Translations & Playlists
Current Israeli Music - YouTube Playlist
This began as the YouTube playlist that accompanied my Limmud presentation "Arabic, Mediterranean, Spirituality & Rap: Current Israeli Music". I have continued to add to it selected contemporary Israeli popular music.
"Be glad," she said,"that God has given you fifty yearsin this world" -though she didn't knowthere is no division between, as I see it,my days that have passedand Noah's, of which I've heard.In the world I have nothing
but the hour I'm in,
which stands for a moment,and then like a cloud moves on.
The Layback ת'לייבאק
There's this one who gives the LaybackHe brings it on like one who's stonedAnd another who brings the LaybackWith no thought of confusion-zoneUnderstand for me the LaybackIt's a part of my whole thingAh Ah Ah Ah LaybackAnd we'll all stay in the one
All that time, I was aloneAll that time, every day, again,All that time, I was alone...Tell me, do you remember the hevre? (group of friends)? Remember the apartment? Remember the laughs? You confessed you were in love with me after barely two days. In our room of rooms we cried aloud we laughed up to the skies. You said in me was a blessing, and you kissed my hands.
In the end it comes down to meto my own points of viewDon't understand the hints, perhaps,the colours or the codes
A quick glimpse at myself's enoughBetter not to lookwhat's within me's too deep within - they call this: a habit
A quick glimpse at myself's enoughBetter not to lookwhat's within me's too deep within - they call this: a habit
I will go to mountainsI will seek counselI will take with me nothingjust prayer
who calls me?strumming a stringhis steps are faintin his heart - light
what is night without you?and the morning illuminationyou will come to me
who calls me?strumming a stringhis steps are faintin his heart - light
what is night without you?and the morning illuminationyou will come to me