Bred in the ghetto with my

Face in the cement

Heard the last mote of a boxer

Seen the massacre of the innocent

Hurled around for the light switch

Hurled around for his face

Been treated like a farm animal

On a wild goose chase



West side of Jordan

East of the rock of Gibraltar

I see you turn another page

Come rising on a new age

The groom still waiting at the altar



Try to be pure at heart

They arrest you for robbery

Mistake your shyness for aloofness

Your silence for snobbery

Got the message this morning

The one that was sent to me

About the madness all becoming

What one was never meant to be



West side of Jordan

East of the rock of Gibraltar

I see you turn another page

Come rising on a new age

The groom still waiting at the altar



Don't know what I could say about all that

That wouldn't come back to haunt me

Finally had to give him up

About the time he began to want me

But God have mercy

On them who were slandered and humiliated

I'd have done anything for that man

If he didn't make me feel obligated



West side of Jordan

East of the rock of Gibraltar

I see you turn another page

Come rising on a new age

The groom still waiting at the altar



Put your hand on my head baby

Do I have a temperature?

I see people supposed to know better

Standing round like furniture

There's a wall between you

What you want, you've got to leap it

Tonight you got the power to take it

Tomorrow you won't have the power to keep it



West side of Jordan

East of the rock of Gibraltar

I see you turn another page

Come rising on a new age

The groom still waiting at the altar



City's on fire

Phone's out of order

They're killing nuns and soldiers

Fighting on the border

What can I say about all that?

Well, I ain't seen him since January

He could be respectably married

Or running a whole house in Buenos Aries



West side of Jordan

East of the rock of Gibraltar

I see you turn another page

Come rising on a new age

The groom still waiting at the altar