Aish Tamid (Live at Stubb's, Austin, TX - February 2005)-MatisYahu

[ti:Aish Tamid] [ar:MatisYahu] [al:Shake Off The Dust... Arise] [offset:0] [00:00.31]Aish Tamid -MatisYahu [00:23.69]The place lays phased like a warrior slayed [00:26.12]Engraved into the space with his sword still raised [00:29.52]Layers of charcoal sprayed through hallways [00:31.98]Praise relays off the walls echoing all ways [00:35.50] [00:38.49]Dirt covered earth lays beneath my rib cage [00:40.86]Giving birth to overgrowth invading on to path ways [00:44.05]Burnt out trees cover streets where children once played [00:46.67]Sown seeds decay through sacred stepping stones in disarray [00:49.85]Where the alter used to be placed inter-changed for bloodstains [00:52.28] [00:52.79]Sunrays illuminate the smoke filled haze [00:55.85]Trace of incense the scents of sacrifice stayed [00:58.73]Aish tamid eternally [01:01.50]Fire burns continuously [01:04.46]Wondering where you been [01:06.64]Won＇t you come to me? [01:10.56]Aish tamid eternally [01:13.18]Fire burns continuously [01:16.07]Wondering where you been [01:18.57]Won＇t you come to me? [01:21.85]Flash back patches of grass growing wild in fact [01:24.72]Cracked walls burnt black like a kingdom sacked [01:27.59]Memories like artifacts attacked yet still intact [01:30.20] [01:30.71]Melodies wrapped in glass and shattering with the impact [01:34.01]Air intermingling ringing with the singing [01:35.84]Of songs once sung, flung into the rafters [01:39.72]Catastrophe struck the sound stuck [01:41.54]Disaster plastered [01:42.46]The aftermath a blasted building once standing, like a starved man fasting [01:46.99]The skies expanding clouds passing, dust particles dancing, [01:50.55]In broken bars of light, streaming from a shaft, slashed into the ceiling, [01:55.67]Sshhhh, you could feel breathing.the ground [01:57.40]Aish tamid eternally [02:00.08]Fire burns continuously [02:02.97]Wondering where you been [02:05.11]Won＇t you come to me? [02:07.92] [02:09.08]Aish tamid eternally [02:11.67]Fire burns continuously [02:14.67]Wondering where you been [02:17.04]Won＇t you come to me? [02:20.36] [02:32.53]Daughter of Zion is lying crying in the mist [02:34.64]Morning light slips in, shifting through the darkness [02:37.46]Like a morning wife reminisce having visions of her long gone prince [02:43.76]Memories drip rain drops tip towing emptiness [02:46.73]Intermixed with tears like fears left unfixed [02:49.29] [02:49.96]Walls worn thin frozen fortress like dawn waiting the for sunrise of a day that got skipped [02:55.37]Like a life gone wrong wandering wilderness [02:58.44]Lovesick stripped abyss missing once luscious [03:00.10] [03:13.59]Aish tamid eternally [03:16.14]Fire burns continuously [03:19.15]Wondering where you been [03:21.40]Won＇t you come to me? [03:25.04]Aish tamid eternally [03:27.85]Fire burns continuously [03:30.86]Wondering where you been [03:33.04]Won＇t you come to me? [03:36.49]Ill Paint the scene so you could see, the city＇s picking up speed [03:39.37]I'm on a bench 14th street, taxi＇s streaming yellow streaks [03:42.25]Spears piercing through my ears, you could hear the traffic speak [03:45.24]Jack hammers drill smackling through the crackling concrete [03:47.43] [03:48.19]Windowsills spilled tangled telephone wires [03:51.05]Signs sparking neon lights flash like wild fire [03:53.99]My insides rise I start to feel paralyzed [03:57.12]Let out a sigh-a melody blew by- like an ancient war cry [04:00.24]The way the sunlight hit the leaves it really caught my eye, [04:03.04]Glistening＇ listening＇ to the breeze dancing＇ through the leaves on the trees, [04:08.20]Freeze, the city move＇s in slow motion like a dream [04:12.16] [05:21.85]I＇m left empty like the temple turned into a fox den [05:24.90]Bus fumes dripping spitting into city summer sun [05:27.64]Sifting through the ash dimly lit vision listening [05:29.57] [05:30.35]To the hiss lifting off a nighttime ocean [05:33.40]Shim, shim, shimmering singeing hair on my skin [05:36.47]Whispering where ya been [05:37.72] [05:39.91]From amidst the darkness set sail with the softness [05:41.41] [05:45.40]Breeze traveling across the seas arisen from within Mt. Zion [05:48.53] [05:51.52]Wind coming in picking up momentum [05:53.77] [05:57.08]Cutting crisply through the thickness riding on a rhythm [06:02.96]A rollercoaster sizzling, twisting down the mountain [06:05.58]Ripping rocket ship exploding like a fountain [06:07.62]Overflowing spilling through the courtyard of Jerusalem [06:10.80] [06:11.35]I see busting through the rubble, bubbling, drying up the puddles n [06:13.79]Uncovering debris lifting up the fallen arisen within [06:15.53]To reach the yiddin even in Manhattan [06:17.16]Exposed menorah glowing in the shadows of destruction [06:19.19]Trailblazing through affliction [06:20.83]Brushing off the branches golden [06:22.35]Standing strong flames [06:23.10] [06:23.63]Dancing like a lion roaring rising out of nothing