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Artist: Morrissey
Canonical path: /morrissey/israel
Related lyric paths: 6
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Israel
Read Israel lyrics by Morrissey on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Israel
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You realize if you're happy
Jesus sends you straight to hell?
Israel, Israel
And should you dare enjoy your body
Here tolls hades welcome bell
Israel, Israel
You've found a middle-course existance
We are all bones and flesh and shell
Israel, Israel
I can't answer for what armies do
They are not you
They are not you
They are not you
In other climes they bitch and whine
Just because you're not like them
Israel, Israel
The sky is dark for many others
They want it dark for you as well
Israel, Israel
Earth is just one big asylum
An explodes a prison cell
See us squirm in our own
Damaged spell
You were born as guilty sinners
Before your stood upright you fell
Put the fear of many gods
In Israel
Nature gave you every impulse
Who are virgin priests to tell
You, how to love, how to live
Israel?
And they who rain abuse upon you
They are jealous of you as well
Love yourself as you should
Israel
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Morrissey performs "Israel", and this lyric page sits inside the Morrissey catalog on LyroVerse.
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