Prayed in the ghetto with my   Face in the cement   Heard the last moan of a boxer   Seen the massacre of the innocent   Hurled around for the light switch   Hurled around for his face   Been treated like a farm animal   On a wild goose chase      West side of Jordan   East of the rock of Gibraltar   I see you turn another page   Curtain rising on a new age   The groom still waiting at the altar      Try to be pure at heart   They arrest you for robbery   Mistake your shyness for aloofness   Your silence for snobbery   Got the message this morning   The one that was sent to me   About the madness all becoming   What one was never meant to be      West side of Jordan   East of the rock of Gibraltar   I see you turn another page   Curtain rising on a new age   The groom still waiting at the altar      Don't know what I could say about all that   That wouldn't come back to haunt me   Finally had to give him up   About the time he began to want me   But God have mercy   On them who were slandered and humiliated   I'd have done anything for that man   If he didn't make me feel obligated      West side of Jordan   East of the rock of Gibraltar   I see you turn another page   Curtain rising on a new age   The groom still waiting at the altar      Put your hand on my head baby   Do I have a temperature?   I see people supposed to know better   Standing round like furniture   There's a wall between you   What you want, you've got to leap it   Tonight you got the power to take it   Tomorrow you won't have the power to keep it      West side of Jordan   East of the rock of Gibraltar   I see you turn another page   Curtain rising on a new age   The groom still waiting at the altar      City's on fire   Phone's out of order   They're killing nuns and soldiers   Fighting on the border   What can I say about all that?   Well, I ain't seen him since January   He could be respectably married   Or running a whole house in Buenos Aries      West side of Jordan   East of the rock of Gibraltar   I see you turn another page   Curtain rising on a new age   The groom still waiting at the altar