Oh Jerusalem chords by Lauryn Hill
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Oh Jerusalem yeah, oh Jerusalem,
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oh Jerusalem, oh Jer usalem...
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Verse 2
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Realizing that there's no place
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else to go
And there's nobody I know
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who can help me
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Text book solutions are so
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improbable
'cause everybody else
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is just as empty
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Naked as the day that I was born,
I tried to hide
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...behind education and
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philosophy
Hopeless explanation to
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describe a situation
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I can't see because the
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world's on top of me
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Oh wretched man that I am,
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who will deliver me
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From the body of this death
Freeing me from dust,
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and the superficial trust
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Of an enemy that seeks
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to take my breath
Failing to connect,
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'cause I'm morally defect
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By reason of the God inside my head
Causing me to see,
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only what pertains to me
Believing I'm alive when
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I'm still dead
Limited to earth,
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unable to find out my worth
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'cause I... can't see past
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my own vanity
If I'm not included,
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then I just have to remove it
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From my mind because it has to be in sanity
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Oh wretched man that I am,
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who will deliver me
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From the body of this death
Can I even factor,
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that I've only been an actor
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In this staged interpretation of this day
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Focused on the shadow,
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with my back turned to the light
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Too intelligent to see it's me
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in the way
What a paradox,
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having God trapped in a box
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All this time professing to be spiritual
Naturally pretending,
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that I'm actually defending
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God (?) don't need material
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Oh Jerusalem, wash
Verse 3
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thy heart from wickedness
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That thou may be saved
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from thy deception
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How long, shall thy face
those lies within thee
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Oh Jerusalem,
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keeping thee from perfection
Verse 4
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Submit to truth,
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leave the deception of thy youth
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So we could walk in
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the council of authority
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Forget the proof,
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our generation so aloof
Only follow in the steps
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of the majority
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Trust in the Lord, with all thy heart
And lay not to thine,
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oh an understanding in all thy ways
Acknowledge Him,
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and He shall correct our paths
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Be (?) you can follow him
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We judge and condemn,
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just as ignorant as them
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Who religion tells us that we should
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ignore
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Perpetrating we're in covenant with Him
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Exposed by the very
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things that we adore
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We grin and shake hands,
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then lay ambush for the man
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Who has a different point of
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view then us
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Infuriated 'cause he doesn't understand
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Bringing up those things we
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don't want to discuss
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Why still do evil,
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we don't know how to do good
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Walking on in darkness running from the light,
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Led to believe,
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because we live in neighborhoods
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Telling us what's going on will be alright
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Oh so repressed,
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so convinced that I was blessed
When I played with my
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game of Monopoly
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Oh to suggest, that my life is still a mess
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Who reveal the pride I'm hiding
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is what's stopping me
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Oh Jerusalem, wash
Verse 5
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thy heart from wickedness
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That thou may be saved
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from thy deception
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How long, shall thy face
those lies within thee
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Oh Jerusalem keeping
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them from perfection
Verse 6
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Abide in me and I in you,
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as the branch cannot bare
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...fruit of itself except in the vine
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I am the vine, ye are the branches,
He's in live in me
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And I in him, the same bring
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forth much fruit
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Without me, you can do nothing
Oh Jerusalem,
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you're traditions have deceived you
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I've chosen you, you haven't chosen me
Do whatsoever,
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you asking my name he may give to you
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But in vain they call my name
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teaching doctrines just the same
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Justified among themselves
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But God know with the heart,
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what man esteemed as smart
Is an abomination to Emmanuel
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Just repent,
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turn from selfish motivation
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So iniquity will not cause your demise
Make you a new heart
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and a new spirit
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...for why would he die
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Oh Jerusalem, please tell me why
I have no pleasure in
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the death of him to die
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Says the Lord God where forth turn
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yourselves and live
It's not the talkers,
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but the walkers and his word
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Are the only ones the Father will forgive
Verse 7
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Oh Jerusalem,
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wash thy heart from wickedness
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That thou may be saved
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from thy deception
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How long, shall thy face
those lies within thee
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Oh Jerusalem, providing you no protection
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Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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Oh
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Jerusalem...
Oh Jerusalem
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