I stand here by the western wall
Babylook at that wallstandin' silent an' tall.
An' I shove my prayers in the cracks.
Got nothin' to loseno-one to answer back.
All these years I've brought up for review
Wasn't taught this but I learned somethin' new.
Had to answer a distant call
At the western wall.

An' I've got a heart full of fear
An' I offer it up on this altar of tears.
Red dust settles deep in my skin.
Don't know where it starts or where I begin.
It's a crumblin' pile of broken stones;
It ain't much but it might be home.
If I ever loved a place at all
It's the western wall.

Instrumental break.

I don't know if God was ever a man
But if she wasI think I understand.
Why he found a place to break his fall
Near the western wall.