Aish Tamid Lyrics - Live At Stubb's: Austin, Tx 2/19/05 [live] - Matisyahu

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