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5 – Your Song (Israel)

Track 5

The journey of our people through the exile to the present return and the Messianic hope.



Lyrics:

You thought you’d never make it here
You’d never overcome your fear
You waited for too many years
To ever sing your song

A son or daughter of “galut”
Exiled and cut off from your root
But now God’s hand has touched your foot
To rise up for your song

The winds of Heaven sweep the lands
In search of all of Jacob’s bands
Deep in our hearts something demands
That we be going home

You wept at the river of Bavel
You hung your hearts upon the willows
Your sadness much too deep to tell
Still they asked for your songs

You wandered then from place to place
You often had to hide your face
Your name they wanted to erase
Completely under heaven

But you kept a Sabbath and a prayer
One God for people everywhere
You prayed at Pesach every year
“Next year Jerusalem”

They herded you in cattle cars
And they sent your ashes to the stars
But they could not destroy your heart
Could not destroy your song

O seed of Jacob hear your call
You have been ransomed from your fall
Return to Eretz Israel
Come up and sing your song

The winds of heaven sweep the lands
In search of all of Jacob’s bands
Deep in our hearts something demands
That we be going home

O sons and daughters find your wings
Now fly forget the former things
Mashiach comes to be your king
To give you a new song…Israel