Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar-Bob Dylan

[00:01.08]The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar [00:03.78] [00:11.40]Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement, [00:14.95]Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent [00:19.60]Felt around for the light switch, became nauseated. [00:24.03]She was walking down the hallway while the walls deteriorated. [00:28.04] [00:29.13]East of the jordan, hard as the rock of gibraltar, [00:37.11]I see the burning of the page, curtain risin' on a new age, [00:42.98]See the groom still waitin' at the altar. [00:44.78] [00:56.03]Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery, [01:00.10]Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery, [01:04.55]Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me [01:09.62]About the madness of becomin' what one was never meant to be. [01:13.72] [01:15.60]West of the jordan, east of the rock of gibraltar, [01:22.26]I see the burning of the stage, [01:25.07]Curtain risin' on a new age, [01:28.83]See the groom still waitin' at the altar. [01:30.51] [01:43.76]Don't know what i can say about claudette that wouldn't come back to haunt me, [01:45.49]Finally had to give her up 'bout the time she began to want me. [01:48.91]But i know god has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated. [01:57.32]I'd a-done anything for that woman if she didn't make me feel so obligated. [01:58.43] [01:58.94]West of the jordan, west of the rock of gibraltar, [02:06.89]I see the burning of the cage, [02:08.71]Curtain risin' on a new stage, [02:11.18]See the groom still waitin' at the altar. [02:14.34] [02:26.79]Put your hand on my head, baby, do i have a temperature? [02:29.11]I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture. [02:33.71]There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it, [02:37.94]Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won't have the power to [02:41.48]Keep it. [02:42.35] [02:42.89]West of the jordan, east of the rock of gibraltar, [02:49.37]I see the burning of the stage, curtain risin' on a new age, [02:59.11]See the groom still waitin' at the altar. [03:01.38] [03:14.70]Cities on fire, phones out of order, [03:15.04]They're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border. [03:17.53]What can i say about claudette? [03:20.07]Ain't seen her since january, [03:22.42]She could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in buenos aires. [03:26.06] [03:27.30]West of the jordan, east of the rock of gibraltar, [03:35.27]I see the burning of the stage, [03:37.67]Curtain risin' on a new age, [03:40.13]See the groom still waitin' at the altar.