John Cody, Tom Cochrane, Lisa Stone, Joey Landreth, Damhnait Doyle - The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar Lyrics

Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement|Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent|Felt around for the light switch, felt around for her face|Been treated like a farm animal on a wild goose chase||West of Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar|I see the turning of the page|Curtain rising on a new age|See the groom still waiting at the altar||Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery|Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery|Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me|About the madness of becoming what one was never meant to be||West of Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar|I see the turning of the ptage|Curtain rising on a new age|See the groom still waiting at the altar||Don't know what I can say about Claudette wouldn't come back to haunt me|Finally had to give her up about the time she began to want me|But I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated|I'd a-done anything for that woman if she'd only make me feel obligated||West of Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar|I see the turning of the page|Curtain rising on a new age|See the groom still waiting at the altar||Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?|I see people who are supposed to know better standing around like furniture|There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap through it|Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won't have the power to keep it||West of Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar|I see the turning of the page|Curtain rising on a new age|See the groom still waiting at the altar||Cities on fire, phones out of order|They're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border|What can I say about Claudette?|Ain't seen her since January|She could be respectfully married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires||West of Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar|I see the turning of the page|Curtain rising on a new age|See the groom still waiting at the altar