Matisyahu – Aish Tamid (Guitar)

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The place lays phased like a warrior slayed

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Engraved into the space with his sword still raised

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Layers of charcoal sprayed through hallways

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Praise relays off the walls echoing all ways

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Dirt covered earth lays beneath my rib cage

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Giving birth to overgrowth invading on to path ways

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Burnt out trees cover streets where children once played

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Sown seeds decay through sacred stepping stones in disarray

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Where the alter used to be placed inter-changed for bloodstains

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Sunrays illuminate the smoke filled haze

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Trace of incense scents of sacrifice stayed

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Aish tamid eternally

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A fire burns continuously

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Wondering where you been

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Won't you come on home to me?

Em
Aish tamid eternally

  D
A fire burns continuously

Em
Wondering where you been

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Won't you come on home to me?

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Flash back patches of grass growing wild in fact

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Cracked walls burnt black like a kingdom sacked

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Memories like artifacts attacked yet still intact

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Melodies wrapped in glass and shatter with the impact

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Air intermingling ringing with the singing

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of songs once sung, hung, flung into the rafters

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Catastrophe struck the sound stuck disaster plastered

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The aftermath a blasted building once standing,

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like a starved man fasting the skies expanding

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clouds passing, dust particles dancing,

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in broken bars of light, streaming from a shaft, slashed into the ceiling,

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Sshhhh, you could feel the ground breathing.

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Aish tamid eternally

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A fire burns continuously

Em
Wondering where you been

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Won't you come on home to me?

Em
Aish tamid eternally

  D
A fire burns continuously

Em
Wondering where you been

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Won't you come on home to me?

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Daughter of Zion is lying crying in the mist

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Morning light slips in, shifting through the darkness

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Like a morning wife reminisce

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having visions of her long gone prince

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Memories drip rain drops tip towing emptiness

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Intermixed with tears like fears left unfixed

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Walls worn thin frozen fortress like

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dawn waiting for the sunrise of a day that got skipped

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Like a life gone wrong wandering wilderness

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Lovesick stripped abyss empty once luscious

Em
Aish tamid eternally

  D
A fire burns continuously

Em
Wondering where you been

          D
Won't you come on home to me?

Em
Aish tamid eternally

  D
A fire burns continuously

Em
Wondering where you been

          D
Won't you come on home to me?

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Paint the scene so you could see, the city's picking up speed

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On a bench 14th street, taxi's streaming yellow streaks

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Spears piercing through my ears, you could hear the traffic speak

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Jack hammers drill smacking through the cracking concrete

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Buildings filled with windowsills spilled tangled telephone wires

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Signs sparking neon lights flash like wild fire

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My insides rise I start to feel paralyzed

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Let out a sigh-a melody blew by- like an ancient war cry

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the way the sunlight hit the trees it really caught my eye,

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glistening' listening' to the breeze dancing' through the leaves,

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freeze, the city move's in slow motion like a dream

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I'm left empty like the temple turned into a fox den

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Bus fumes dripping spitting into city summer sun

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Sifting through the ash dimly lit vision listening

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To the hiss lifting off a nighttime ocean

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Shim, shim, shimmering singing hair on my skin

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Glim, glim. Glimmering, whispering where ya been

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From amidst the darkness set sail with the softness

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Breeze traveling across the seas arisen from with in Mt. Zion

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Wind coming in picking up momentum

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Cutting crisply through the thickness riding on a rhythm

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A rollercoaster sizzling, twisting down the mountain

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ripping rocket ship exploding like a fountain

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overflowing spilling through the courtyards of Jerusalem

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Uncovering debris lifting up the fallen arisen within

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to reach the yiddin even in Manhattan

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exposed menorah glowing in the shadows of destruction

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trailblazing through affliction

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brushing off the branches golden

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standing strong flames

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dancing like a lion roaring rising out of nothing