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Reaching Jerusalem
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Kneejerk
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let's look to the hands of the weak
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for the scars of more genuine living.
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i'm stuck in this intellectual rut
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trying to find an explanation
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in the wrong language.
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weak at the knees but strong
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at the top of my spine.
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Oh Solomon, who am I kidding?
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i'm doubting like a philistine.
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(behold thy walls Jerusalem...)
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my throat is sore from crying and my bed is wet with tears.
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i have no stone tablet for anyone
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so tell me why
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are you waiting for me to give you textbook answers
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before you start to move?
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i can't secure
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your fading wealth because it sickens me.
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so let us part the clouds
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and start your mind in a fresh day,
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and put aside the things you learned.
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let's stretch out our fingers
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and we might
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just get to that promised land
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before we suck it's life away.
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and so we're reaching,
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trying to shift the focus from the world to myself
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and those around me who i love.
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and so we're reaching,
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trying to conceive the size of lightyears
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and trying to save the world that sustains us.
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and yes we're reaching,
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one building block at a time
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until the roofs of our houses disrupt jerusalem.
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so nearly reaching,
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so close and yet so far.
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just one last tear-stained exertion to get to that elusive contact.
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