Oh Jerusalem(live)

Oh Jerusalem(live) Lyrics

Song Oh Jerusalem(live)
Artist Lauryn Hill
Album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
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[00:11.61] Oh Jerusalem yeah, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem...
[00:29.13]
[00:34.10] Realizing that there's no place else to go
[00:38.33] And there's nobody I know who can help me
[00:44.24] Text book solutions are so improbable
[00:48.81] Cuz everybody else is just as empty
[00:54.08] Naked as the day that I was born, I tried to hide
[00:59.28] ...behind education and philosophy
[01:04.68] Hopeless explanation to describe a situation
[01:09.71] I can't see because the world's on top of me
[01:15.73] Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me
[01:20.95] From the body of this death
[01:25.68] Freeing me from dust, and the superficial trust
[01:30.70] Of an enemy that seeks to take my breath
[01:35.93] Failing to connect, cuz I'm morally defect
[01:41.44] By reason of the God inside my head
[01:46.48] Causing me to see, only what pertains to me
[01:52.18] Believing I'm alive when I'm still dead
[01:57.25] Limited to earth, unable to find out my worth
[02:01.66] Cuz I... can't see past my own vanity
[02:07.43] If I'm not included, then I just have to remove it
[02:12.87] From my mind because it has to be in sanity
[02:18.10] Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me
[02:23.97] From the body of this death
[02:28.61] Can I even factor, that I've only been an actor
[02:33.90] In this staged interpretation of this day
[02:39.10] Focused on the shadow, with my back turned to the light
[02:44.17] Too intelligent to see it's me in the way
[02:49.53] What a paradox, having God trapped in a box
[02:54.93] All this time professing to be spiritual
[03:00.03] Naturally pretending, that I'm actually defending
[03:05.28] God (?) don't need material
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[03:10.55] Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness
[03:15.74] That thou may be saved from thy deception
[03:21.03] How long, shall thy face those lies within thee
[03:25.56] Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee from perfection
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[03:32.07] Submit to truth, leave the deception of thy youth
[03:35.67] So we could walk in the council of authority
[03:41.46] Forget the proof, our generation so aloof
[03:46.56] Only follow in the steps of the majority
[03:51.91] Trust in the Lord, with all thy heart
[03:55.61] And lay not to thine, oh an understanding in all thy ways
[04:02.47] Acknowledge Him, and He shall correct our paths
[04:07.70] Be (?) you can follow him
[04:12.69] We judge and condemn, just as ignorant as them
[04:17.38] Who religion tells us that we should ignore
[04:23.46] Perpetrating we're in covenant with Him
[04:27.73] Exposed by the very things that we adore
[04:33.07] We grin and shake hands, then lay ambush for the man
[04:38.07] Who has a different point of view then us
[04:43.63] Infuriated cuz he doesn't understand
[04:48.67] Bringing up those things we don't want to discuss
[04:54.02] Why still do evil, we don't know how to do good
[04:58.89] Walking on in darkness running from the light, ey
[05:04.57] Led to believe, because we live in neighborhoods
[05:09.33] Telling us what's going on will be alright
[05:15.07] Oh so repressed, so convinced that I was blessed
[05:20.21] When I played with my game of Monopoly
[05:25.39] Oh to suggest, that my life is still a mess
[05:30.50] Who reveal the pride I'm hiding is what's stopping me
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[05:35.55] Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness
[05:41.05] That thou may be saved from thy deception
[05:46.65] How long, shall thy face those lies within thee
[05:51.04] Oh Jerusalem keeping them from perfection
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[05:57.26] Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bare
[06:02.41] ...fruit of itself except in the vine
[06:07.15] I am the vine, ye are the branches, He's in live in me
[06:12.44] And I in him, the same bring forth much fruit
[06:18.16] Without me, you can do nothing
[06:21.38] Oh Jerusalem, you're traditions have deceived you
[06:28.52] I've chosen you, you haven't chosen me
[06:32.13] Do whatsoever, you asking my name he may give to you
[06:38.75] But in vain they call my name
[06:41.48] teaching doctrines just the same
[06:44.34] Justified among themselves
[06:49.41] But God know with the heart, what man esteemed as smart
[06:54.52] Is an abomination to Emmanuel
[07:00.44] Just repent, turn from selfish motivation
[07:05.56] So iniquity will not cause your demise
[07:10.79] Make you a new heart and a new spirit for why would he die
[07:17.10] Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why
[07:21.14] I have no pleasure in the death of him to die
[07:25.71] Says the Lord God where forth turn yourselves and live
[07:31.06] It's not the talkers, but the walkers and his word
[07:36.02] Are the only ones the Father will forgive
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[07:41.54] Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness
[07:46.77] That thou may be saved from thy deception
[07:52.42] How long, shall thy face those lies within thee
[07:56.81] Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection
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[08:02.25] Oh Jerusalem...
[08:36.06] (The end)
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