Текст песни: Holy Old City + перевод

I see a soldier with a gun slung on her shoulder

And a grandpa with a toddler on his knee

Here across the sea

A siren warning blares against the call to prayer

I hear a foreign and familiar harmony

Here among the fossils of apostles

And the remnants of descendants

Where centuries are circles and eternity’s a day

In this holy old city

In this holy old city

A cloud of smoke beyond the hilltop from a headline horror

Just beyond a border from me now

I do not know how to reconcile the beauty I am witnessing

With all the hatred on the screen I’m scrolling down

Do I kiss the ground beneath my feet

Or kick the hot tin can down the old dirt street?

Here in the desert where my mother wandered

I am wondering

In this holy old city

In this holy old city

Up on the roof, the mosque, the wall, the church

Seem all from the same heart

But down below the bloodlines boil in the sand

As gods and kings demand that scrolls and slabs of stone

Say if this land is their land

While folks from every stripe and creed

Live in hope and fear and need

Peace is the common language

And we’re all fluent, but speechless

Peace is the common language

And we’re all fluent, but speechless

Peace is the common language

And we’re all fluent, but speechless

I am fluent, but speechless

In this holy old city

In this holy old city

Holy old city

Holy old city

A group of travellers stop to photograph themselves

Already desperate to remember what they’ve yet to see

A girl whose face is covered by a veil is walking up ahead

She looks a lot like me

I will walk this ancient land

I will search for what is true

I will try to understand

Then I will come back home to you

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