JERUSALEM OF IRON - Lyrics

[Dexter]

In your darkness, Jerusalem,
we found a loving heart,
when we came to widen your borders
and to overwhelm the enemy.
We became satiated of all his mortars,
then suddenly dawn broke,
it just arose, not yet even white,
and it was aready red.

Jerusalem of iron,
of lead, of darkness,
haven't we set your wall free?

The strafed battalion broke forwards,
all of him in blood and smoke,
and a mother came, and another mother,
in the congregation of bereavement.
Biting his lips, not without toil,
the battalion continued fighting,
till, at the end, the flag flapped
above the house of bitterness.

Jerusalem of iron,
of lead, of darkness,
haven't we set your wall free?

The king's army dispersed,
the sniper his tower is silent,
now it s possible to go to the Dead Sea
by the way of Jericho.
Now it s possible to the Santuary Mountain
And to the Western Wall,
here, you are, in the twilight
almost all of you, gold.

Jerusalem of gold,
and lead, and dream
Will forever be Peace, between your walls

What are you thinking about this song ?

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Who does this song?

[Dexter]

Who does this song?

The original singer is dead .

[Gam Bashan veGam Gilad]

Chaimfan,

  This is an English translation of a Hebrew song called "Yerushalaiym shel Barzel" ("Jerusalem of Iron"). It was written as a vicious paraphrase on a former Hebrew song called "Yerushalaiym shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"). "Jerusalrm of Gold" was a genuine beautiful soft Hebrew song that expressed the love and the deep yearning of the Jewish people toward Yerushalaiym HaShlema (the Whole Jerusalem), and depicted Jerusalem in astonishing colors of gold and light...
It was composed (lyrics & music) by Naomi Shemer Z"L in 1967, a very rightist songwriter and composer. The song was a great success.

A short time after the song was composed and published, the Six Days War broke out,- the war in which Israel liberated eastern Jerusalem and reunite the whole Capital. It was a miraculous historical victory. This piece of music, those magnificent words - that accompanied the war all along - have become like a "national anthem" of that glorious war eventually.


NOW, the ABOVE lyrics were made afterwards by a sick demented self-hating Jew who apparently didn't feel very much comfortable with all this "public festival" over that song. He sensed the text was "incorrect in a certain aspect.." (yeah, HIS aspect : too "patriotic", too "heroic", too "proud", too "Jewish", too "rightist"..).

So he wanted to write a song that would stand against it. Since he was a songwriter and a singer himself, he fit new lyrics to the same music,- lyrics that stated sort of a "negative side" of the Six Days War, as intentially to ruin the air of euphoria that was prevailed during that time, or at least to maliciously undermine the miraculous outcome of the war in order to hurt national morale and so on..

And he called it "Jerusalem of Iron" - as a direct antithesis to the former "Jerusalem of Gold". (Piece of drek.. )

His name was Meir Ariel, and, as Dexter said earlier, he is not among the living.


  This is a true prototype of the average sick self-hating scum. Of course: He wouldn't want Israel to win the war, he couldn't stand his own brothers gathering together, celebrating a miraculous victory, the victory of his own people.. He couldn't stand the idea of a strong Israel that has the right to survive.. He felt ashamed of being Jewish.. he felt lack of justice on the most justified cause in the world.... (well, no need to continue; you already know all this materia here, do you not?..... )

  Meir Ariel recorded his filthy song and used to perform it in his concerts. Today you can rarely catch it on the radio, but "Jerusalem of Gold" still lives, mostly on Memorial Days and on other special events.


That's the story.
One of too many in the place where I come from, unfortunately.