Dan Bern Jerusalem lyrics

When I tell you that I love you, don't test my love
Accept my love, don't test my love
'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much

Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight
Just stay awhile, hear for yourself awhile
And if you must put me in a box, make sure it's a big box

With lots of windows and a door to walk through
And a nice high chimney, so we can burn, burn, burn
Everything that we don't like and watch the ashes fly up to Heaven
Maybe all the way to India, I'd like that

All the ancient kings came to my door
They said, "Do you want to be an ancient king too?"
I said, "Oh yes, very much but I think my timing's wrong"
They said, "Time is relative or did you misread Einstein?"

I said, "Do you really mean it?"
They said, "What do you think we come here for
Our goddamn health or something?"

Everybody's waiting for the Messiah
The Jews are waiting, Christians are waiting, also the Muslims
It's like everybody's waiting
They've been waiting a long time

I know how I hate to wait
Like even for a bus or something
An important phone call, so I can just imagine
How darned impatient everybody must be getting


So I think it's time now
Time to reveal myself
I am the Messiah
I am the Messiah

Yes, I think you heard me right, I am the Messiah
I was gonna wait till next year
Build up the suspense a little
Make it a really big surprise but I could not resist

It's like when you got a really big secret
You're just bursting to tell someone
It was so like that with this
And now that I've told you

I feel this great weight lifted
Dr. Nusbaum was right
He's my therapist
He said get it out in the open

I spent ten whole days in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, sweet Jerusalem
And all I ate was olives, nothing but olives, mountains of olives
It was a good ten days, I like olives, I like you too

So when I tell you that I love you, don't test my love
Accept my love, don't test my love
'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much