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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