The Groom's Still Waiting At the Altar

Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement

Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent

Felt around for the light switch, felt around for her face

Been treated like a farm animal on a wild goose chase

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar

I see the turnin' of the page, curtain risin' on a new age

See the groom's still waiting at the altar

Tired of bein' pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery

Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery

Got the message this mornin', the one that was sent to me

'Bout the madness of becomin' what one was never meant to be

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar

I see the turnin' of the page, curtain risin' on a new age

See the groom's still waiting at the altar

Don't know what I can say about Claudette

Wouldn't come back to haunt me

Finally had to give her up 'bout the time she began to want me

But I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated

I'd of done anything for that woman

If she had only made me feel obligated

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar

I see the turnin' of the page, curtain risin' on a new age

See the groom's still waiting at the altar

Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?

I see people who're supposed to know better

Standin' round like furniture

There's a wall between you, what you want, and you got to leap it

Tonight you got the power to take it

Tomorrow you won't have the power to keep it

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar

I see the turnin' of the page, curtain risin' on a new age

See the groom's still waiting at the altar

Cities on fire, phones out of order

They're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border

What can I say about Claudette? Ain't seen her since January

She could be respectably married

Or runnin' a whorehouse in Buenos Aires

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar

I see the turnin' of the page, curtain risin' on a new age

See the groom's still waiting at the altar