Lauryn Hill - Interlude 1 lyrics

I'll tell you, um every single
One of these songs, um, is
About me first me first, um
It was like, you know
There was a period of time where
I was just out, you know, just, just
Gone from the public, and, uh, i
Came to terms with the fact that i
Had created this, uh, public persona
This public illusion

And it became, it, uh
It held me hostage like I couldn't be
A real person because you're too afraid
Of, you know, what your
Your public will say

And at that point I had to do some
Dying and really accept the fact that
Look, "this is who I am, and I
Have to be who I am
And all of us have a right
To be who we are, and whenever we submit
Our will, because our will is a gift, it is
Given to us, so whenever we submit our will
To someone else's opinion, you know, I mean
A part of us dies"

You know, and so it's been
Um it's been it actually hasn't
Been a long time it feels like a long time
But it hasn't been a long
Time some miraculous things have
Happened in a short amount of time, and uh
I'm just very blessed to be able
To be here today and
Get to share with you some
Of the things I've learned

I know some of it sounds almost
Cryptic and I been really just
Just really waiting
For the patience and really
Just articulate where
I'm coming from as simply as possible
So I'm working on that

But um you know, I know
That you know that there's
Uh you know that I know
That God doesn't lie and
I know that he knows how to talk to the
Hearts of people better than anybody else
So I don't worry about that
Cause whatever he
Relates to whomever is listening
That's what supposed
To be understood at that time
So it's all good

But, um, this is a song called "Oh Jerusalem"