Thank You for Hearing Me: “If You Had a Vineyard”

	If U had a vineyard
	On a fruitful hill,
	And U fenced it and cleared it
	Of all stones until
	U planted it
	With the choicest of vine,
	And U even built a tower,
	And a press to make wine,
	And U looked that it would bring forth sweet grapes,
	And it gave only wild grapes,
	What would you say?

	Jerusalem and Judah,
	U be the judges, I pray,
	Between me and my vineyard.
	This is what God says.

	What more could I have done in it
	That I did not do in it?
	Why when I ask it for sweetness,
	It brings only bitterness?

	For the vineyard of The Lord of Hosts
	Is the house of Israel,
	And the men of Judah,
	His pleasant plant.

	And he looks for justice but beholds oppression,
	And he hopes for equality, but hears a cry.
	Jerusalem and Judah,
	This is God's reply.

	Sadness will come to those who build house to house
	And lay field to field, 'til there's room
	For none but U to dwell in the land,
	Oh, in the land.
	And sadness will come to those who call evil good
	And good evil,
	Who present darkness as light and light as darkness,
	Who present as sweetness only the things
	Which are
	Bitterness.

	For the vineyard of The Lord of Hosts
	Is the house of Israel,
	And the men of Judah, his pleasant plant.

	Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears,
	That I might weep for my people.

	For every boot stamped with fierceness,
	For every cloak rolled in blood,
	Jerusalem and Judah,
	I'd cry if I could.

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“If You Had a Vineyard”

Composed by Sinéad O'Connor

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