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   Cuz 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, cuz 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   Cuz 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 insanity   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, only material      Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness,   that thou mayest be saved. How long   shall thy vain thoughts lodge 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, own understanding in all thy ways   Acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths   Be be not wise in thine own eyes that 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 cuz 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   Would reveal the pride I'm hiding is what's stopping me      Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness,   that thou mayest be saved from thy deception.    How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?   Oh Jerusalem, keeping thee 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   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 knowth 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 dieth   Says the Lord God wherefore 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 thine heart from wickedness,   that thou mayest be saved from they deception   How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?   Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection.      Oh Jerusalem...