Oh Jerusalem - Live

Oh Jerusalem yeah, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem...
 Realizing that there's no place else to go
 And there's nobody I know who can help me
 Text book solutions are so improbable
 Cause everybody else is just as empty
 Naked as the day that I was born, I tried 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 in sanity
 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 this 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 through my facade don't need material
 Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness
 That thou may be saved from thy deception
 How long, shall thy face those lies within thee
 Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee from perfection
 Submit to truth, leave the deception of thy youth
 So we could walk in the council of authority
 Forget the proof, our generation so aloof
 Only follow in the steps of the majority
 Trust in the Lord, with all thy heart
 And lay not to thine, oh an understanding in all thy ways
 Acknowledge Him, and He shall correct our paths
 Be not wise in thine own eyes and you can 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 then us
 Infuriated cause he doesn't understand
 Bringing up those things we don't want to discuss
 Why still do evil, we don't know how to do good
 Walking on in darkness running from the light, ey
 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
 Who reveal the pride I'm hiding is what's stopping me
 Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness
 That thou may be saved from thy deception
 How long, shall thy face those lies within thee
 Oh Jerusalem keeping them from perfection
 Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bare
 Fruit of itself except in the vine
 I am the vine, ye are the branches, He's in live in me
 And I in him, the same bring forth much fruit
 Without me, you can do nothing
 Oh Jerusalem, you're traditions have deceived you
 I've chosen you, you haven't chosen me
 Do whatsoever, you asking my name he may give to you
 But in vain they call my name
 Teaching doctrines just the same
 Justified among themselves
 But God know with the heart, what man esteemed 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 would he die
 Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why
 I have no pleasure in the death of him to die
 Says the Lord God where forth turn yourselves and live
 It's not the talkers, but the walkers and his word
 Are the only ones the Father will forgive
 Oh Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness
 That thou may be saved from thy deception
 How long, shall thy face those lies within thee
 Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection
 Oh Jerusalem...