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Shalom Rav 5:160:00/5:16
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Yhay Shmay Rabba 4:450:00/4:45
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Disconnected 5:190:00/5:19
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Surrender 6:060:00/6:06
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Gate of Tears 5:140:00/5:14
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The Kid's Song 6:120:00/6:12
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Atah Kaosh 5:130:00/5:13
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Poseach es Y'decha 5:550:00/5:55
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Highway Of Holiness 3:510:00/3:51
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'Praying Boy' by Yisroel Koch
SHALOM RAV
Return return
Your Father calls
And wash your hands in the rain
Hear the sound of the waterfall
In the silence that remains
Chorus:
שָׁלוֹם רָב
(There is abundant peace)
לְאֹהֲבֵי תוֹרָתֶךָ, וְאֵין-לָמוֹ מִכְשׁוֹל
(To those who love Your Torah , for them there is no stumbling)
Return return
Hear the shofar call
There’s a clown who’s sweeping in the street
With his childhood toys in a broken pile
And the children laughing at his feet
Chorus:
Return return
your life it calls
thru the noise that’s deafening your heart
let the still small voice of your Master in
and hear what’s really going on…
and see what’s really going on…
Chorus:
Back to the Top
ONE EXTREME TO ANOTHER…
Chava was a child of creation
Living in her father’s garden
With her head in the clouds
And her feet in the river
Making some very strange decisions
She wanted this & she wanted that
& she wanted all the things that she wanted
& she turned away from the warmth of the sun
to the moonlight’s cold persuasion
Chorus:
And the Rebbe said:
For the hidden & essential powers are revealed
In such situations & it is possible to change
One’s life from one extreme to another
Yosef left Yerushalayim settled in the northern desert
Turning his back on the sacred things
& taking many other things for granted
& he tried to live in two different houses
His heart was badly damaged
With a long distance stare
He says that he don’t care
But deep down he knows it really matters
Chorus:
Yitzchak lives in the land of illusions
Fascinated by the carnival
He teeters so very close to the edge
That his soul is always in danger
He shares his life with unsavory types
Hustling thru the shadows
Temptations fight to get a piece of him
Because they know he’s so easily distracted
Chorus:
Johnny slept beneath the tree
Torn between the good and the evil
Pruning and plowing, sifting and staring
Never knowing which way he's going
Digging himself into a big black hole
Where the silence screams in anger
Chasing away the very heart of himself
To act temporarily like a stranger…
temporarily like a stranger
Chorus:
Back to the Top
Y’HEI SH’MEI RABA
Light ascends and light descends
And blessings come you can feel them
From morning bright thru starry night
He's breathing life into every moment
Chorus:
יְהֵא שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא מְבָרַךְ לְעָלַם וּלְעָלְמֵי עָלְמַיָּא
(May His great Name be blessed forever and for all eternity)
The journey of the soul
From the land of life to the gate of heaven
And as it all… all unfolds
The words give way to illumination
Chorus:
Bridge:
H’shem reigned H’shem reigns H’shem will reign forever
He takes life He gives life
He makes life out of nothing
Time creates and time reshapes
You feel so near and so far away
You think new You feel new
You break thru all the noise of darkness
Return return
Your Father calls
And wash your hands in the rain
Hear the sound of the waterfall
In the silence that remains
Chorus:
שָׁלוֹם רָב
(There is abundant peace)
לְאֹהֲבֵי תוֹרָתֶךָ, וְאֵין-לָמוֹ מִכְשׁוֹל
(To those who love Your Torah , for them there is no stumbling)
Return return
Hear the shofar call
There’s a clown who’s sweeping in the street
With his childhood toys in a broken pile
And the children laughing at his feet
Chorus:
Return return
your life it calls
thru the noise that’s deafening your heart
let the still small voice of your Master in
and hear what’s really going on…
and see what’s really going on…
Chorus:
Back to the Top
ONE EXTREME TO ANOTHER…
Chava was a child of creation
Living in her father’s garden
With her head in the clouds
And her feet in the river
Making some very strange decisions
She wanted this & she wanted that
& she wanted all the things that she wanted
& she turned away from the warmth of the sun
to the moonlight’s cold persuasion
Chorus:
And the Rebbe said:
For the hidden & essential powers are revealed
In such situations & it is possible to change
One’s life from one extreme to another
Yosef left Yerushalayim settled in the northern desert
Turning his back on the sacred things
& taking many other things for granted
& he tried to live in two different houses
His heart was badly damaged
With a long distance stare
He says that he don’t care
But deep down he knows it really matters
Chorus:
Yitzchak lives in the land of illusions
Fascinated by the carnival
He teeters so very close to the edge
That his soul is always in danger
He shares his life with unsavory types
Hustling thru the shadows
Temptations fight to get a piece of him
Because they know he’s so easily distracted
Chorus:
Johnny slept beneath the tree
Torn between the good and the evil
Pruning and plowing, sifting and staring
Never knowing which way he's going
Digging himself into a big black hole
Where the silence screams in anger
Chasing away the very heart of himself
To act temporarily like a stranger…
temporarily like a stranger
Chorus:
Back to the Top
Y’HEI SH’MEI RABA
Light ascends and light descends
And blessings come you can feel them
From morning bright thru starry night
He's breathing life into every moment
Chorus:
יְהֵא שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא מְבָרַךְ לְעָלַם וּלְעָלְמֵי עָלְמַיָּא
(May His great Name be blessed forever and for all eternity)
The journey of the soul
From the land of life to the gate of heaven
And as it all… all unfolds
The words give way to illumination
Chorus:
Bridge:
H’shem reigned H’shem reigns H’shem will reign forever
He takes life He gives life
He makes life out of nothing
Time creates and time reshapes
You feel so near and so far away
You think new You feel new
You break thru all the noise of darkness
DISCONNECTED
You stare into a vacant room
Preoccupied with nothing
You search the web but feel so unused
By this world that’s ignoring you
You learn the sacred holy things
They’re filed away like recipes
But who are you (now) supposed to be
‘cause you're not sure of anything
Chorus:
Disconnected…Disconnected…Disconnected...Disconnected
You want so much to be close to Him
It’s not so hard they tell you
But you don’t feel any movement
Not even when you're praying
The thoughts run out and return to you
They never seem to be part of you
Your children wave as they turn from you
And drift into the electric life
Chorus:
The water gushes from the fountain
Into the river deep and wide
You separate to be reunited
Like the day that deserts the sky
You're not scared, but you are excited
The night pours out secrets like rain
You want to change your cold dull heart
You want to make a serious...serious change.
Chorus:
Back to the Top
You stare into a vacant room
Preoccupied with nothing
You search the web but feel so unused
By this world that’s ignoring you
You learn the sacred holy things
They’re filed away like recipes
But who are you (now) supposed to be
‘cause you're not sure of anything
Chorus:
Disconnected…Disconnected…Disconnected...Disconnected
You want so much to be close to Him
It’s not so hard they tell you
But you don’t feel any movement
Not even when you're praying
The thoughts run out and return to you
They never seem to be part of you
Your children wave as they turn from you
And drift into the electric life
Chorus:
The water gushes from the fountain
Into the river deep and wide
You separate to be reunited
Like the day that deserts the sky
You're not scared, but you are excited
The night pours out secrets like rain
You want to change your cold dull heart
You want to make a serious...serious change.
Chorus:
Back to the Top
TURN FROM EVIL
(A Chassidic Tale)
There's a battle for your heart and it's raging
inside your head where your thoughts control
all the actions of your body
some can destroy and some can bring
new life to your soul
Just like Yaakov struggling with Eisav
an endless fight that never resolves
sometimes the horse leads sometimes the rider
each day you wake up you never… never really know
Chorus:
סור מרע ועשה טוב, עשה טוב, ורע יברח
will flee & evil good do, good and do from evil Turn
בקש שלום ורדפהו עשה טוב, ורע יברח
will flee & evil good do, and pursue it peace seek
He sits and dreams by a stagnant river
his feet absorbed in the slimey mud
the water churns in waves of indulgence
and all he wants to do is drift down stream and float away
The children play in a golden garden
but the beast prowls outside the walls
the gate is guarded by two drunken angels
they watch the candle burn until the night is shattered by the dawn
Chorus:
Bridge:
There are choices to be made every moment
you can't run and you surely can't hide
in the beginning the end is waiting
and every choice makes you and every choice is changing
the whole entire world..
The watchmen stand protecting and preserving
all the precious treasures of the kingdom
the foolish King is smashing out the windows
and calmly trying to steal all of the light that's rushing from the sun
And in the fields they're filling up their baskets
with all the noise gathered by the blind
where all the thoughts are gushing from the silence
yet from the darkness light reveals deep things to overcome it all
Chorus:
Back to the Top
(A Chassidic Tale)
There's a battle for your heart and it's raging
inside your head where your thoughts control
all the actions of your body
some can destroy and some can bring
new life to your soul
Just like Yaakov struggling with Eisav
an endless fight that never resolves
sometimes the horse leads sometimes the rider
each day you wake up you never… never really know
Chorus:
סור מרע ועשה טוב, עשה טוב, ורע יברח
will flee & evil good do, good and do from evil Turn
בקש שלום ורדפהו עשה טוב, ורע יברח
will flee & evil good do, and pursue it peace seek
He sits and dreams by a stagnant river
his feet absorbed in the slimey mud
the water churns in waves of indulgence
and all he wants to do is drift down stream and float away
The children play in a golden garden
but the beast prowls outside the walls
the gate is guarded by two drunken angels
they watch the candle burn until the night is shattered by the dawn
Chorus:
Bridge:
There are choices to be made every moment
you can't run and you surely can't hide
in the beginning the end is waiting
and every choice makes you and every choice is changing
the whole entire world..
The watchmen stand protecting and preserving
all the precious treasures of the kingdom
the foolish King is smashing out the windows
and calmly trying to steal all of the light that's rushing from the sun
And in the fields they're filling up their baskets
with all the noise gathered by the blind
where all the thoughts are gushing from the silence
yet from the darkness light reveals deep things to overcome it all
Chorus:
Back to the Top
SURRENDER
You started wondering
And strayed so far from where you’re from
So much confusion
Trapped in a house that’s not your home
Beyond the fantasies
Beyond the memories
No questions…no answers….nothing
Chorus:
Surrender…your feelings
Surrender…your thoughts
Surrender…your moments
Surrender…
Mystical highways
Rivers of light envelope you
Brand new realities
Limitless things to learn and do
Beyond the heartache
Beyond the mental games
No answers…no questions…nothing
Chorus:
Bridge:
Ain ohd milvado…nothing but G-d
Ain ohd milvado…nothing but Him
Silently reaching
Clinging to God with all your might
Desperately seeking
Struggling to find your very life
Beyond the hearing
Beyond the seeing
No questions…no answers…nothing
Chorus:
You started wondering
And strayed so far from where you’re from
So much confusion
Trapped in a house that’s not your home
Beyond the fantasies
Beyond the memories
No questions…no answers….nothing
Chorus:
Surrender…your feelings
Surrender…your thoughts
Surrender…your moments
Surrender…
Mystical highways
Rivers of light envelope you
Brand new realities
Limitless things to learn and do
Beyond the heartache
Beyond the mental games
No answers…no questions…nothing
Chorus:
Bridge:
Ain ohd milvado…nothing but G-d
Ain ohd milvado…nothing but Him
Silently reaching
Clinging to God with all your might
Desperately seeking
Struggling to find your very life
Beyond the hearing
Beyond the seeing
No questions…no answers…nothing
Chorus:
I have broken everything in my room
And I look but I cannot see what’s holding on
It’s so hard now to feel what I feel inside
It’s so hard to repair what is lost to time
It’s so hard
Chorus:
Lead me to
Lead me thru
Oh lead me into
The Gate of Tears
I have broken all the plugs that I use
And I can’t hear to understand
The things I need to do
It’s so hard to figure out the secrets of this life
It’s so hard to lift the darkness to the light
It’s so hard
Chorus:
I have broken thru the ceiling to the sky
And I’m pushing thru the storm to embrace the King
It’s so hard to get beyond what I want
It’s so hard to turn the voice off that screams so loud
It’s so hard
Chorus:
THE KIDS’ SONG
They sparkle like a sunrise…Shattering the darkness
Waterfalls of simcha…Diamonds in their eyes
A Holy occasion…
Families are gathered
Singing and a maamer... Higher and higher
candles of fire…Raising sparks
Chorus:
אלהים יחננו
May Hashem be gracious to you and bless you
ויברכנ יואר פניו
May He make His countenance to shine
אתנו סלה
Upon us forever
They radiate affection
It’s almost overwhelming…
They’re drawing down, refining…changing life
Their garden’s filled with flowers
Dancing and laughter...
Their path is drenched with sunlight…
Fountains are flowing... flowing with mercy…
Mercy and kindness … rivers of harmony
Chorus:
They turn to face each other
It’s way beyond feelings
They’re digging thru the secrets…soul to soul
No veils… only brightness… infinite levels
They’re focused on Mashiach
Working for redemption
Learning and rising… rising and rising…
Higher and higher…. Endlessly
Chorus:
Back to the Top
ATAH KADOSH
They stand and sway and
listen to their heartbeats as they pray
the angels watch as fiery thoughts
ascend to find their place
calling calling it's all revolving
calling calling it's all revolving
calling calling calling
Chorus:
ואתה קדושת, יושב תהלות ישראל
and You holy One, are enthroned upon the praises of Israel
Below the glowing canopy
their teardrops speak to higher things
though creatures scream and sirens sing
they seem to be so serene
turning burning it's all returning
turning yearning it's all returning
turning turning turning
Chorus:
Bridge: וקרא זה אל זה ואמר קדוש קדוש קדוש
and one (angel) will call to another and say 'Holy Holy Holy'
ה` צבקות, מלא כל הארץ כבודו
is the Lord of host. the whole earth is full of His glory
Between the pillars of the sky
a dreamy stillnesss reigns
electric sparks break thru the dark
and shatter what remains
striving striving it's all dissolving
striving striving it's all dissolving
striving striving striving
Chorus:
Back to the Top
They sparkle like a sunrise…Shattering the darkness
Waterfalls of simcha…Diamonds in their eyes
A Holy occasion…
Families are gathered
Singing and a maamer... Higher and higher
candles of fire…Raising sparks
Chorus:
אלהים יחננו
May Hashem be gracious to you and bless you
ויברכנ יואר פניו
May He make His countenance to shine
אתנו סלה
Upon us forever
They radiate affection
It’s almost overwhelming…
They’re drawing down, refining…changing life
Their garden’s filled with flowers
Dancing and laughter...
Their path is drenched with sunlight…
Fountains are flowing... flowing with mercy…
Mercy and kindness … rivers of harmony
Chorus:
They turn to face each other
It’s way beyond feelings
They’re digging thru the secrets…soul to soul
No veils… only brightness… infinite levels
They’re focused on Mashiach
Working for redemption
Learning and rising… rising and rising…
Higher and higher…. Endlessly
Chorus:
Back to the Top
ATAH KADOSH
They stand and sway and
listen to their heartbeats as they pray
the angels watch as fiery thoughts
ascend to find their place
calling calling it's all revolving
calling calling it's all revolving
calling calling calling
Chorus:
ואתה קדושת, יושב תהלות ישראל
and You holy One, are enthroned upon the praises of Israel
Below the glowing canopy
their teardrops speak to higher things
though creatures scream and sirens sing
they seem to be so serene
turning burning it's all returning
turning yearning it's all returning
turning turning turning
Chorus:
Bridge: וקרא זה אל זה ואמר קדוש קדוש קדוש
and one (angel) will call to another and say 'Holy Holy Holy'
ה` צבקות, מלא כל הארץ כבודו
is the Lord of host. the whole earth is full of His glory
Between the pillars of the sky
a dreamy stillnesss reigns
electric sparks break thru the dark
and shatter what remains
striving striving it's all dissolving
striving striving it's all dissolving
striving striving striving
Chorus:
Back to the Top
Poseach es Y'decha
Everyday I wake I feel your hand upon my heart
Upon my soul
And every feeling leads me to your tree of life
And leads me to your mercy
Turning, always turning, always yearning for your love
Your strength and your harmony
Chorus:
פּוֹתֵחַ אֶת יָדֶךָ וּמַשְׂבִּיעַ לְכָל חַי רָצוֹן
( You open up Your Hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing)
Reaching out and clinging to your faithfulness
Down winding twisting swirling roads
Clarifying rectifying Holiness
Chasing back the heavy load
Running, always running, never standing still
Oh heal us
Chorus:
Hashem is near to all those who call to Him
To all who call Him in truthfulness
The will of those who fear Him He fulfills for them
He hears their cry and delivers them
Give thanks and give your praises to the Holy One
To the Only One to Hashem our God
Chorus:
Back to the Top
HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS
Where are the righteous the people of G-d
the beloved of their King, their Creator
who have stood on the edge
of the darkest abyss
to get back to the Highway of Holiness
And where are the children of Yisroel
who have exiled themselves from their Master
who are wand’ring thru mountains
and rivers of thought
in search of the Highway of Holiness
Bridge:
Where we laugh and we sing
and our soul feels release
in the kindness and joy of His light
And where are the chosen
who cling to their land
and who pray for this night to be over
who believe that Mashiach
will come to redeem
and
to dance down the Highway of Holiness
Back to the Top
BETWEEN EXILE & REDEMPTION
Everyday I wake I feel your hand upon my heart
Upon my soul
And every feeling leads me to your tree of life
And leads me to your mercy
Turning, always turning, always yearning for your love
Your strength and your harmony
Chorus:
פּוֹתֵחַ אֶת יָדֶךָ וּמַשְׂבִּיעַ לְכָל חַי רָצוֹן
( You open up Your Hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing)
Reaching out and clinging to your faithfulness
Down winding twisting swirling roads
Clarifying rectifying Holiness
Chasing back the heavy load
Running, always running, never standing still
Oh heal us
Chorus:
Hashem is near to all those who call to Him
To all who call Him in truthfulness
The will of those who fear Him He fulfills for them
He hears their cry and delivers them
Give thanks and give your praises to the Holy One
To the Only One to Hashem our God
Chorus:
Back to the Top
HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS
Where are the righteous the people of G-d
the beloved of their King, their Creator
who have stood on the edge
of the darkest abyss
to get back to the Highway of Holiness
And where are the children of Yisroel
who have exiled themselves from their Master
who are wand’ring thru mountains
and rivers of thought
in search of the Highway of Holiness
Bridge:
Where we laugh and we sing
and our soul feels release
in the kindness and joy of His light
And where are the chosen
who cling to their land
and who pray for this night to be over
who believe that Mashiach
will come to redeem
and
to dance down the Highway of Holiness
Back to the Top
BETWEEN EXILE & REDEMPTION
You take away all the lies
You take away all the many illusions
It makes you feel so alone inside
Makes you feel so suspicious of everything
Between all the phoney solutions
Your stuck in this night
Between exile & redemption
A foolish crime with no alibi
A circus clown with a heart made of stone
A fragile child with a shattered mind
A heavy sigh that will never be understood
between the boring excitement
You're frozen in time
Between exile & redemption
The light is dim encased in oblivion
Asleep in caves
We are buried alive
We seek delight in the fragrant mountains
We thirst for rain from the desolate sky
Between the past and the future
We're stuck with ourselves
Between exile and redemption
You hope and pray your heart's full of roses
Your joy exceeds any possible dream
You've got a plan and you're feeling important
The sun is warm
It's a beautiful day
Between these moments you wander
Adrift on the sea
Between exile and redemption
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