[00:01.08]The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
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[00:11.40]Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement,
[00:14.95]Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent
[00:19.60]Felt around for the light switch, became nauseated.
[00:24.03]She was walking down the hallway while the walls deteriorated.
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[00:29.13]East of the jordan, hard as the rock of gibraltar,
[00:37.11]I see the burning of the page, curtain risin' on a new age,
[00:42.98]See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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[00:56.03]Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,
[01:00.10]Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery,
[01:04.55]Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me
[01:09.62]About the madness of becomin' what one was never meant to be.
[01:13.72]
[01:15.60]West of the jordan, east of the rock of gibraltar,
[01:22.26]I see the burning of the stage,
[01:25.07]Curtain risin' on a new age,
[01:28.83]See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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[01:43.76]Don't know what i can say about claudette that wouldn't come back to haunt me,
[01:45.49]Finally had to give her up 'bout the time she began to want me.
[01:48.91]But i know god has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated.
[01:57.32]I'd a-done anything for that woman if she didn't make me feel so obligated.
[01:58.43]
[01:58.94]West of the jordan, west of the rock of gibraltar,
[02:06.89]I see the burning of the cage,
[02:08.71]Curtain risin' on a new stage,
[02:11.18]See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
[02:14.34]
[02:26.79]Put your hand on my head, baby, do i have a temperature?
[02:29.11]I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
[02:33.71]There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it,
[02:37.94]Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won't have the power to
[02:41.48]Keep it.
[02:42.35]
[02:42.89]West of the jordan, east of the rock of gibraltar,
[02:49.37]I see the burning of the stage, curtain risin' on a new age,
[02:59.11]See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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[03:14.70]Cities on fire, phones out of order,
[03:15.04]They're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border.
[03:17.53]What can i say about claudette?
[03:20.07]Ain't seen her since january,
[03:22.42]She could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in buenos aires.
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[03:27.30]West of the jordan, east of the rock of gibraltar,
[03:35.27]I see the burning of the stage,
[03:37.67]Curtain risin' on a new age,
[03:40.13]See the groom still waitin' at the altar.