Matisyahu - Aish Tamid lyrics

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 fire burns continuously
Wondering where you been
Won't you come on home to me?



Aish tamid eternally
A fire burns continuously
Wondering where you been
Won't you won't you come 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, flung
Hung into the rafters
Catastrophe struck the sound
Stuck disaster plastered
The aftermath a blasted
Building still standing
Like a starved man fasting
The sky's expanding clouds passing
Dust particles dancing in broken bars
Of light, Streaming from a shaft
Slashed into the ceiling
Shh, you could feel the ground breathing

Aish tamid eternally fire burns continuously
Wondering where you been
Won't you come on home to me?

Aish tamid eternally
A fire burns continuously
Wondering where you been
Won't you won't you come to me?

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 a day that got skipped
Like a life gone wrong wandering wilderness
Lovesick stripped abyss empty once luscious

Aish tamid eternally fire burns continuously
Wondering where you been
Won't you come on home to me?

Aish tamid eternally
A fire burns continuously
Wondering where you been
Won't you won't you come to me?

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 seismic concrete
Windowsills spilled and 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
Sunlight hit the leaves it
Really caught my eye
Glistening' listening' to the breeze
Dancing' through the trees
Freeze, the city goes in slow
Motion like a dream

I'm left empty like a 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
Whispering where ya been, glim, glim
Glimmering 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 darkness
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