"The Holy City" adalah sebuah lagu memikat yang ditulis oleh Lyricist tak dikenal dan dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi Welsh, Charlotte Church. Lirik yang menggugah ini menceritakan perjalanan spiritual ke Yerusalem, melukiskan pemandangan yang hidup dan menggambarkan kekudusan kota. Lagu ini dimulai dengan mimpi mengunjungi Yerusalem kuno, di mana penyanyi mendengar nyanyian malaikat dan merasakan kehadiran ilahi. Sepanjang perjalanan, suasana berubah, memperlihatkan penderitaan dan penebusan, sebelum akhirnya mencapai visi Kota Suci yang baru dan abadi. "The Holy City" adalah sebuah karya seni musik yang menggugah jiwa, memicu renungan tentang iman, harapan, dan keindahan spiritual.
The Holy City Lyrics
Charlotte Church
Last night I lay asleeping
There came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem
Beside the temple there
I heard the children singing
And ever as they sang,
Me taught the voice of angels
From heaven in answer rang
Me thought the voice of Angels
From Heaven in answer rang
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Hark! How the Angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest.
Hosanna to your King!"
And then me thought my dream was changed
The streets no longer rang
Hushed were the glad Hosannas
The little children sang
The sun grew dark with mystery,
The morn was cold and chill
As the shadow of across arose
Upon a lonely hill
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely hill
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Sing for the night is o're,
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King!"
And once again the scene was changed
New earth there seemed to be,
I saw the Holy City
Beside the tideless sea
The light of god was on its streets
The gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter
And no one was denied.
No need of moon nor stars by night,
Nor sun to shine by day,
It was the new Jerusalem
That would not pass away
It was the new Jerusalem
That would not pass away
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Sing for the night is o'er
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna for evermore.
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna for evermore!"
There came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem
Beside the temple there
I heard the children singing
And ever as they sang,
Me taught the voice of angels
From heaven in answer rang
Me thought the voice of Angels
From Heaven in answer rang
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Hark! How the Angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest.
Hosanna to your King!"
And then me thought my dream was changed
The streets no longer rang
Hushed were the glad Hosannas
The little children sang
The sun grew dark with mystery,
The morn was cold and chill
As the shadow of across arose
Upon a lonely hill
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely hill
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Sing for the night is o're,
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King!"
And once again the scene was changed
New earth there seemed to be,
I saw the Holy City
Beside the tideless sea
The light of god was on its streets
The gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter
And no one was denied.
No need of moon nor stars by night,
Nor sun to shine by day,
It was the new Jerusalem
That would not pass away
It was the new Jerusalem
That would not pass away
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Sing for the night is o'er
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna for evermore.
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna for evermore!"