The Mezuzah (Mezuzah Charm)

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Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. An appreciable percentage of her work is also dedicated to detailed accounts of both her own fictional female creations and such troubled but celebrated wo… more »

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I've traveled to cities you've never seen
Far from the town where I was a teen
To Budapest and west Odense
A million miles from New Providence
 
Thirty years later, my childhood's gone
The blue and white house half an acre lawn
So why do I dwell on the elm tree in back
The mezuzah in front and the books in the stack?
 
There was nothing to do and the neighbors were mean
I sat in my room and I tried not to scream
We fought and squabbled every third day
And I longed for the time when I'd go far away
 
I never look back and I try to forget
So why do I think of this house with regret?
Why do I dwell on the elm tree in back
The mezuzah in front and the books in the stack?
 
Now I walk to work under a mackerel sky
The tears start to slide, I can't fathom why
It's been nine years since you're in the grave
I keep on living and I even forgave
 
How you died in front of me that day
The clock keeps ticking as you slide away
And time stood still for a full year
While I pretend you were near
 
Mom, you died in front of me that day
Four paramedics, they couldn't say
That you would live to comfort me
Or one day know who I would be
 
I never look back and I try to forget
So why do I think of the house with regret?
Why do I dwell on the elm tree in back
The mezuzah in front and the books in the stack?
 
I never look back and I try to forget
So why do I think of the house with regret?
Why do I dwell on the elm tree in back
The mezuzah in front and the books in the stack?

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