Lyrics

Jerusalem Blues
© 2006/2023 J Ferullo

The lights are out in the town again
I’m hiding under the stairs
The stars are dimmed by rocket flames
I hear crying no one’s there
For six nights I have hidden here
When the sirens, like wolves, bay
All I want to do is work my farm

They claim the fight’s about righteousness
Tell that to the kid down the road
They thought his life was in the way, I guess
Collateral damage the toll
Inconvenient people leading their own lives
Someone’s children, some man’s wife

They Speak but they don’t hear at all
when zealots fight, the peaceful fall
people who don’t get to choose
Jacob has the Jerusalem blues

Once this was the Promised Land
Flowing with honey and whey
Jerusalem, heritage of peace
Is anything but that these days
Isaac’s fighting Ishmael
Abram turns in his grave
Good people in a living hell

They Speak but they don’t hear at all
when zealots fight, the peaceful fall
people who don’t get to choose
Jacob has the Jerusalem blues