The Jew In You 2011 Version
[Verse]

All you drunken shiksa are sweethearts with your bloodshot eyes of  blue
All you border-crossing feyglekh who've been quarantined for flu
All you lost exilic aliens, you migrant mongrel stew
You needn't feel farloyrn, you don't have to be blue
Just climb aboard this ark of ours and join the soggy crew
It's a diasporic politics, it's a reconstructed you
With permeable borders in between the old and new
It's a way to hide away what they will take away from you
Forget your god and country, and your revolution too
It's possible for you to leave the many, for the few
It don't matter if your daddy was from Poland or Peru
Your blood might come from Turkey, or Detroit or Timbuktu
Your language could be Farsi, Sanskrit, German or Zulu
Come on we've got some wandering to do

[Refrain]

So bring out your Jew
Bring out your Jew
You may have a Jew inside of you
A Jew, a Jew
A secret little Jew
A secret Jew is buried inside you
[Verse]

My definition here could use some explanation, true
You have to ask yourself just what I mean when I say Jew
Well, the Jewishness concerning us should not be misconstrued
Blood and land are things with which it doesn't have to do
And religion is a matter most irrelevant here true too
So let's try to look at this anew
To find a category underneath the ones we knew
A mercurial identity for people who are strewn
In countries far and wide who haven't got a home and view
Who drag around like shackles all the roots from which they grew
Well others have endured this goles too
And here I offer it all up to you
A Kosher Yiddish food for thought that Goym now can chew
It's what they did with Jesus when they wrote the bible new
Rebranded monotheism for wider public view
So learn to take the rootless cosmopolitan worldview
In hidden interstices we all normally eschew
To shlep your goles proudly you must learn how to make do
And learn learn learn is what the wise men tell us to

[Refrain]

So learn to be a Jew
Learn to be a Jew
Learn to be a Jew among the Jews
Among the Jews
[Verse]

Well, so what about those of us who are actually Jews?
With problems all my deconstructive theories can't subdue
Well you know what I'm talking about I don't have to tell you
Just ask a gentle German for a history review
They, they shall tell you how they marked us with numerical tattoos
They turned us in ashes, hair and lamps and soap and glue
And no it wasn't something that I personally knew
But I mean, they taught me all about it in my temple Sunday school
And I guess it kinda left me with some hang-ups and taboos
But how can we wear the mantle of the martyred ghetto Jews?
We turned our backs on so many things that brought our people through
Did it really work to try and make a new Hebrew?
With the enemies we slew, the hatred grew and grew

But the thing you hate in others, is the thing you hate in you
And where it all went wrong nobody knew
Now exile will return like Deja Vu
And we will have to learn it all anew
Not only as a victim, but maybe a perpetrator too?
To learn to take the rootless cosmopolitan worldview?

[Refrain]

To learn to be a Jew
Learn to be a Jew
Learn to be a Jew among the Jews
A Jew, a Jew
The problem isn't new
A homeless Jew is buried inside you
[Verse]

Now the hour's getting late, soon we'll have to pay our dues
We're faced with situations where we all will have to choose
And the world is turning colder, and the walls are high and true
And the cities they're turning the skies a color black and blue
So when they ask you for your papers, and you don't know what to do
Remember what this moment you are carrying with you
Because the day will come when all your papers are refused
And then you'll find yourself in exile too

You're living in a land and time that aren't made for you
You're refugees from wars between religious points of view
And you slip around like shackles all the roots from which you grew
So I talk about the inner other hiding inside you
And well the name I give this other, is a Jew
But by Jew I mean you could be an Arab, or a German, or a Druze
So if you would have a better name that you would like to use
Well I'd love to read the testament of you

The imaginary diasphoric messianic youth
'Cause there's only one Messiah, and he's buried inside you
So bring him out and show the world what we all need to do
These aren't just the dreams of us, these are the dreams of you
But forgive the self-indulgence that I spew
I mean, I mean it as a question, not an answer to your blues
The question is the answer, and the question, it is you
Anyway, I just wrote this goddamn thing where every sentence, it just rhymes with Jew

So

[Refrain]

Bring out your Jew
Bring out your Jew
You may have a Jew inside of you