Jerusalem

Lyrics

When I tell you that I love you
 Don't test my love
 Accept my love
 Don't test my love
 Cause maybe I don't love you all that much
 Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight
 Just stay awhile
 Hear for yourself awhile
 And if you must put me in a box
 Make sure it's a big box
 With lots of windows
 And a door to walk through
 And a nice high chimney
 So we can burn burn burn
 Everything that we don't like
 And watch the ashes
 Fly up to Heaven
 Maybe all the way to India
 I'd like that
 All the ancient kings came to my door
 They said, "Do you want to be an ancient king too?"
 I said, "Oh yes, very much
 But I think my timing's wrong"
 They said, "Time is relative,
 Or did you misread Einstien?"
 I said, "Do you really mean it?"
 They said, "What do you think we come here for
 Our goddamn health or something?"
 Everybody's waiting for the messiah
 The Jews are waiting
 Christians are waiting
 Also the Muslims
 It's like everybody's waiting
 They've been waiting a long time
 I know how I hate to wait
 Like even for a bus or something
 An important phone call
 So I can imagine
 How darned impatient
 Everybody must be getting
 So I think it's time now
 Time to reveal myself
 I am the Messiah
 I am the Messiah
 Yes, I think you heard me right
 I am the Messiah
 I was gonna wait till next year
 Build up the suspense a little
 Make it a really big surprise
 But I could not resist
 It's like when you got a really big secret
 You're just bursting to tell someone
 It was sorta like that with this
 And now that I've told you
 I feel this great weight lifted
 Dr. Nusbaum was right
 He's my therapist
 He said get it out in the open
 I spent ten whole days in Jerusalem
 Mmmm Jerusalem
 Sweet Jerusalem
 And all I ate was olives
 Nothing but olives
 Mountains of olives
 It was a good ten days
 I like olives
 I like you too
 So when I tell you that I love you
 Don't test my love
 Accept my love
 Don't test my love
 'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much
 

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Song Details

Duration
03:44
Key
8
Tempo
111 BPM

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