aish tamid chords by
Matisyahu 
Key: B minor•
Intro 1
Bm
Em
F#m
Bm
D
Em
Bm
Em
F#m
Bm
D
Em
D
Em
Bm
Em
F#m
Bm
D
Em
Bm
Em
F#m
Bm
D
Em
F#m
Bm
Em
F#m
Bm
D
Em
Bm
Em
F#m
Bm
D
Em
D
F#m
Verse 1
Bm
Em
Bm
The place lays phased like a warri or slayed
D
Engraved into the space with his
Em
Bm
sword still raised
Em
Layers of charcoal sprayed
F#m
through hallways
Bm
D
Praise relays off the walls echo
Em
A
ing all ways
Bm
Em
F#m
Verse 2
Bm
Em
Dirt covered earth lays
F#m
beneath my rib cage
Bm
D
Giving birth to overgrowth in
Em
F#m
vading on to path ways
Bm
Em
Burnt out trees cover street
Bm
s where children once played
A
Bm
Sown seeds decay through sacred
D
Em
D
stepping stones in disarray
F#m
Bm
Em
Where the alter used to be placed
F#m
A
inter-changed for for blood stains
Bm
D
Sunrays illumin ate
Em
the smoke filled haze
F#m
Bm
Em
F#m
Trace of incense scents of sacri fice
stayed
Bm
D
Em
D
F#m
Verse 3
A
Em
Chorus:
D
Em
Aish tamid eternally
D
Em
D
A fire burns continuously
Em
Wondering where you been
D
Won't you come on home to me?
Verse 4
Em
Bm
Flash back patches of grass
Em
F#m
growing wild in fact
A
Bm
D
Cracked walls burnt black like
Em
a kingdom sacked
Bm
Em
Memor ies like artifacts at
Bm
tacked yet still intact
A
Bm
Melod ies wrapped in glass
D
Em
D
Em
and shat ter with the im pact
A
Verse 5
Bm
Em
Air intermingling ringing
with the singing
Bm
of songs once sung, hung,
D
Em
flung into the rafter s
F#m
Bm
Em
Cata strophe struck the sound stuck
F#m
Disaster plastered
A
Bm
Em
The aftermath a blasted build ing once standing,
F#m
Bm
like a starved man fasting
Em
Bm
the skies ex panding clouds passing,
D
dust particles dancing,
Em
Bm
Em
in broken bars of light, streaming from a shaft,
Bm
A
slashed into the ceiling,
Bm
Sshhhh, you could feel
the ground breathing.
Em
Interlude 1
D
Em
D
Em
D
Verse 6
Em
D
Chorus
Bm
Daughter of Zion is lying
A
crying in the mist
Bm
Morning light slips in,
A
shifting through the darkness
Bm
A
Like a morning wife reminis ce having vis
Bm
Em
Bm
A
ions of her long gone prince
Bm
Em
Memories drip rain drops tip
A
F#m
towing empti ness
Bm
Inter mixed with tears
D
like fears left unfixed
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Walls worn thin frozen fortress like dawn waiting
D
A
Em
for the sun rise of a day that got skipped
F#m
Bm
Like a life gone wrong wan
Em
A
Bm
dering wil der ness
A
Bm
D
Lovesick stripped abyss empty once
Em
Bm
Asus4
D
G
lus cious
A
Bm
D
G
Chorus
Interlude 2
G
D
Bm
A
Bm
G
A
Bm
G
D
F#m
Bm
Paint the scene so you could see,
Verse 7
Bm
the city's picking up speed
On a bench 14th street,
Em
taxi's streaming yellow streaks
F#m
Bm
Spears piercing through my ears,
you could hear the traffic speak
Em
Bm
Jack hammers drill smack ing
through the cracking concrete
Buildings filled with windowsills
spilled tangled telephone wires
Signs sparking neon lights
Em
flash like wild fire
Bm
My in sides rise I start to feel
paralyzed
Let out a sigh-a melody melody blew by-
like an ancient war cry
the way the sunlight hit the trees it really caught my eye,
glistening' listening' to the breeze
dancing' through the leaves,
Bm
freeze, the city move's in slow motion like
Interlude 3
a dream
A
Bm
A
Bm
G
Bm
A
Bm
A
Verse 8
Bm
I'm left empty like the temple
A
turned in to a fox den
Bm
Bus fumes dripping spitting
A
into city summer sun
Bm
Sifting through the ash
A
dimly lit vis ion listening
Bm
A
To the hiss lifting off a night time
Bm
ocean
Shim, shim, shimmering singing
A
hair on my skin
Glim, glim. Glimmering,
Bm
A
whisper ing where ya been
Verse 9
Bm
A
From amidst the darkness set sail
Bm
A
with the soft ness
Bm
Breeze traveling across the seas arisen
A
D
A
Bm
A
from with in Mt. Zion
Bm
A
Wind coming in picking up momentum
Bm
Cutting crisply through the
A
thickness riding on a rhythm
Bm
A rollercoaster sizzling,
A
twisting down the mountain
Bm
ripping rocket ship exploding
like a fountain
A
Bm
overflowing spilling through the courtyards of
A
Bm
A
Bm
Jerusalem
A
Bm
A
Uncovering debris lifting up
Bm
the fallen arisen within
A
to reach the yiddin even in Manhattan
Bm
A
exposed menorah glowing in the shadows
Bm
of destruction
trailblazing through affliction
A
brushing off the branches golden
Bm
standing strong flames
A
Bm
dancing like a lion roaring rising out of nothing
Outro 1
A
Bm
A
Bm
A
Bm
A
Bm
A
F#m
A
Bm
D
Bm
G
Bm
G
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ChordsBm Em F#m D A...
Bm
Em
F#m
D
A
Asus4
G
Capo: 2
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