Andy Gullahorn

Holy Ground (tradução)

Andy Gullahorn


Terra santa


Um bom meia polegada de poeira havia construído nos bancos

Havia peças que faltam da pomba do vitral

Houve uma fechadura quebrada em uma das portas do porão

Você poderia abrir, se você empurrou-o com força suficiente

Era inverno

As ruas eram frios como o inferno

Eles colocaram seus sacos de dormir

Ao longo do trilho altar


Era terra santa

Era terra santa

Era terra santa


medida que a palavra saiu do santuário cheio

Com pessoas que não tinham outro lugar para chamar de casa

À noite eles partilhar uma refeição e passar uma garrafa por perto

Algo todos estavam acostumados a só

fora do piano desafinado

Algumas teclas não funcionam mesmo

Mas um cara poderia tocar uma música

do livro hinário


Era terra santa

Era terra santa

Era terra santa


O padre local logo recebeu a notícia

Dos vadios na igreja vazia

Foi-lhe dito para ir para a casa de Deus

e eliminá-los para fora, porque afinal de contas

Era terra santa


Ele foi recebido na porta por um homem com os braços abertos

Dizendo "bem-vindo a um lugar a que pertencemos"

Ele viu os pisos brilhantes sob os sacos de dormir

Ele podia ouvir o som de uma risada no final do corredor

Mais tarde naquela noite

medida que partiu o pão

Ele perguntou-lhes se há espaço

Para uma cama extra


porque era terra santa

Era terra santa

Era terra santa

Holy Ground


A good half-inch of dust had built up on the pews

There were pieces missing from the stained glass dove

There was a broken lock on one of the basement doors

You could open if you pushed it hard enough

It was wintertime

The streets were cold as hell

They laid their sleeping bags

Along the altar rail


It was holy ground

It was holy ground

It was holy ground


As the word got out the sanctuary filled

With folks who had no other place to call their home

At night they’d share a meal and pass a bottle around

Something they were all accustomed to alone

The piano’s out of tune

Some keys don’t even work

But one guy could play a song

Out of the hymnal book


It was holy ground

It was holy ground

It was holy ground


The local priest soon got word

Of the vagrants in the empty church

He was told to go to the house of God

And clear them out because after all

It was holy ground


He was met at the door by a man with open arms

Saying “welcome to the one place we belong”

He saw the shiny floors beneath the sleeping bags

He could hear the sound of laughter down the hall

Later on that night

As they broke the bread

He asked them if there’s room

For an extra bed


‘cause it was holy ground

It was holy ground

It was holy ground

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