Jerusalem
Lyrics 
When I tell you that I love you don't test my love
Accept my love, don't test my love
'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much

Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight
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Features Of This Song
folk roots
acoustic sonority
major key tonality
a distinctive male lead vocal
acoustic rhythm guitars

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Dan Bern
1997 
And now that I've told you, I feel this great weight lifted
Sweet Jerusalem and all I ate was olives, nothing but olives
Publisher: KABABA MUSIC
I said, "Oh yes, very much, but I think my timing's wrong"
I know how I hate to wait like even for a bus or something
So when I tell you that I love you don't test my love
With lots of windows and a door to walk through
And watch the ashes fly up to Heaven
And a nice high chimney so we can burn, burn, burn
I spent ten whole days in Jerusalem, mmm Jerusalem
An important phone call so I can just imagine
Accept my love, don't test my love
So I think it's time now, time to reveal myself
It's like everybody's waiting, they've been waiting a long time
Everything that we don't like
They said, "What do you think we come here for
Dr. Nusbaum was right, he's my therapist
It's like when you got a really big secret
Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight
Everybody's waiting for the Messiah, the Jews are waiting
Accept my love, don't test my love
Our goddamn health or something?"
They said, "Do you want to be an ancient king too?"
'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much
'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much
Yes, I think you heard me right, I am the Messiah
It was sort like that with this
I said, "Do you really mean it?"
I am the Messiah, I am the Messiah
Just stay a while, hear for yourself a while
Make it a really big surprise but I could not resist
Mountains of olives, it was a good ten days
You're just bursting to tell someone
How darned impatient everybody must be getting
And if you must put me in a box, make sure it's a big box
They said, "Time is relative or did you misread Einstein?"
Songwriter: Dan Bern
Maybe all the way to India, I'd like that
I was gonna wait till next year, build up the suspense a little
He said get it out in the open
All the ancient kings came to my door
When I tell you that I love you don't test my love
Christians are waiting, also the Muslims
I like olives, I like you too