Oh Jerusalem

Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem

Realizing that there's no place else to go and there's nobody I know who can help me

Textbook solutions are so improbable 'cause everybody else is just as empty

Naked as the day that I was born, I try 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 'cause 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 'cause 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 insanity

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 the 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, thru my façade, only material

Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved from thy deception

How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee

Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee from perfection

Submit to truth, leave the deception of thy youth so we can walk in the council of authority

Forget the proof, a generation so aloof, only following the steps of the majority

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own understanding

In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths

Be not wise in thine own eyes or

You can't 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, 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 than us

Infuriated 'cause he doesn't understand, bringing up those things we don't want to discuss

Wise to do evil, we don't know how to do good

Walking on in darkness, running from the light

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

Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayest be saved from thy deception

How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee, Oh Jerusalem, keeping them from perfection

Abide in me, and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except in the vine

I am the vine, ye are the branches

He that live in me, and I in Him the same bring forth much fruit

For without me you can do nothing, Oh Jerusalem

Your traditions have deceived you

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

That whatsoever you ask in my name He may give to you

But in vain they call my name, teaching doctrines just the same, justified amongst themselves

But God knoweth the heart

What man esteems 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 will ye die?

Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why?

I have no pleasure in the death of Him that dieth, says the Lord God wherefore turn yourselves and live

It's not the talkers, but the walkers in His word

Are the only ones the Father will forgive

Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved from thy deception

How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee, Oh Jerusalem

Providing you no protection

Oh Jerusalem, oh, ya, oh, Jerusalem oh, ya, oh