walk in the council of authority

Forget the proof, our generation so aloof

Only follow in the steps of the majority

Trust in the Lord, with all thy heart

And lay not to thine, oh an understanding in all thy ways

Acknowledge Him, and He shall correct our paths

Be (?) you can follow him

We judge and condemn, just as ignorant as them

Who religion tells us that we should ignore

Perpetrating we're in covenant with Him
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Exposed by the very things that we adore

We grin and shake hands, then lay ambush for the man

Who has a different point of view then us

Infuriated cuz he doesn't understand

Bringing up those things we don't want to discuss

Why still do evil, we don't know how to do good

Walking on in darkness running from the light, ey

Led to believe, because we live in neighborhoods

Telling us what's going on will be alright

Oh so repressed, so convinced that I was blessed

When I played with my game of Monopoly

Oh to suggest, that my life is still a mess

Who reveal the pride I'm hiding is what's stopping me

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness

That thou may be saved from thy deception

How long, shall thy face those lies within thee

Oh Jerusalem keeping them from perfection

Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bare

...fruit of itself except in the vine

I am the vine, ye are the branches, He's in live in me

And I in him, the same bring forth much fruit

Without me, you can do nothing

Oh Jerusalem, you're traditions have deceived you

I've chosen you, you haven't chosen me

Do whatsoever, you asking my name he may give to you

But in vain they call my name

teaching doctrines just the same

Justified among themselves

But God know with the heart, what man esteemed as smart

Is an abomination to Emmanuel

Just repent, turn from selfish motivation

So iniquity will not cause your demise

Make you a new heart and a new spirit

...for why would he die

Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why

I have no pleasure in the death of him to die

Says the Lord God where forth turn yourselves and live

It's not the talkers, but the walkers and his word

Are the only ones the Father will forgive

Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness

That thou may be saved from thy deception

How long, shall thy face those lies within thee

Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection

Oh Jerusalem...

Lauryn Hill Oh Jerusalem