The Shondes - I Watched the Temple Fall lyrics

[Verse 1] This year a fast of witness I long and crave but with this Long to know what longing's for (I know this is a time thick with dying) Remembering temples falling I watched the wall ascending (The names and places are erased, replaced) I watched cities consume cities (k**ing history) (And yet today my people are mourning) With each village they're erasing I'll witness them replacing it With new walls in new tongues (An endless, timeless span of tragedy) We can't see the chance that's there To build temples everywhere Not in space but in time (I know this is a time thick with dying) [Hook] We live like we're always afflicted (I watched the temple fall) But I'm not, I'm sick (I watched the temple fall) From the blood all over our hands (The borders of my heart) How the land soaks it in (Release and come apart) So the desert can finally bloom with this colonial hate No heart, no heart could really beat love for this state (The state is not my temple) [Verse 2] Fall to the ground with thirst What should we build first? What is our builders' stone? (I know this is a time thick with dying) Pour out your heart's cement (The names and places are erased, replaced) In time for this lament To see this new destruction (k**ing history) Today my people are grieving (An endless, timeless span of tragedy) But never quite believing What walls can trap inside (And yet today my people are mourning) You watched Schindler's List this morning To create generic mourning Where the state means salvation (I know this is a time thick with dying) [Hook] The state cannot replace it The state cannot replace it