-----------------/Penelope Cruz – The Walls Stopping Our Love Will Fall Down Flat/---
Jericho is the city of our adoration shared
a city of palm trees of jubilee,
a city rife with treasures of intimacy -
gold kisses, silver back rubs, brass meals over candlelight,
iron nuzzling with loving smiles– tightly shut
protected by intractable, towering walls of stone and mortar
but I want the land (badly), because it is the promise of love
bequeathed to me from you
no one can withhold it from me, not without resistance
not without seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns
of my steadfast devotion to you (blaring loudly)
not without armed men of my loyalty before them
and the rear guard of my jealousy behind
guarding the Ark of the Covenant of my zeal for our marriage
circling the city and its fugitive inhabitants
for six days, homage paid to the six days of creation
the six days it took for me to fall for you
but the seventh day will be inviolable
and I wont let dour pagan forces withstand my advances
any longer. On the seventh we encircle,
on the seventh we beset, and shout with all our might
to the virtues of the affinity of two people
who hold each other dear, who deserve happiness forever
we shout to the inherent right of a man to cherish his woman
and then suddenly
the fortified walls that stand between fulfillment of our dreams
will fall flat, crumbling rocks scattered for miles
everyone left inside will be accursed and troubled
my all consuming longing for this day will destroy them
and take back the treasure that belongs to you,
and to me
Jericho, is ours Penelope,
the Promised Land of true love
wont be denied us
(I love you baby! Next time you make a movie let me be your beau!!!!)
----------------Joshua 6:6-21---------------
And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD. And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout. So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
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