[Intro - 4-bar atmospheric, distant fire crackling and wind, low drone, drums kick in at bar 3]
[Verse 1]
[01:14.68]South of Jerusalem the valley still remains,
[01:21.96]Where Ahaz burned his children in the lurid flames.
[01:29.19]Where Manasseh did the same and the prophets cried,
[01:36.66]Where the kings of Judah passed their children through the fire and died.
[01:44.14]By the time of Christ the place was the city's dump,
[01:51.57]Where the refuse of the nation took the burning lump.
[01:59.13]And the rabbis called it Gehenna and the word it gave
[02:06.41]Was the cultural shame of Israel's deepest grave.

[Pre-chorus]
[02:14.70]And when Jesus said the word it had a place in mind,
[02:18.54]Not a metaphor for somewhere the philosophers could find.
[02:25.89]A specific valley. A specific shame. A specific fire.
[02:33.13]The eschatology was geography the prophets did require.

[Chorus - GANG VOCAL]
[02:40.72]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[02:43.76]The valley of the shame and the fire that won't be sterner!
[02:48.14]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[02:51.14]The dump of the nation - and the warning of the learner!
[02:56.02]The place where the children were given to the flame!
[02:59.45]The place where the refuse of the city took its name!
[03:02.89]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[03:05.31]And the Lord spoke the word - and named the burner!

[Verse 2]
[03:17.89]The framework reads the prophet without the Greek mist,
[03:21.55]The framework names the substance with the closed fist.
[03:25.73]Gehenna was not a metaphor for a state of mind,
[03:29.74]Gehenna was a coordinate the Author had assigned.
[03:32.60]The eschatological reality the valley pre-figured
[03:37.20]Is the felt reality the uncovered have configured.
[03:47.23]The fire is the shame, the shame is the gaze,
[03:50.79]And the dump south of Salem was a flame for the days.

[Pre-chorus]
[03:55.14]And when Jesus said the word it had a place in mind,
[04:01.64]Not a metaphor for somewhere the philosophers could find.
[04:08.88]A specific valley. A specific shame. A specific fire.
[04:16.07]The eschatology was geography the prophets did require.

[Chorus - GANG VOCAL]
[04:25.62]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[04:28.30]The valley of the shame and the fire that won't be sterner!
[04:32.62]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[04:35.56]The dump of the nation - and the warning of the learner!
[04:40.32]The place where the children were given to the flame!
[04:43.74]The place where the refuse of the city took its name!
[04:47.14]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[04:49.76]And the Lord spoke the word - and named the burner!

[Chorus - GANG VOCAL]
[04:51.76]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[04:54.02]The valley of the shame and the fire that won't be sterner!
[04:56.28]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[04:58.54]The dump of the nation - and the warning of the learner!
[05:00.80]The place where the children were given to the flame!
[05:03.06]The place where the refuse of the city took its name!
[05:05.32]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[05:07.58]And the Lord spoke the word - and named the burner!

[Guitar Solo - 16 bars, Angus Young slow blues-pentatonic in D minor, sustained, mournful, building]
[Final Chorus - DOUBLE, gang vocals stacked higher, fire sounds underneath]
[05:11.84]The valley of the shame and the fire that won't be sterner!
[05:14.89]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[05:17.94]The dump of the nation - and the warning of the learner!
[05:22.13]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[05:26.33]A coordinate, not a costume - and not a learner!
[05:29.91]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[05:33.50]The Lord spoke the place - and named the burner!
[05:35.26]GEHENNA! GEHENNA!
[05:37.01]And the page of the prophet - is the page of the burner!