Aish Tamid - Live Album Version

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
 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.
 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
 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