Jerusalem

Jerusalem

(for Racheal) 

Send me the heroes who have 

lost all their gold

Who knelt to false angels who 

purchased their souls

The ones who have sold their clothes

for the cloth

The ones who melt devils then

wail their loss

And I will trade a million days

for their one thousand nights

Perhaps the dark surrounding them

will make them seek the light 

We'll dance on Rocks between the mounts until we stench the flow 

Of corpses filling heavens they were never meant to know

I offer you these million days

to save one thousand nights

The dark will sooth their wounds

and sleep will take the fight

Even as the harbor burns the ships before the glow

We will sing in places where only rabbis go

and sing them songs 

of sunny days lost and

far ago

Before the day extended to son above and also

son below 

Promise me your thousand nights to my one million days

A thousand nights of peace

is worth double what I pay

As Jesus and Mohammed pray in caves throughout the land

I'll have them up and dancing with nails in their hands

Forgotten woes still sting the wounds

that wail on the wall

Allahakbar cries the morning but no one heeds

the call

Make to me the fair exchange but remember in the light

That days are always shorter and dimmer than the night

And hard the wine and blood will flow

until a dozen ships ago 

A young girl died and closed her eyes and missed her falling star

Still Helen could not want for more; she did not start nor end the war

She died so many years ago

I will pay a million days for her one thousand nights

A thousand nights of love are worth 

a million days of strife

And tell her gently

do not come again

The war and the Eternal City will not end

......

Jerusalem must await

A race of better men