Lamentations 2

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