Listen to New Zion song with lyrics from The Mountain Goats

New Zion

The Mountain Goats17 Feb 2008

New Zion Lyrics

New Zion - The Mountain Goats

Written by:John Darnielle

There were signs up in the sky

 

When we gathered by the garden wall

 

Everybody on his best behavior

 

Listening for the altar call

 

High priest of salem in his robes

 

Ranting of the coming of the day

 

Ravens at the gates

 

Frightening all the visitors away

 

I lay down by the water

 

Dreamed a dream of where I come from

 

Old things made new

 

Waiting for you

 

There were wooden wind chimes rustling

 

In the trees above the anthills on the dunes

 

On the high winds we could hear them

 

Old familiar tunes

 

The little bit of faith we had once

 

Like the memory of a movie

 

They got burned up in the great fire

 

Reassembling itself slowly but surely

 

I lay down by the water

 

Dreamed a dream of where I come from

 

Old things made new

 

 

Waiting for you