THE GROOM'S STILL WAITING AT THE ALTAR
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Words and Music by Bob Dylan
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1981 Special Rider Music
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Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement,
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Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent
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Felt around for the light switch, became nauseated.
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She was walking down the hallway while the walls deteriorated.
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East of the Jordan, hard as the Rock of Gibraltar,
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I see the burning of the page,
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Curtain risin' on a new age,
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See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,
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Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery,
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Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me
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About the madness of becomin' what one was never meant to be.
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West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar,
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I see the burning of the stage,
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Curtain risin' on a new age,
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See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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Don't know what I can say about Claudette that wouldn't come back to haunt me,
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Finally had to give her up 'bout the time she began to want me.
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But I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated.
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I'd a-done anything for that woman if she didn't make me feel so obligated.
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West of the Jordan, west of the Rock of Gibraltar,
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I see the burning of the cage,
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Curtain risin' on a new stage,
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See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?
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I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
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There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it,
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Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won't have the power to keep it.
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West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar,
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I see the burning of the stage,
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Curtain risin' on a new age,
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See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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Cities on fire, phones out of order,
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They're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border.
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What can I say about Claudette? Ain't seen her since January,
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She could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires.
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West of the Jordan, west of the Rock of Gibraltar,
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I see the burning of the stage,
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Curtain risin' on a new age,
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See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
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