[ ROB Series] CITY OF SORROW - Fernando Ortega (2002)

Flow "rivers of Babylon" is not stopped until the 21st century, writing about it has been opened by the cover of the popular song "Rivers of Babylon" by a Polish Rock group called  2Tm2,3. Who wears the title song "By the Rivers Of Babylon" is placed in the album "Propaganda Dei".

Prior to presenting the Christian rock group Rivers Of Babylon (2004) which covered from the group Boney M (1978), a singer and writer of songs and Contemporary American Christian music, Fernando Ortega in the album "Storm" (2002) dedicated a song with a theme similar to Rivers Of Babylon which has been popular, from Psalm 137 in the Bible Christians and Jews.


The singer and songwriter was born in Mexico recorded a song entitled "City Of Sorrow" with the opening words "By the waters of Babylon", together with other translations of "By the Rivers Of Babylon".

Ortega in a more focused idea for a song the destruction of a city. City of Jerusalem, which battered around 5-6 century BC, by the Babylonians with a royal king Nebuchadnezzar. Inhabitants of Judah taken to Babylon and miserable life in the country who collect many rivers.

Jerusalem, the city of Zion is remembered by the "children" of exile, as the popular song of [Boney M cs].  Cities throne  left miserable for children . The holy city of  blackened stone and darker by the bloodshed of the population.  town is decorated by rows of martyrs who died, became a ghost town and lived there in a dream.

LYRICS SONG ---

CITY OF SORROW - Fernando Ortega ---

By the waters of Babylon
Still and deep
The sun rose at midnight
I was not asleep
I saw a man with a javelin
A carriage of steel
His eyes burned like sapphires
Wheels wheels turning in

aluminum angels I saw
arrayed like a choir
Hailstones falling
Rivers of fire
By the waters of Babylon
I sank down in shame
Covered in ashes
I called out your name

Oh Jerusalem
City of thrones
The blood of your people
Still darkens the stones
City of Sorrows
Spread on a hill
Bride of the prophets
They dream of you still

Kings in their armor
Swords in the sky
Storefronts of martyrs
Lined up to die
While in the streets of Jerusalem
Children in pain
Covered in ashes
I called out your name

Oh Jerusalem
City of thrones
The blood of your people
Still darkens the stones
City of Sorrows
Spread on a hill
Bride of the prophets
They dream of you still

Oh Jerusalem
City of thrones
The blood of your people
Still darkens the stones
City of Sorrows
Spread on a hill
Bride of the prophets
They dream of you still

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