Look at yourself
Do you like what you see
Are you proud of yourself
Of all these things you try to be
Well, shame on you
You’re trying to be everything else
Than what you really are
You’ve gone too far
Look at yourself
Oh, how you pity yourself
You feel guilty for other people’s sins
Is that really you in the mirror
Or just a travesty of what you’ve once been
You grovel on your feet
And lick everyone’s shoes
On your chest you beat
And you do all the things
That no one else would do
You’ve been fed all the lines
And now you think they’re all true
Don’t look now
You don’t know how
The whole world is laughing at you
You’ve lost your heart
You’ve sold your soul
You claim you’re the light of the world
But you’re just a black hole
Well, take a hard look now
And see how far away you’ve gone
You wave every flag
And march to every tune but your own
You walk away from the sun
And hide your face from the light
But you can’t really hide
‘Cause deep down inside
You know that I’m right
You’ve abandoned your past
You’ve broken all the rules
You’ve got nothing but contempt
For all the things you learned in school
You ran away from it all
Because you want to be free
But you ain’t free at all
‘Cause you’re a slave to your vanity
Well, you better wise up
Take off those John Lennon frames
Before your distorted vision
Will send us all up in flames
Look at yourself
©2023 The Hesh Inc.
This song is directed at those Jews who go so far in their desire to repair the world that they deny their own identity. Written in 1987, during the second half of my army service in Israel. I borrowed the lyrics' prosody, aptly enough, from Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise." Never recorded or performed.