The place lays phased like a warrior slayed   Engraved into the space with his sword still raised   Layers of charcoal sprayed through hallways   Praise relays off the walls echoing all ways      Dirt covered earth lays beneath my rib cage   Giving birth to overgrowth invading on to path ways   Burnt out trees cover streets where children once played   Sown seeds decay through sacred stepping stones in disarray   Where the alter used to be placed inter-changed for bloodstains   Sunrays illuminate the smoke filled haze   Trace of incense scents of sacrifice stayed      [Chorus:]   Aish tamid eternally   A fire burns continuously   Wondering where you been   Won't you come on home to me?      Flash back patches of grass growing wild in fact   Cracked walls burnt black like a kingdom sacked   Memories like artifacts attacked yet still intact   Melodies wrapped in glass and shatter with the impact      Air intermingling ringing with the singing   of songs once sung, hung, flung into the rafters   Catastrophe struck the sound stuck   Disaster plastered   The aftermath a blasted building once standing, like a starved man fasting   the skies expanding clouds passing, dust particles dancing,   in broken bars of light, streaming from a shaft, slashed into the ceiling,   Sshhhh, you could feel the ground breathing.      [Chorus]      Daughter of Zion is lying crying in the mist   Morning light slips in, shifting through the darkness   Like a morning wife reminisce having visions of her long gone prince   Memories drip rain drops tip towing emptiness   Intermixed with tears like fears left unfixed   Walls worn thin frozen fortress like dawn waiting for the sunrise of a day that got skipped   Like a life gone wrong wandering wilderness   Lovesick stripped abyss empty once luscious      [Chorus]      Paint the scene so you could see, the city's picking up speed   On a bench 14th street, taxi's streaming yellow streaks   Spears piercing through my ears, you could hear the traffic speak   Jack hammers drill smacking through the cracking concrete   Buildings filled with windowsills spilled tangled telephone wires   Signs sparking neon lights flash like wild fire   My insides rise I start to feel paralyzed   Let out a sigh-a melody blew by- like an ancient war cry   the way the sunlight hit the trees it really caught my eye,   glistening' listening' to the breeze dancing' through the leaves,   freeze, the city move's in slow motion like a dream      I'm left empty like the temple turned into a fox den   Bus fumes dripping spitting into city summer sun   Sifting through the ash dimly lit vision listening   To the hiss lifting off a nighttime ocean   Shim, shim, shimmering singing hair on my skin   Glim, glim. Glimmering, whispering where ya been      From amidst the darkness set sail with the softness   Breeze traveling across the seas arisen from with in Mt. Zion   Wind coming in picking up momentum   Cutting crisply through the thickness riding on a rhythm   A rollercoaster sizzling, twisting down the mountain   ripping rocket ship exploding like a fountain   overflowing spilling through the courtyards of Jerusalem   Uncovering debris lifting up the fallen arisen within   to reach the yiddin even in Manhattan   exposed menorah glowing in the shadows of destruction   trailblazing through affliction   brushing off the branches golden   standing strong flames   dancing like a lion roaring rising out of nothing