How (I) Long

Oh how I long to see you!
To be with you night and day!

Oh how I long to hold you close!
To comfort you in every way!

Hear me!
Listen as I cry!

Look at me,
into a father's tear filled eyes!

How long?
How long will it be
until you finally come back to me?

Oh how I long to care for you!
To do for you all I've wanted to do!

Beloved daughter,
like the city I love,
you're taken hostage by vile oppressors!

Return to me so I can be with you!
Come back to me so I can bless you!

Hear me!
Listen as I cry!

Look at me,
into a father's tear filled eyes!

How long?
How long will it be
until you finally come back to me?

Oh Yahrushalom,
you are my prized possession!

Oh Zion,
You are my beautiful daughter!

Come to me
so I can be with you!

Stay with me
won't you let me bless you?

Hear me!
Listen as I cry!

Look at me,
into a father's tear filled eyes!

How long?
How long will it be
until you finally come back to me?