Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement
Heard the last moan of a boxerseen the massacre of the innocent
Felt around for the light switchbecame nauseated.
She was walking down the hallway while the walls deteriorated.
East of the Jordanhard as the Rock of Gibraltar
I see the burning of the pageCurtain risin on a new age
See the groom still waitin at the altar.
Try to be pure at heartthey arrest you for robbery
Mistake your shyness for aloofnessyour shyness for snobbery
Got the message this morningthe one that was sent to me
About the madness of becomin what one was never meant to be.
West of the Jordaneast of the Rock of Gibraltar
I see the burning of the stage
Curtain risin on a new age
See the groom still waitin at the altar.
Don t know what I can say about Claudette that wouldn t come back to haunt me
Finally had to give her up bout the time she began to want me.
But I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated.
I d a-done anything for that woman if she didn t make me feel so obligated.
West of the Jordanwest of the Rock of Gibraltar
I see the burning of the cage
Curtain risin on a new stage
See the groom still waitin at the altar.
Put your hand on my headbabydo I have a temperature?
I see people who are supposed to know better standin around like furniture.
There s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it
Tonight you got the power to take ittomorrow you won t have the power to
keep it.
West of the Jordaneast of the Rock of Gibraltar
I see the burning of the stageCurtain risin on a new age
See the groom still waitin at the altar.
Cities on firephones out of order
They re killing nuns and soldiersthere s fighting on the border.
What can I say about Claudette?
Ain t seen her since January
She could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires.
West of the Jordanwest of the Rock of Gibraltar
I see the burning of the stage
Curtain risin on a new age
See the groom still waitin at the altar.

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