MAYBE I'M ONLY DREAMIN'


and maybe i'm just a fool.

On a morning when, so far at least, the cease-fire seems to be holding, it seemed fitting and proper and somehow sort of poetic that my iPod should shuffle up a prayer for peace in the form of my favorite Steve Earle song. A couple of listens and a little singing and strumming and blogging later, it seems good and right and somehow sort of cathartic to offer it up to you, with hearts and souls and fingers crossed...


JERUSALEM
Steve Earle

I woke up this mornin' and none of the news was good
And death machines were rumblin' 'cross the ground where Jesus stood
And the man on my TV told me that it had always been that way
And there was nothin' anyone could do or say

And I almost listened to him
Yeah, I almost lost my mind
Then I regained my senses again
And looked into my heart to find

That I believe that one fine day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem

Well maybe I'm only dreamin', and maybe I'm just a fool
But I don't remember learnin' how to hate in Sunday school
But somewhere along the way I strayed, and I never looked back again
But I still find some comfort now and then

Then the storm comes rumblin' in
And I can't lay me down
And the drums are drummin' again
And I can't stand the sound

But I believe there'll come a day when the lion and the lamb
Will lie down in peace together in Jerusalem

And there'll be no barricades then
There'll be no wire or walls
And we can wash all this blood from our hands
And all this hatred from our souls

And I believe that on that day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem.

Posted: Mon - August 14, 2006 at 11:51 AM          

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