Empty streets where laughter used to ring
Now only echoes of a broken string
The temple's dust a crown upon the ground
Desolation's shadow all around
My eyes pour rivers tears that never cease
A heavy heart that knows no release
The children cry their mothers turn away
No comfort comes with the break of day
Our sins have built this pyre of burning shame
We called on gods who answered not our name
The city weeps a widow in despair
A crown of thorns is all that we now wear
Remember Lord the pain we can't outrun
Restore us now though all seems undone
Have mercy, Lord hear our desperate plea
From ashes rise set your people free
Lamentations
The walls are dust the gates are gone
Streets cry loud but the crowd moved on
Smoke in the air where the temple stood
Hunger where there once was good
I asked the sky it stayed stone grey
The sun don't shine it just fades away
Echoes of psalms in the empty halls
Broken voices bounce off shattered walls
Famine fed on the young and weak
Hope is a ghost and it doesn't speak
The rivers dried up like they knew the pain
Even heaven weeps in the acid rain
Every step’s a weight every breath a fight
Shadow of glory swallowed by the night
The stars are quiet like they're ashamed
Even the stones remember the names
Who can rebuild what's burned to bone
Who sings a song when they're all alone
Ashes in the wind they don't come back
Tears in the dust trace the city's cracks
Oh Zion Zion can you hear my voice
Grief ain't a choice grief ain't a choice
Lamentations
Empty streets where echoes crawl
Broken walls like giants fall
Shadows stretch where life once played
Dreams decay in the city's grave
Dust dances in the choking air
Windows shattered no one's there
A hollow choir of the lost
Counting the days this ruin cost
My eyes flow with streams of tears
The weight of silence loud with fears
Skin blackened by the sun's cruel glare
Hearts hardened but no one's spared
The heavens shut their doors on cries
As the ground drinks sorrow's skies
What did we trade for fleeting gold
The lies we loved the truths we sold
The guilt it clings like heavy chains
Echoes of loss in the falling rain
Abandoned left in ashes cold
Forsaken stories never told
But I remember through the flame
God's mercy whispers still my name
Lamentations
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