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This song was written post 9/11. The title was inspired by a newspaper headline.

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Snowing In Jerusalem

There's a ghost out in the kitchen
Footsteps in the hall
Take a breath and you can almost taste
The smoke and alcohol
These closets are all filled with bones
Locked behind those doors
Some things are better left alone
Sometimes less is more

You can hide out in the cornfield
You can hide out in those woods
You can run from then to now, boy
But it won’t do no good
There’s things you carry with you
Things you throw away
Things that you keep buried
And a price you have to pay

He’s been sitting at that table
Since long before sunset
One light in the darkness
A half smoked cigarette
His face is just a shadow now
And nothing’s really clear
Outside the night is hard and bright
But a storm is in the air 

You can hide out in the cornfield
You can hide out in those woods
You can run from then to now, boy
But it won’t do no good
There’s things you carry with you
Things you throw away
Things that you keep buried
And a price you have to pay

It’s snowing in Jerusalem
It’s raining in Teheran
The lights are out in Baghdad
It’s quiet in Amman
In Riyadh they play solitaire
With a loaded deck of cards
And there’s a hole in New York City 
To remind us who we are

To remind us who we are 

You can hide out in the cornfield
You can hide out in those woods
You can run from then to now, boy
But it won’t do no good
There’s things you carry with you
Things you throw away
Things that you keep buried
And a price you have to pay

©2005 George Wirth

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