Shadow of Sin

At the Erez crossing
The sign says Military Zone
After 80 years of refugees
Finding others in their homes
As I travel up to Nazareth
To where Highway 60 ends
There's a darkness on the land
Like the shadow of sin
A warm wind blows in
From the azure sea
It meets the desert air
By silver olive trees
Here the guilty lay
The blame on the innocent
In the land of the prophets
They're living in the shadow of sin
I've heard the wailing in the mosques
When the rockets stop
I've felt the ghost
Of Al-Nakba
What happened to us
We'll do worse to them
What a bitter inheritance
Here the upper hand holds
The water supply
They've been fighting over wells here
Since before Moses died
But the greedy and corrupt
Love power more than anything
So they live in violence
In the shadow of sin
Land of survivors
Where the Jordan meets the sand
Land of the Dome
Rising on the western bank
Land where Jesus
Was washed by the Baptist's hand
Land of Mohamed
And Abraham
Here fathers and daughters
Avenge mothers and sons
Until the thing they despise
They become
And as I walk the streets
Of Jerusalem
I wonder when they'll step out
Of the shadow of sin