Lyrics · Lamentations
Pour Out Thine Heart Like Water
Lamentations 2:11-22
[Oracle]
My eyes have spent themselves and still the breach is wide,
No likeness can measure a sorrow like the sea.
False visions painted doors where no doors ever stood,
[People]
Pour out thine heart like water,
At every watch let the stone hear prayer.
[Oracle]
They hid the wound until captivity arrived.
Do not save a dignified sorrow for morning;
Lift empty hands in the night and remain there.
The passersby hissed at the city once called perfect,
[People]
Pour out thine heart like water,
At every watch let the stone hear prayer.
Enemies opened their mouths and named ruin their day.
[Bridge]
Yet warning fulfilled is not comfort withheld,
The heart may still cry where every answer delays.
Water on stone, tears through the watches,
[Coda]
Pour out thine heart when no language remains.
Pour out thine heart like water,
At every watch let the stone hear prayer.

