Jerusalem, New York, Berlin

Written by Ezra Koenig / Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid & Ezra Koenig / Additional Production by BloodPop® & Buddy Ross / Engineered by Ariel Rechtshaid, Chris Kasych, John DeBold, Hiroya Takayama & Takemasa Kosaka / Mixed by Ariel Rechtshaid

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  • Jerusalem, New York, Berlin
  • Jerusalem, New York, Berlin (Live in Milan)
  • Jerusalem (w/ Angelique)
  • Lyrics

    I know I loved you then

    I think I love you still

    But this prophecy of ours

    Has come back dressed to kill

    Three stones on a mountain

    Three small holes in a field

    You’ve given me the big dream

    But you can’t make it real

    *Chorus:*

    O, wicked world

    Just think what could have been

    Jerusalem, New York, Berlin

    All I do is lose but baby

    All I want’s to win

    Jerusalem, New York, Berlin

    *Verse 2*

    A hundred years or more

    It feels like such a dream

    An endless conversation

    Since 1917

    Now the battery is too hot

    It’s burning up in its tray

    Young marriages are melting

    And dying where they lay

    *Chorus*

    Our tongues will fall so still

    Our teeth will all decay

    A minute feels much longer

    With nothing left to say

    So let them win the battle

    But don't let them restart

    That genocidal feeling

    That beats in every heart

    *Chorus*