The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar Lyrics - Rod Stewart

Prayed in the ghetto 

With my face in the cement 

Heard the last moan of a boxer 

Seen the massacre of the innocent 

Felt around for the light switch 

Turned around for her face 

And treated like a farm animal 

I know a wild goose chase 

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar 

I see the turning of the page 

Curtain rising on a new age 

See the groom's still waiting at the altar 

Try to be pure at heart 

They arrest you for robbery 

Mistake your shyness for aloofness 

Your shyness for snobbery 

Got the message this morning 

The one that was sent to me 

About the madness of becoming 

What one was never meant to be 

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar 

I see the turning of the page 

Curtain rising on a new age 

See the groom's still waiting at the altar 

Don't know what I can say about Claudette 

Wouldn't come back to haunt me 

Finally had to give her up 

About the time she began to want me 

But I know God has mercy 

On them who are slandered and humiliated 

I'd have done anything for that woman 

If she'd only make me feel obligated 

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar 

I see the turning of the page 

Curtain rising on a new age 

See the groom's still waiting at the altar 

Put your hand on my head, baby 

Do I have a temperature? 

I see people who are supposed to know better 

Standing' round like furniture 

There's a wall between you 

What you want and you've got to leap it 

Tonight you've got the power to take it 

Tomorrow you won't have the power to keep it 

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar 

I see the turning of the page 

Curtain rising on a new age 

See the groom's still waiting at the altar 

City's on fire 

Phone's out of order 

They're killing nuns and soldiers 

There's fighting on the border 

What can I say about Claudette? 

Ain't seen her since January 

She could be respectably married 

Or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires 

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar 

I see the turning of the page 

Curtain rising on a new age 

See the groom's still waiting at the altar 

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