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Destination Zion…

A bloody omen, that crucified star,
It began with fanatic faith and ended with restless war,
Those men were killing in the name of G-d, to free their holy places,
But they desecrated the legacy of forefathers,
Spilled blood of the innocent, even with smile on their faces,
Didn’t take heed of the others,
Jew, Muslim, everybody was for them an enemy,
There were no Ten Commandments, it was pure massacre and blasphemy,
Sword by sword, soldier by soldier, thousands seeking to free Jerusalem,
Once they managed to conquer it, yet it has fallen to Saladin’s hands,
no water and their chain mails exposed to sun, a scourge for them,
and yet the eternal city, in the midst of the desert, dauntlessly still stands.

Remember the painful, shame-making truth about the past of crusades,
So people won’t repeat such faults, don’t let your good reputation fade,
Follow only true religion, the faith in one G-d, the highest force,
‘cause you can’t know if someone isn’t just playing with your devotion,
when you’re not sure, just look to the sky and you’ll hear the answer,
the echo that’s sounding from the clouds and through the steep gorges,
a wonder of discovering, a divine motion,
a fear of the darkness, which is for now far and deeply under,
look to the east, on the Holy Land, where the stars shine over Zion,
admire its beauty with heart, mind and soul, defend that image like a lion.

On the wings of steel bird I flew to Israel,
where this mountain rises over the land,
I’ve been all around the country,
I’ve tasted all things it offered to me,
I’ve seen the Judean desert, where Beduins dwell,
I’ve heard the song of the Mediterranean Sea and made tracks in the sand,
The vast plains with colorful flowers, almost without boundaries,
It’s so wonderful you don’t want to leave,
Oh, how I wish for this a land to have peace within,
prosperity for all its people, no tombs of war to cry on,
no deadly rages that fill the coffins,
Oh, stars and mighty heavens, give some rest for sorely tried Zion.

Come, pilgrim, we will make the journey to the land of milk and honey,
Where myths and dreams are turned into reality,
to a place of infinite sunshine and new dawn,
The home for precious trees, millennial books of wisdom to rely on,
I am so happy, ‘cause finally I’ve got the money,
There is the chance to get to Israel, I feel it,
I see that rainbow showing the way, on the horizon drawn,
So hurry up and prepare for supersonic flight, destination Zion !