The Historama
Alex Ben-Arieh
P.O.Box 32128
Tel Aviv, Israel 61321
Phone: +972-547-680-086
Fax: +972-3-546-1971
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The Historama Alex Ben-Arieh P.O.Box 32128 Tel Aviv, Israel 61321 Phone: +972-547-680-086 Fax: +972-3-546-1971 |
| Israeli Contemporary & Female Music with Lyrics |
| Below are Israeli songs from the last 10-15 years (solo artists and music groups), together with translations of their lyrics.
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Contemporary Hits (the list is sortable by clicking on the column names)
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Song Title: Something Small and Good [live] ("Mashehu Katan ve Tov") Musician: Mashina Video: From September 2003 concert in Caesaria (Yuval Banai - vocals, Shlomi Brakha - lead guitar, Avner Khodorov - keyboards/sax/accordion, Michael Benson - bass, Iggy Dayan - drums) Year Released: 2003 Credits: lyrics and music by Yuval Banai and Shlomi Brakha Website: www.mashina.com Comments: Mashina's first release - and a major hit - after a hiatus of 8 years. Recorded live in Caesaria. Hear the song! |
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I don't see now the light, looking for it in vain Wandering across the whole area, from place to place Like a scratched old record, like a knight on a white horse Going on no accomplishments, everything will be done alone by himself And it seems that this is good, that's how he needs to love And it seems that it's close, something small and good... You won't be able to hold it, if you seek it it will get lost A man needs to move from place to place Deep in the heart of darkness something comes and goes The liight that's on the hurt is exposed, in sadness and joy it lies And it seem that this is good, that's how he needs to love And it seems that it's close, something small and good... I don't see now the light, looking for it in vain Wandering across the whole area, from place to place.... And it seems that this is good, that's how he needs to love And it seems that it's close, something small and good And it seems that this is good, that's how he needs to love... back to menu |
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Song Title: Birthday (remix) ("Yomuledet") Musician: Berry Sakharof and Infected Mushroom Video: Video of Infected Mushroom's remix featuring Berry Year Released: 2002 Credits: lyrics and music by Berry Sakharof; remixed by Infected Mushroom Website: www.berry.co.il Comments: Hear the song! |
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Today is a birthday Look, there is an old-new secret here To slice the bread To touch something nearly perfect It's already the middle of the night I thought perhaps its worthwhile to sleep But something is stuck Stuck deep down in my throat That's right, you know You make me crazy Before you run away, come without fear And take me like this Today is a birthday I thought of almost all of the details I ordered a room Blue skies with stars That's right, you know You make me crazy Before you run away, come without fear And take me like this back to menu |
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Song Title: Not Suckers ("Lo Freierim") Musician: Hadag Nakhash ('Fish Snake') Video: From Israel Channel 24 Music TV Year Released: 2003 Credits: lyrics by Sha'anan Street and Hadag Nakhash; and music by Hadag Nakhash Website: www.levantini.com/hadag/ Comments: Hear the song! |
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Until when will we stop dreaming we're a MIG in the sky flying high over the stench at a safe distance of 5 minutes from Kfar Sava... Until when will we stop closing our eyes to what's going on under our nose and accepting that everything's just groovy Beer from the fridge we'll bring, to a different channel we'll surf Until when will we stop thinking of endless alcohol and non-stop f**king So what if my neighbor is Danny Yatom I went to the funeral and went to him in mourning but the cycle of suffering is too big for me to break And we'll do reserve duty, and we'll pay taxes And we'll stand in traffic - for us they'll never screw We're definitely, definitely, definitely not We're definitely not suckers My friends says "enough, stop being heavy" And I'm not arguing, but the situation is absurd Try to find some examples And if you don't succeed, wait for me 'Cause if here falls a missile, over there is still more worthlessness What does it matter who succeeds - Jordan, Katash or Shaqueel And if here is a firing zone, over there is a mine What does it matter if I pay by cheque, credit or cash And with 700 [Shekels] for water and 2000 for city tax It's certain that I participate in the deal for... Left, right, look on the sides And we'll do reserve duty, and we'll pay taxes And we'll stand in traffic - for us they'll never screw We're definitely, definitely, definitely not We're definitely not suckers And sometimes everything simply looks strange, not put together Like a nun in a whore-house, or a whore in a convent Everything's going from failure to failure A tear from the eye slides down the cheek, and you? I'm crying about it all Crying about how everything could have been good there could have been h-a-r-m-o-n-y... From the Synagogue to the flack jacket to the Mosque Shopping mall, Church, everything could have been one Instead of this, there's a feeling of "Help" Living in a sense of such an "As if" Without looking at the reality in the face Without moving ahead, just trying to watch To disconnect Doing everything, just not to get screwed Doing everything, just not to get screwed And we'll do reserve duty, and we'll pay taxes And we'll stand in traffic - for us they'll never screw We're definitely, definitely, definitely not We're definitely not suckers back to menu |
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Song Title: Borders ("Gvulot") Musician: Ehud Banai Year Released: 2004 Credits: lyrics and music by Ehud Banai Website: www.ehudbanai.co.il Comments: This song is an allegory of Israel during the period of the current Intifada. Politically, it's pessimistic message came 'late' - after the IDF managed to subdue the main force of the Intifada in operation "Defensive Shield" (2002); musically however, this song and the album itself are probably the finest pieces of Israeli music produced in the last 10 years. Backing vocals with Salaam Darwish Hear the song! |
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He's already not so young, more than 50 years old And he's experiencing difficult times Fighting with the irritating neighbor in the yard Each one saying: "I'll die (first), but with you I won't speak" He's completely not at peace, living on the edge Never understanding what he really wants Curses and apologises, going wild and relenting He cries alone at night when no one's watching Rises every morning and sees that the night continues Doesn't remember where he came from and now where he'll go Turns from side to side, torn up from within Confused and divided, he lives on pills He has no time to sit and eat like a human being Everything he sticks in a pita, flies on the street ahead of everyone Overtakes from the right, then cuts sharply to the left He'd like to straighten up, but now can't really manage to Between and you, between us and them Between darkness and light, between land and sea Between religious and secular, between sweetness and bitter Without borders there's no limit for anything There's a border to despair, there's no limit for hope There's a border to hate, there's no limit to love There's a border to reality, there's no limit to the dream There's a border to war, there's no limit to peace From time to time he remembers when he was young There was a dream, there was hope on the clear horizon But now he sees clouds of fear And he runs straight home after work Stuck in a traffic jam, helpless, honks in rage Turns on the radio and thinks: "just not this, just not again" Smokes like a chiminy, worries for the kids And the path to his heart is strewn with bypasses Between and you, between us and them Between darkness and light, between land and sea Between religious and secular, between sweetness and bitter Without borders there's no limit for anything There's a border to despair, there's no limit for hope There's a border to hate, there's no limit to love There's a border to reality, there's no limit to the dream There's a border to war, there's no limit to peace back to menu |
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Song Title: Perhaps on the Sea-shore ("Ulay Al Sfat Ha'Yam") Musician: Yehoram Gaon (remixed by The Doves - "Ha'Yonim") Video: Yehoram Gaon (remixed by The Doves - "Ha'Yonim") Year Released: (1971) 2005 Credits: lyrics by Ehud Manor; music by Nurit Hirsh Comments: Hear the song! |
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Go find the happiness Between the pillow and the blanket, In me, or her, or in yourself Or perhaps on the sea shore Brooks are streaming towards the sea And at the sea every path ends Also the sun sets there Don't tell me why Go find the direction In the notes of the music In the tail of the octopus Or perhaps on the sea shore Brooks are streaming towards the sea And at the sea every path ends Also the sun sets there Don't tell me why Brooks are streaming towards the sea And at the sea every path ends Also the sun sets there Don't tell me why Go find the Truth In the Torah or the scriptures In a sad barn owl Or perhaps on the sea shore Brooks are streaming towards the sea And at the sea every path ends Also the sun sets there Don't tell me why Go find G-d In the gardens, in the stones In the leaves, in the stamen Or perhaps on the sea shore Brooks are streaming towards the sea And at the sea every path ends Also the sun sets there Don't tell me why Don't tell me why back to menu |
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Song Title: The Child in You [live] ("Ha Yeled She'bekha") Musician: Yehuda Poliker Video: original music video Year Released: (1995) 1996 Credits: lyrics by Yehuda Poliker and Ya'akov Gil'ad; music by Yehuda Poliker Website: www.nmc-music.co.il/nmc/artists/poliker/ Comments: Hear the song! |
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There is out there some kind of record There is some kind of sadness But there is life outside There still is more love You burn dead hours and piles of newspapers every weekend Family pictures of others, on the windows burn you You go out when it's already dark, dressed in black You drive and drive at the speed of light As if there's some kind of record that only you can break You hide the beatings, the open wounds and scars that haven't healed You remember little details that others before years already forgot Sometimes you sink and sustain everything Sometimes you hurt someone dear, from coldness As if there's some kind of pain that only you can tolerate There is out there some kind of record that you haven't broken yet And there is some kind of pain that you already know There is some kind of switch that only you can close But there is life outside that you haven't finished And there is more love that you haven't yet loved There is some kind of switch that no one ever will be able to close The child there is a man lost, feeling abandonned, rejected, robbed of dreams in the darkness And he falls asleep and wakes up, thrusts his hand and forgets that there's no one there And in the dream descends a child tied from behind, and this is the child that's in you But they call for him to return, and there's some kind of switch that only you can close There is out there some kind of record that you haven't broken yet And there is some kind of pain that you already know There is some kind of switch that only you can close But there is life outside that you haven't finished And there is more love that you haven't yet loved There is some kind of switch that no one ever will be able to close There is out there some kind of record There is some kind of sadness There is some kind of switch that only you can close But there is life outside that you haven't finished And there is more love that you haven't yet loved There is some kind of switch that no one ever will be able to close back to menu |
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Song Title: On Full Moon Nights ("Be'Leilot Shel Yare'akh Maleh") Musician: Eran Tzur Year Released: 2000 Credits: lyrics and music by Eran Tzur Website: www.eranzur.com/main.htm Comments: Hear the song! |
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On full moon nights I see you next to me Us lying on the bed in darkness All the windows open The light reflects on us Silvery and milky Here is you face Here are the eyes Here is the refined smile Here are the fears and detatchment Here is worry for me And here is happiness Because we're here together We have love Would you believe it After all this desert What a consolation On full moon nights Fantasy turns into reality Almost as if you can touch it By way of memory - in the imagination I know, it's true you're not mine But now, in the darkness you're with me We have love Would you believe it After all this desert What a consolation back to menu |
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Song Title: In a Striped Shirt ("Be'Khultzat Pasim") Musician: Ivri Lider Year Released: 1999 Credits: lyrics and music by Ivri Lider Website: www.ivrilider.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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In a beautiful city full of longings, I walk To give into my desires to fall in love And to the beauty that sends me to the clouds Love like this without boundaries Now I swallow the spit which has accumulated in my mouth Opportunities like these in life won't be many In a thin striped shirt with an unusual hat It's the eyes that make the difference so beautiful Now I'm shocked and then return Take my time, don't hurry I hear from outside That my mouth is saying, what my mouth is saying Now it's forever or else to give up I came for one, and left with another In a new Japanese car At the [bus] stops I drive fast In a beautiful city full of believers I want to find my life, to get adjusted When you drink just a little everything seems suddenly so nice When the girl beside me tells me how hard it is And how the people around her stop her, and what will be In a thin striped shirt with an unusual hat It's the lips that give me a kiss on the mouth Now I'm shocked and then return Take my time, don't hurry I hear from outside That my mouth is saying, what my mouth is saying Now it's forever or else to give up I came for one, and left with another In a new Japanese car At the [bus] stops I drive fast back to menu |
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Song Title: 15 Minutes ("Khamesh-esre Dakot") Musician: Assaf Amdursky Year Released: 1999 Credits: lyrics and music by Assaf Amdursky Website: www.amdursky.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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Flies over the city Shooting at them flashing arrows in the eyes Air in the bays floats in the currents Pleasant like tickles Electricity in the ears, shivers of pleasure Fifteen minutes, flutes and violins I simply want to be someone they'll remember Give a sparkling smile, end of the balloon will explode It's not worth over-exerting yourself In any case, from end to end it's always summed up in the same point The stains are removed The nights get shorter To a white line between background to background Sweet revenge Silent engines Trains of words cross paths like shadows above me and above the city, lifting me up The bulge of the breasts hides the face Fifteen minutes Photographers and ashtrays I simply want to be someone they'll remember back to menu |
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Song Title: Dark Dream ("Khalom Keheh") Musician: Assaf Amdursky Video: Assaf Amdursky with the band Knesiat Ha'Sekhel ("Entry of the Mind") Year Released: 1999 Credits: lyrics and music by Assaf Amdursky Website: www.amdursky.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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They'll always find us thrown out on the pavement Days which fell off from us will be presented on display in the newspapers Headlines which reverberate, and the heart breaks Something inside died already years ago And the noise in the head We don't manage to breath Many emotions Guilt Many deviations from the conscience And a hole of emptiness One foot squeezes the gas Sunken eyes, deep inside a dark dream Can't stop In the newspapers, headlines which reverberate And the heart breaks And everything remains pale like always I have freedom, I have a goal You don't have to go back There's still a desire You can find a corner Give me the end or find me the beginning [TV clip:] There are things that exist inside and we're like not aware of them We're always full of dark feelings, opening the papers and saying "Well, another disaster" but it's not like that It's a shame that we reached such a terrible condition where it's normal to wake up and see this I know I woke up, I woke up somehow back to menu |
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Song Title: Nails and Feathers ("Masmerim ve'Notzot") Musician: Micha Shitreet (pronounced "Shetreet") Video: original music video Year Released: 1998 Credits: lyrics by Micha Shitreet and Miki Zar; music by Micha Shitreet, Berry Sakharof and Yizhar Ashdot Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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Once I could swallow the whole world I rode on a bicycle with my hands in the air Once I was a bad animal and you were a sweetie Once I really lived Once you were close to me, now you're distant Once you used to cry less and laugh more Once, when you were happy you used to dance Once you really lived And now? What now? Nails and feathers - a bird that doesn't fly And now? What now? Nails and feathers - a bird that doesn't fly Once I could swallow a full moon You didn't bite your fingernails, you used to scratch You got dressed in full light before me, now you're embarrassed Once you were real Once I could tell you "Behold you are my bride..." I broke the glass and left the house Once you could twist me around your finger Once we were real And now? What now? Nails and feathers - a bird that doesn't fly And now? What now? Nails and feathers - a bird that doesn't fly Once.. no, no there won't be another time Twice you gave up for me and once on me Once you wanted to know and I forgot What we really were And now? What now? Nails and feathers - a bird that doesn't fly back to menu |
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Song Title: Enta Omri (You Are My Life) ("Inti Omri") Musician: Micha Shitreet (pronounced "Shetreet") Year Released: 1998 Credits: lyrics and music by Micha Shitreet Website: On Um Kulthum Comments: Based on the Arabic song 'You Are My Life' (Enta Omri) by Um Kulthum, the Egyptian diva. Hear the song! |
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They're closing the plant, come we'll go home It doesn't pay, doesn't pay... doesn't pay It's a matter of economics, of politics Issues of a global scale But not on the issue, not on our issue And you're beautiful, oh so beautiful And like then, so also now 'Enta Omri' We listened to the man who said and said And we believed in everyone who spoke about G-d Words, words, words Many, many, many But not on the issue, not on our issue And you're beautiful, oh so beautiful And like then, so also now 'Enta Omri' back to menu |
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Song Title: Landscape of Childhood ("Nof Yaldut") Musician: Shlomo Artzi Year Released: (1971) 2000 Credits: lyrics and music by Shlomo Artzi Website: www.shlomoartzi.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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The landscape of the old buildings Which were shadows in my childhood days Since then have passed many years Since then have passed many years The landscape of the old buildings is already crumbling And its walls are disappearing Since then have passed many years Since then have passed many years In the Garden of Eden of childhood Which had flourished I was part of the landscape. Today I'm just a visitor In the tree garden which is peeling Which were shadows from my childhood days The branches have already broken Old age suddenly surged forth I am walking and you're with me And they altogether are disappearing Old age suddenly surged forth What a day it is. In the Garden of Eden of childhood Which had flourished I was part of the landscape. Today I'm just a visitor back to menu |
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Song Title: Overtakes From Above ("Okef Mi Lemala") Musician: Mookie Video: Original music video pulled from the "Musika 24" channel; features Mookie and Piloni Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics by Danny ("Mookie") Niv; music by Danny ("Piloni") Kirk Website: shabakmusic.co.il Comments: Hear the song! |
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I deliver the message to you telepathically Hitting in the head in my problematic way When I beat, I hit mathematically One by one I kill them automatically I present the anti-plastic reality Life I wrap up, rhyming bombastically This is the truth which strikes us drastically - The alternative which is fanstastic If we try to examine our being objectively We'll see ourselves rotting passively What turns me on over and over aggressively Flows and froths with the massive music Indulge myself on the microphone psychopathically My splif sits on my hand aristocratically I march on the way to freedom systematically With a desirous heart and a militant spirit. On my way to the beyond, I overtake from above Between myself and the tomorrow separates just the night Moving towards the beyond - overtaking from above Because what is freedom after all If not the victory of the man over himself? We're dust in space, everything we could have been and we're not. Because what is freedom after all If not the victory of the man over himself? We're dust in space, everything we could have been and we're not. I build my existence logistically Against the events I'm prepared militaristically Against a world which goes and dumbs down sadistically A world whose heart froze it statistically How is it to live in a post-traumatic society Which gets addicted to hate narcomatically? How she drowns in the bureaucratic morass Dead eyes which gaze at me antipathically As she fries my brain cellularly She and her conscience which crumbles molecularly This is the stored thing for the moment of need modularly This is the branded thing, all of it fattened dollaristically Mook comes and brings the fire, sparking it vocally The words burn and don't get burned, attacks verbally Always in motion, managed multistylistically I fight my battles mentally. On my way to the beyond, I overtake from above Between myself and the tomorrow separates just the night Moving towards the beyond - overtaking from above Because what is freedom after all If not the victory of the man over himself? We're dust in space, everything we could have been and we're not. Because what is freedom after all If not the victory of the man over himself? We're dust in space, everything we could have been and we're not. And if you'll say I'm exaggerating with this dramatically I say that your idea is not relevant I cut and avoid the brain-washing acrobatically And it's impossible to squeeze me into a compact slogan It's impossible to take me and market me authentically It's impossible to dazzle me, to lie to me cosmetically The good which returns to the creator of it magnetically Peels all the masks from you poetically On my way to the beyond, I overtake from above Between myself and the tomorrow separates just the night Moving towards the beyond - overtaking from above Because what is freedom after all If not the victory of the man over himself? We're dust in space, everything we could have been and we're not. Because what is freedom after all If not the victory of the man over himself? We're dust in space, everything we could have been and we're not. back to menu |
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Song Title: Today ("Ha'Yom") Musician: Shalom Hanoch (featuring 'Monica Sex') Year Released: 2003 Credits: lyrics and music by Shalom Hanoch Website: Comments: Hear the song! |
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Just yesterday, just yesterday I simply got fed up with everything To die I wanted, not to suffer But to die I always can And today the wind changed It took away the pain I don't know how It's definitely because of you Just yesterday, not long ago I was a king, Don Juan The most known, the biggest of all The most artistic without falling And today there aren't anymore clouds Everything lightens up the face I've started to smile I don't know how It's definitely because of you Just yesterday, not long ago Late at night, far from here Barefoot in the weeds, walking in the forest To smoke in the rain on the little bridge And to dream Today the wind turned over I started to smile I don't know how It's definitely because of you There aren't anymore clouds And everything lightens up the face I don't know how It's definitely because of you Because of you... back to menu |
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Song Title: City Evening ("Erev Ironi") Musician: Yossi Banai Video: Clip from his performance "From So Much Love" Year Released: 1987 Credits: lyrics by Natan Alterman; music by Yoni Rechter Website: Comments: Yossi Banai (1932 - 11 May 2006) is one more in a string of musical treasures that have left us in the last three years, following Natan Yonathan, Nomi Shemer, Arik Lavie, Ehud Manor, Uzi Hitman and Shoshana Damari. Banai began his musical career in the first draft of the Nachal brigade band ("Lahakat Ha'Nachal", which became legendary for its songs and the subsequent stars it produced in the '50s and '60s), in 1951. After his army service he joined the "Ha'Bima" theater and became a successful stage entertainer. Later he wrote the materials for the country's legendary comedy troupe "The Pale Scout Trio" ("Ha'Gashash Ha'Khiver"), and released musical albums of his own which became successful in their own right. One of his key contributions to Israeli music was his incorporation of the French 'Chanson' tradition of careful language, storytelling and sound into the arena of popular Israeli song. He translated songs of Brel, Brassens and Moustaki into Hebrew and incorporated them into his presentations of Israeli song. Though this song is already almost 20 years old, out of respect to him and the poet of the words I've placed it in as 'contemporary' as nothing about its sound justifies consigning it to more out of date music periods. Hear the song! |
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A pink sunset between the rooves Blue asphalt from below Womens' eyes, sad, sad, say to the evening Why did you come? The street-lamps are the flowers of the city Blooming in the scented light A sad electric Spring in the city From its intoxication it's forbidden to run away He's just an orphan and just innocent Born for a moment and then no longer Between the nights and the days He comes to color our eyes [Chorus] He's just an orphan and just innocent Born for a moment and then no longer Between the nights and the days He comes to color our eyes Between the days and the nights Shows a blue appearance which we go towards All our breaths are worn out Over there the grass, which the weeds consume The naive wave of a small girl Her smile carried in a car What there was and what there wasn't It seems as if it will come to be again At the moment I'm just one And I look, very quietly How the moon extracts a breast From the wall of the building opposite [Chorus] At the moment I'm just one And I look, very quietly How the moon extracts a breast From the wall of the building opposite My body gets smaller and dwarfed But my head is so high up So that even if I go I won't look at where I'm going A pink sunset at the end of the road Like a tunnel of light blue He who reaches the end Will want to cry from all what could have been [Chorus] A pink sunset at the end of the road Like a tunnel of light blue He who reaches the end Will want to cry from all what could have been A pink sunset between the rooves Blue asphalt from below Womens' eyes, sad, sad, say to the evening Why did you come? back to menu |
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Song Title: I See You ("Ani Ro'eh Otkha") Musician: Shlomo Artzi and Shalom Hanoch Video: from their concert in Caesaria 2005 Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics and music by Shlomo Artzi and Shalom Hanoch Website: Comments: Near contemporaries of one another, Shlomo Artzi (born 1949) and Shalom Hanoch (born 1946) developed into the country's most popular and prolific singer-songwriters even though they never performed or collaborated together, much to everyone's retroactive suprise - including theirs. Artzi pursued a pop-rock sound from the late '60s while Hanoch focused mostly on blues, though much of early Israel's rock music was written by him as early as the mid-'60s. Last year and this they went on tour together, with the concept being that each would chose and sing songs from the other, playing it with his own band (Hanoch: Moshe Levy, Roni Peterson, et. al.; Artzi: Meir Israel, Avi Singolda, et. al.), and this song - conveying their awareness of each other and their relative similarities through the distance and the years - was the thematic emblem of their "Connection" concert series. Hear the song! |
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[Artzi]: If I look, I see you [Artzi]: If I count, I count on you [Artzi]: You're not always like me, just similar to me sometimes [Artzi]: If you call for me I come right away [Hanoch]: If I look, I see you [Hanoch]: If you remain, I'll stay with you [Hanoch]: If you call for me, I'm here nearby [Hanoch]: You're a little like me, you're like me a little If I become silent don't take it to heart Let the music sing to the soul [Hanoch]: I catch a guitar, and begin to sing I come home, don't leave the city If I look, I see you If I count, I count on you [Hanoch]: You're a little like me, and also a little different [Artzi]: Speak to me, if that suits you If I listen I understand you If you remain, I'll stay with you Sometimes on the path, you're not alone [Hanoch]: You're a little like me, you're like me a little If you lie on a beach, thinking about nothing [Hanoch]: What is redemption if you don't see the end? [Hanoch]: Like the question, "where is G-d?" [Hanoch]: A conversation that begins itself, so how don't they see? [Artzi]: If things will be a little good, that would be wonderful [Artzi]: If we sing for fun like there's no tomorrow Call me up, it's not such a big deal [Artzi]: You can leave a number, I'll get back to you on time [Artzi]: If I look, I see you [Hanoch]: You're a little like me... a little... a little... a little... a little... [Hanoch]: If things would be a little good [Hanoch]: You're a little like me [Hanoch]: If I become silent don't take it to heart [Hanoch]: Let the music sing to the soul [Hanoch]: Look at her and continue to sing [Hanoch]: I come home, don't leave the city [Artzi]: If you begin a sentence, I'll find it an ending [Artzi]: If you draw me a line, I'll add to it a setting [Artzi]: And if you go, and I come from across [Artzi]: So let's go together, we'll go on a journey [Hanoch]: If you begin a sentence, I'll find it an ending [Artzi]: We'll go on a journey [Hanoch]: If you draw me a line, I'll add to it a setting [Artzi]: We'll go on a journey [Hanoch]: And if you go, and I come from across [Artzi]: We'll go on a journey [Hanoch]: So let's go together, we'll go on a journey If I look, I see you If I count, I count on you If you call for me I come right away You're a little like me, you're like me a little [Hanoch]: If I become silent don't take it to heart [Artzi]: You're a little like me [Hanoch]: Let the music sing to the soul [Artzi]: You're a little like me [Hanoch]: Look at her and continue to sing I come home, don't leave the city If I look, I see you If I count, I count on you You're not always like me, just similar to me sometimes If you call for me I come right away If I look, I see you If I count, I count on you You're not always like me, just similar to me sometimes If you call for me I come right away If I look, I see you back to menu |
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Song Title: Arik ("Arik") Musician: Shlomi Shaban Year Released: 2000 Credits: lyrics by Shlomi Shaban; music by Shlomi Shaban Website: Comments: Amusing song based on a real experience by Shaban who was dating a girl who was seeing him and another man ("Arik") at the same time. The phrase "Bleed for me" comes from the Velvet Underground song 'Venus in Furs'. Hear the song! |
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When you're in my bed Don't talk about Arik Don't talk about Arik Me and my thing don't like Arik Arik causes us to shrink Don't talk about Arik Don't talk about Arik Don't talk about Arik Don't talk You want to talk about Arik Go be with Arik Don't talk about Arik Don't talk about Arik What's the story with this Arik anyway? You always remember him when you're with me Is your game double-meaning-ed? Do you throw my name around in Arik's room? Don't talk about Arik You just said Arik You just said Arik I'm getting tired You want to talk about Arik Go be with Arik Don't talk about Arik No more Ho-ho "This Arik", she continues "He's got on himself" If he has on himself, I thought Why are you on me? And if you're already on me Why is he on top of us? Why is he burdening us? What, what did we do wrong? Don't talk about Arik Don't talk about Arik Don't talk about Arik Don't talk You see, you just said Arik to me I'm getting emotionally disturb-ariked Don't talk about Arik No more And now the truth Tell me the truth Who f***s better, Arik or I? What does that mean, everyone is different? Speak in grades, lady, speak in numbers Don't even answer me Don't even answer me Don't even answer me It's not my business You see, you just said Arik to me I'm getting emotionally disturb-ariked Don't talk about Arik No more And now I'm a cowboy In the wild, wild west And I'm gonna shoot Arik Yes, I'm gonna shoot Arik now Bleed for me Don't talk about Arik back to menu |
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Song Title: America ("America") Musician: Ethnix Video: original music video from Channel "Musika 24" Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics by Ze'ev Nechama; music by Ze'ev Nechama and Tamir Kalisky Website: www.ethnix.co.il Comments: Hear the song! |
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People travel to America, When there's America everywhere There's something good in a faraway land And sometimes it's just a dream And you, why don't you cast a glance over here For how may years can you possibly dream of America? Oh America... Life is not America And America is another place altogether Everything's in the mind of the person If you'll only want here too can be a dream And you, why don't you cast a glance over here For how may years can you possibly dream of America? Oh America... And you, why don't we live with the little that we have It's not so different in America... Oh America. And you, why don't you cast a glance over here For how may years can you possibly dream of America? Oh America... And you, why don't we live with the little that we have It's not so different in America... Oh America. back to menu |
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Song Title: My Old Friends ("Ha'Khaverim Ha'Yeshanim Sheli") Musician: Ivri Lider Year Released: 1999 Credits: lyrics and music by Ivri Lider Website: www.ivrilider.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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My old friends, they're all the same One became a big hero and the other got wiped out A few others traveled far in order to return The tenth one who I once left far behind My old friends in the black book Everyone who I now love Everyone I will remember And for whom it interests, we'll smoke and talk About sport and art until the night will end Until the night ends, lines and lines of people Pass through my dreams Until the night ends I'll still manage to speak About every subject in the world If G-d exists or doesn't exist If there's a reason for disappointments Whole lives in bags of plastic And they pull at me by the edge of my shirt My old friends have an unusual taste He who was furthest away says he thinks about me a lot And he who loved to drink remained with the habit To a world of grownups he tries to get accustomed He who loved to know, still he asks questions And he who thought things were good for him is now praying And even I remained almost the same way Threatening to go but in the end I remain Until the night ends, lines and lines of people Pass through my dreams Until the night ends I'll still manage to speak About every subject in the world If G-d exists or doesn't exist If there's a reason for disappointments Whole lives in bags of plastic And they pull at me by the edge of my shirt Whole lives in bags of plastic Arguing if this happened or didn't happen My old friends are not all the same One became a big hero and the other got wiped out And a few others traveled far in order to return This love which I once left behind back to menu |
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Song Title: Preelie ("Preelie") Musician: Shotei Ha'Nevuah ("Fools of the Prophecy") Year Released: 2000 Credits: lyrics by Gil'ad Vitel; music by Gil'ad Vitel Website: www.foools.com Comments: Sung/written in a stream of conscience style; parts in italics are supposed to be the "voices" in the singer's head. Hear the song! |
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I want a little bit of "my fruit" ['Preelie' in Hebrew; the closest I can translate it is "my fruit", otherwise the word has no meaning in Hebrew] And I want also cherry that lights up eyes A flower when I enter the garden Yes, again I'm speaking only with myself And I have no idea what he Is hiding for me in my debt On the side of common sense There are a lot of things to sleep about What a drunk he is That guy who is sitting now at the head Decides now to conquer This moment, on the road the people feel the morning which has broken A gift from G-d To dance, to jump What a sparkle Singing songs from inside the house Moving the sofas To wander around, to shout... yes All this is a surprise In life there are gifts Because it's not in feelings and not in logic Eretz Israel these days is in craziness "The Enemy Will Attack Tomorrow" Was written there in the paper So give me a little honey and milk so we can mix Arab Palestinian - Arab Palestinian, Jewish Argentinian It doesn't matter, everyone's a human being Everyone's here No one will leave here No one will leave No one will leave here So start to love Say, is it fun to laugh? We're a generation of love And not of wars Tell me "yes" to pleasant speech and yes to smiles Five thousand years we're waiting To dance, to jump What a sparkle Singing songs from inside the house Moving the sofas To wander around, to shout... yes All this is a surprise In life there are gifts Because it's not in feelings and not in logic Eretz Israel these days is in craziness "The Enemy Will Attack Tomorrow" Was written there in the paper So give me a little honey and milk so we can mix Arab Palestinian - Arab Palestinian, Jewish Argentinian It doesn't matter, everyone's a human being It's because of this - everyone's here No one will leave here No one will leave No one will leave here So start to love No one will leave here No one will leave No one will leave here So start from up close back to menu |
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Song Title: The Doll House ("Beit Ha'Bubot") Musician: Beit Ha'Bubot (The Doll House / House of Dolls) Video: someone's interpretation of the song into video Year Released: 2004 Credits: lyrics by Amir Atias and Itay Shiff; music by Amir Atias Website: www.beit-habubot.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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And again I encounter a moment of sadness In a dark corner stands the boundary I think about things in a new rhythm I run thoughts, I try on a sheet And again I encounter a moment of loneliness I feel with all my might what innocence is Think about Him up there who knows things And His son all the time plays with the strings So how is it in the end that we all meet up With the same problems and the same emotions In the little doll house of G-d's And how I'm thrown strongly between the walls Fall into myself, now I can't see Lose the sensation, do you now feel What it means to be alone, to be alone And so how is it in the end that we all meet up With the same problems and the same emotions In the little doll house of G-d's And how I'm slammed with force on the bed The light turns black, everything here has changed I'm sick of shouting into blocked ears Again I can't see And so how is it in the end that we all meet up With the same problems and the same emotions In the little doll house of G-d's back to menu |
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Song Title: Here Again (Part B) ("Shoov Kan - Khelek Bet") Musician: Shabak Samekh Year Released: 2000 Credits: lyrics and music by Shabak Samekh Website: Shabak @ Mooma Comments: The band formerly headed by Mookie, who features on this page above; one of the first groups to introduce the concept of "Israeli hip-hop" (or what we call Zionist hip-hop) - snarling, indulgent, garrish and funny, but not violent. The band's name, Shabak Samekh - ùá''÷ ñ - sounds similar to the State's secret service but it is actually an acronym of partially made-up words "Shufim Bufim Bits and Bravos". Hear the song! |
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Blood and fire and smoked dates Blood and fire and smoked dates Blood and fire and smoked dates Blood and fire and smoked dates I return from a dark country in a time machine Cross outer space in a hurricane I bring the Shabak, we're here Ask yourself if you're ready King of the empire like Gengis Khan Rule over the expanse like Zinedin Zidane Take all the girls, gather up all the cash Run away from the law like Jean Valjean [Wearing] Beads to no end cause I'm a master craftsman All day drunk so I'm a pothead bringing the revolution, I'm on a cloud Girls, twist your tushies Still here We're here again We're here again We're here again From three came out one, From three came out one, From three came out one, And the one that came out is me There's no one like me, the orange knight Returning to the stages to save the crowds From freezing depression in a period of craziness Bringing to parades a little happiness and joy I blow away those who hold the microphone ["blow away" - the expression in Hebrew here is to "give high-schooling to"] Return to the kindergarden the whole "carton-culture" [possibly a reference to exploitation of workers] Cook your brains like a cellphone - Ericsson - Even Simon Le Bon doesn't have this much passion I'm the voice from outer space, come to the middle east A super-star who brings honor and vision If I was in Japan I'd be a Shogun The Shabak is stronger than Alexander the Great I'm here in Zion on the way to rulership I play in the country like Megatron in mega-disaster Gamble on my last chip And laugh all the way to first place - because I'm here again! Still here We're here again We're here again We're here again Everyone talks about the good old days With expanses and countryside, with chicken-coops and horses, yes Everyone talks about the good old days When cash would grow on the trees They talk About records and dance halls They talk About love, clean air and G-d They talk About politicians they don't count on They talk and talk and talk and talk After they talk about the good old days They talk about me 'cause they've run out of subjects A storm in the garden of eden, hell on the streets Certain that when we rule we'll bring better days Still here We're here again We're here again We're here again back to menu |
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Song Title: Going Wild in the Countryside ("Mishtolelim Ba'Kfar") Musician: Shotei Ha'Nevuah ("Fools of the Prophecy") Year Released: 2000 Credits: lyrics and music by Ro'i Levy Website: www.foools.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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It's actually fun for me when you're around But hard to say that love Is what I have inside my heart I'm after all just a hungry wolf You're not the first and not the third But we'll start almost from the beginning Now it's just me and you So come and let's undress little by little I feel... I feel... I feel you tremble from desire In the long breaks between thrust and thrust Yes, you and mother nature are united now In a moment of truth, in a supreme act Wave after wave wash the whole body Fireworks explode inside your head Deep within the rhythm, aware of every nerve I hope that this for ever lasts Going wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Going-wild-in-the-countryside You have fruits which entice more than pineapples and coconuts A wonderful opening like the blossom of a lotus Froth on the seas, a rainbow in the cloud, how good this is now To draw near the issue All the night me and you go wild in the countryside All the night me and you go wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Going wild in the countryside Going-wild-in-the-countryside Come let's sit in a fig all night Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going wild in the countryside Me and you, all night long Going-wild-in-the-countryside So he told me "Come here" and he gave me a kiss - it was sweet He embraced me standing and the bed was so soft And in the darkness he took me to a new land And in the morning I sand and was still in the feeling of a dream Simply a dream, a dream in broad daylight I'm not ashamed, I feel like a woman I'm his, for him and it's good for me because of him ...and it's good for me because of him ...and it's good for me because of him Come and sit here, come Come and sit here, come Come and sit here, come All night long back to menu |
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Song Title: Better Nothing Than Almost ("Yoter Tov Klum Me'Kimat") Musician: Ivri Lider Video: From a live performance in Caduri, circa. 2006 Year Released: 1999 Credits: lyrics and music by Ivri Lider Website: www.ivrilider.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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If it's not her than better it be no one Better nothing than almost An English newspaper and cheap perfume In the middle of the night climbs onto an airplane Which will take you first class to Germany There's wine and food and a video movie Another hour or two and you return home If it's not her than better it be no one Better nothing than almost Nice clothes in luxury shops All the time together and nothing happened In the middle of the night climbs onto an airplane Which will take you first class to Germany There's wine and food and a video movie Another hour or two and you return home And what a lovely day there is beyond the rainbow From what exactly are you so groggy A fashion magazine and everything is the same routine A few more hours and you return home If it's not her than better it be no one Better nothing than almost back to menu |
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Song Title: Iris Fields ("Sadot Shel Irusim") Musician: Yehuda Sa'ado Video: Rebroadcast of the competition finals on Channel 2 with the lyrics displayed during the performance Year Released: (1986) 2005 Credits: lyrics and music by Shlomo Artzi Website: Yehuda Saado @ MySpace.com and www.shlomoartzi.com Comments: A wonderful (trunctated) cover of a Shlomo Artzi song submitted and performed for the 3rd season of Israel's American Idol-styled program, "Kokhav Nolad" ("A Star is Born"), which it won. It was performed by a religious singer, Yehuda Sa'ado, in a style defined locally here as "Mediterranean" ("Yam Tikhoni") - an Israeli blend of Arab/Middle Eastern tones with Mediterranean vocals. The song comes from Artzi's Lebanon war-influenced melancholy "Restless Night" album from 1986 and a forerunner to his landmark "Heat of July-August" record from 1987-88 - and for this public performance it seems certain lines with social critiques were removed. The lead guitarist on this piece is Ilai Botner, a rising star in his own right in the contemporary Israeli music scene. Hear the song! |
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In an astounded stadium and short of space With all the people I sit Waiting for the concert to begin The band is already prepared There, there were buildings, dispersed as islands and islands There, there was my childhood and all my life I am a loaded gun of yearnings And it comes back to me, you understand Returns to me in the room Every song is an unavoidable memory In an astounded stadium and short of space With all the people I sit Waiting for the concert to begin The band is already prepared The finger on the trigger Every song is an unavoidable memory Back then I didn't have a large car Back then I didn't know what lay by the margins Of the only road beside which were concealed secrets, fields [a play on words in Hebrew] of irises Back then I didn't have a large car Back then I didn't know what lay by the margins Of the only road beside which were concealed secrets, fields... Back then I didn't have a large car Back then I didn't know what lay by the margins Of the only road beside which were concealed secrets, fields of irises This is not the same country Already not the same room Every song is an unavoidable memory back to menu |
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Song Title: How 'Yossi' [live] ("Kama Yossi") Musician: Berry Sakharof Video: Original music video. Also: Live performance aired on Israeli educational channel 8. Year Released: (1993) 2003 Credits: lyrics by Berry Sakharof; music by Berry Sakharof and Ra Mokhiakh Website: www.berry.co.il Comments: Mima.co.il sheds some light on an otherwise odd song: the lyrics describe Berry's childhood in the city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv (i.e. the "Big City" mentioned in the song). Sakharof grew up in the neighborhood of Ramat Yosef, named after Yosef Shprintzak, the first Speaker of the Israeli Parliament ("Knesset"); the neighborhood was also known for the high number of children named "Yossi". The reference to "Shlomo's white guitar" is to Shlomo Mizrachi, a well known Israeli guitarist in the 1960's; "Ahuva" refers to the Israeli singer Ahuva Ozeri. The reference to the "song contest" is of the 1968 competition in which Tom Jones won. "Fanny Hill" is a reference to a childhood pornographic publication which passed through many hands. "A downpour of go-go's, an Arab hole and a Jewish hole" refers to a game of go-go's in which a person has to throw a go-go into a hole and to try to pull out a pair from within it (in an "Arab hole" a player has one go-go, in a "Jewish hole" he has several). Hear the song! |
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That town there, they named after the Speaker of the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] Romanians, Moroccans, Poles mixed together on the [sand] dunes A lot of pickles, a lot of bread with "khalva" At the sparse first national song contest So much sand, how "Yossi" [a play on the Hebrew word "Yofi" for "nice"] It was good, it was "Yossi" At the daily show Tarzan beats Machista And Shlomi has a guitar colored in white And Ahuva gave all she had, all that she had What she had And mom and dad feared that I'd turn out a criminal Fanny Hill from hand to hand to hand to hand A downpour of go-go's, an Arab hole, a Jewish hole And far, far to the north, the real thing In the big city on Fridays and Saturdays, looking for something to do So much sand, how "Yossi" [a play on the Hebrew word "Yofi" for "nice"] It was good, it was "Yossi" back to menu |
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Song Title: Haifa Across the Sea ("Haifa Mul HaYam") Musician: Micha Shitreet (pronounced "Shetreet") Video: Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics by Salman Matzlakha; music by Micha Shitreet and Berry Sakharof Website: Comments: A song about the Arab poet Emil Habibi; Berry Sakharof on guitars. Hear the song! |
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In Haifa, across the sea, smells of salt Arise from the ground And sun which hangs on a tree Which unravels the wind Within a row of trees is immersed a stone They planted men, women and silence Tenants in a building Whose name is Homeland Jews whose voice I didn't hear Arabs whose intentions I didn't know And more such songs which I didn't know To recognize In that moment which became silenced There in Haifa across the sea Everyone was there for him A poet, exiled in the wind, searches for the past In a question blessed with questions Fishes up words from within the sea And again casts towards the waves Which will return, Like the Messiah, To the world A poet returns to a song which he didn't write In the night of captivity, and has not yet returned To the place which he drew as a child in the cloud There in Haifa across the sea At the end of summer which has broken On the head of the tree blooms the moon I return to the silence which I injured with my lips I return to The old words In a page Lumps of earth let to live And a salty path grasp tightly forever the Fishing rod of the fisherman Little words grew silent to rest And a song was silenced there in Haifa, across the sea And a song was silenced there in Haifa, across the sea back to menu |
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Song Title: Momentum ("Tnufa") Musician: Boaz Banai Video: original music video; Boaz always wanted to play football but his parents disapproved Year Released: 2007 Credits: lyrics and music by Boaz Banai Website: Boaz Banai on Myspace and on Facebook Comments: Hear the song! |
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I feel that this is the time Now or forever What's the point of waiting? Something is stopping the momentum Perhaps it's just a phase That you just need to get through? I have to get out to the street Fresh air is good for me To feel the movement I'm in a thousand pieces Still eating sweets At night in bed It always happens when I'm too busy in something else The body slowly falls apart And the head works too quickly My head works quickly I feel that this is the time Now or forever I need something to give me a spiritual elevation Who is stopping the momentum Perhaps it's just a phase From here it can only get better It always happens when I'm too busy in something else The body slowly shrinks And the head works too quickly My head works quickly [said to a female]: Only you know what's good for me If only I could speak Instead of shouting or dispersing Words with no explanation What would I then say Instead of shouting like a retard Na na na na... What would I then say If only I could speak Instead of shouting or dispersing Na na na na... back to menu |
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Song Title: Dog Competition ("Takharut Klavim") Musician: Eviatar Banai Video: original music video pulled from Channel Musika 24; there are probably several personalities and band members (his cousin, Ehud Banai's band) I'm supposed to recognize in the video but can only identify Eviatar's sister, the actress Orna Banai, leaving the restaurant/sitting in the taxi Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics by Eviatar Banai and Amir Lev / music by Eviatar Banai and Amir Tzoref Website: www.eviatarbanai.co.il Comments: Hear the song! |
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A dog competition Running in a circle Eyes that are hungry Speech with hints In lovely shoes I run barefoot Deep dreams I arrive first I drive in a taxi, don't remember the address So much time in the darkness The despair, the flesh, the egotism Big enemies which I cultivated To light the sun with laughter and tears and music I'm already coming, I'm already there The banister is wet The stairs are high Quiet whispers on the neck I hear trumpets at night in bed I direct the traffic Without knowing to where I drive in a taxi, don't remember the address So much time in the darkness The despair, the flesh, the egotism Big enemies which I cultivated To light the sun with laughter and tears and music I'm already coming, I'm already there I drive in a taxi, don't remember the address So much time in the darkness The despair, the flesh, the egotism Big enemies which I cultivated To light the sun with laughter and tears and music I'm already coming, I'm already there I'm already coming, I'm already there To light the sun with laughter and tears and music I'm already coming, I'm already there back to menu |
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Song Title: 'Sigapo' ("Sigapo") Musician: Beit Ha'Bubot (The Doll House / House of Dolls) Video: original music video Year Released: 2004 Credits: lyrics and music by Amir Atias Website: www.beit-habubot.com Comments: According to mima.co.il, the song is named after a friend (Sigalit) of the band's lead singer and whose nickname was 'Siga'; when she returned to Israel from abroad her friends would say that 'Siga is here' (in Hebrew "Siga po"), and that's how the song got its name. Hear the song! |
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And the moon was full all night long And it leaves me up Write on all four walls in a moment And it's not enough for her A wave of hallucinations in nature Loses reality in for a moment How in the end she always returns to herself And it's not enough for her Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light raises an old memory Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light rises and shows the way Sigapo it's hot and it hurts Not everything you know It's the same light that always accompanied you And it's not enough for her Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light raises an old memory Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light rises and shows the way She returned from there in order to complete her circle for herself To the spring came a young goat, a young goat came With the logic of a legend she feels like a young girl In a great field of understanding, which is pure Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light raises an old memory Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light rises and shows the way Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break Another light raises an old memory Suddenly when it seems that the dawn won't ever break... Another light rises and shows the way... back to menu |
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Song Title: End of Summer ("Sof HaKaitz") Musician: Micha Shitreet and Berry Sakharof Video: Year Released: 2002 Credits: lyrics and music by Berry Sakharof Website: www.berry.co.il Comments: title track to the Israeli film "Wisdom of the Bagel" ('Khokhmat HaBeigale'). Hear the song! |
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Perhaps you'll come perhaps you'll come now This is the time to fall in love Perhaps you'll come Perhaps you'll come to me now This is the time to fall in love I sit across a window that's open Before a wall, without strength End of the summer And the wind doesn't blow The heart goes out to you Still not too late Perhaps you'll come Because it is you I love Perhaps you'll come Perhaps you'll come now This is the time to fall in love Perhaps you'll come Perhaps you'll come to me now This is the time to fall in love back to menu |
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Song Title: A Person Accumulates Memories ("Adam Tzover Zikhronot") Musician: Avraham Tal Video: Original music video Year Released: 2008 Credits: lyrics by Yona Wallach; music by Shimon Gelbetz Website: Avraham Tal @ Myspace Comments: A cover of a song originally performed by Dorit Reuveni. Revised and performed by the former leader of "Fools of the Prophecy" ("Shotey HaNevuah"), which disbanded in 2007. Hear the song! |
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A person accumulates memories like ants In the summer months In the summer months like grasshoppers In summertime And so it is that a person sings And in the winter the ants congregate Swaying with their belongings and finish slowly The belongings and the winter they finish Slowly, slowly And the grasshopper in winter sings for openings To taste from the memories of the season The beloved season which is in his songs Which avoided him A person accumulates memories like ants In the summer months In the summer months like grasshoppers In summertime And so it is that a person sings back to menu |
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Song Title: The Remains of Life ("Shaariyot Shet HaChaim") Musician: The Idan Raichel Project Video: Original music video Year Released: 2008 Credits: lyrics and music by Idan Raichel Website: www.idanraichelproject.com and Idan Raichel @ MySpace Comments: Hear the song! |
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What does time signal to me This is all just the remains of life And to live for the moment To begin picking up the pieces Perhaps I'll go out more I'll start moving more quickly To begin getting sorted out And to make a little noise Perhaps a different place A more intense place To begin messing things up a bit And to fix things again What does time signal to me This is all just the remains of life And to live for the moment To begin picking up the pieces Perhaps I'll go out more I'll start moving more quickly To begin getting sorted out And to make a little noise Perhaps a different place A more intense place To begin messing things up a bit And to fix things again Perhaps I'll go out more I'll start moving more quickly To begin getting sorted out And to make a little noise Perhaps a different place A more intense place To begin messing things up a bit And to fix things again back to menu |
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Song Title: The Dreams of Others ("Ha Khalomot Shel Akherim") Musician: The Idan Raichel Project Video: Original music video Year Released: 2008 Credits: lyrics and music by Idan Raichel Website: www.idanraichelproject.com and Idan Raichel @ MySpace Comments: Hear the song! |
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For years everyone's been running away For years everyone's been returning Chasing after the sun Prisoners within circles Everyone's entangled So what are you still dreaming about For years they've been concealing For years everyone's known A stone rolls over In the nights and in the days Everyone's talking already Why are you still staying It's better to run to the fire To demand Not to ask What are you afraid of There's nothing to think about when he says There's no better time [to a female:] Bring the day For years they've been asking For years not listening Keeping it all in their stomachs It gets accumulated and it gets pent up And in the end it ends everything [to a female:] What are you talking about It's better to run to the fire To demand Not to ask What are you afraid of There's nothing to think about when he says There's no better time [to a female:] Bring the day It turns out that you always keep silent But inside it rages and everything burns All the words which disappeared You'll find them all in the dreams of others It turns out that you always keep silent But inside it rages and everything burns All the words which disappeared You'll find them all in the dreams of others For years they've been opening And remaining closed Clinging to the wind Every disaster chases after another person This one comes That one speaks Returning to the open wound It's better to run to the fire To demand Not to ask What are you afraid of There's nothing to think about when he says There's no better time [to a female:] Bring the day It turns out that you always keep silent But inside it rages and everything burns All the words which disappeared You'll find them all in the dreams of others It turns out that you always keep silent But inside it rages and everything burns All the words which disappeared You'll find them all in the dreams of others For years everyone's been running away For years everyone's been returning Chasing after the sun back to menu |
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Song Title: With My Eyes Shut (in Creole: "Ôdjus Fitxadu") Musician: The Idan Raichel Project featuring Mayra Andrade Video: Original music video Year Released: 2008 Credits: lyrics and music by Idan Raichel Website: www.idanraichelproject.com and Idan Raichel @ MySpace; Mayra Andrade @ MySpace Comments: Mayra Andrade is a Cuban born singer raised in Cape Verde and sings in Creole. The translated lyrics below were cribbed from a poster on YouTube as I couldn't make a translation. Hear the song! |
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When I looked at the sky today All I could see were stars Telling me that you are gone forever, my love Do beseech Gods angels To come and get this woman Who refuses to go on living without your love Your love Sovereign queen over gloom I seek a way out Bearing the sword and the power of longing and pain With my soul free in time I vow to live with my eyes shut And thus keep you with me, With me... back to menu |
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Song Title: Everything Passes ("HaKol Over") Musician: The Idan Raichel Project Year Released: 2008 Credits: lyrics and music by Idan Raichel Website: www.idanraichelproject.com and Idan Raichel @ Myspace Comments: Hear the song! |
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And I was already quite far from you And there weren't any words left for us to speak And a wind swept away a lonely sail In the end it made him lonlier still From every dream and rustle awakens Everything passes Everything that once was and is now forgotten Now he no longer returns It's just all creased, which is engraved into the skin Which now burns even more Because there is no way back And everything passes As long as days and nights pass him by And as long as there is nothing new under the sun ["on the surface of the land"] It's good that we've stayed together And it's good that we have some to tell it to In spite of everything there's no way back And everything passes Every wound which healed and opened again Now stings more It heals and renews itself And again everything bursts forth and gets more intense It no longer breaks and becomes a crisis And everything passes And do you remember how we once were Against the wind and her rising strength And after all the bad years Returned many more good years Our time runs forward always And doesn't stop back to menu |
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Song Title: I Avoid You ("Nimna Mimech") Musician: Micha Shitrit Year Released: 2001 Credits: lyrics and music by Micha Shitrit Website: Micha Shitrit @ Facebook Video: static picture with music Comments: Hear the song! |
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I avoid you and go to the sea At the depths of my pride, empty like seashell Not broken on a rock Not sprayed out like water I walk heavily, pressing on the sand I spit against the wind and catch it in my face Like every time that I bring out something from within I avoid you, I avoid you I walk heavily, leaving everything back to menu |
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Song Title: Strengthened Forever ("Mekhuzakim Le Olam") Musician: Avraham Tal Video: Original music video ("home made", with short giving credits) Year Released: 2010 Credits: lyrics and music by Avraham Tal Website: avrahamtal.co.il and Avraham Tal @ Myspace Comments: Tal was voted "artist of the year 2010" Hear the song! |
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The words are soothing And the emotion is still blocked Every word is in its place And the heart remains sealed And the days are so nice The nights of this winter Remind me of magical days Two minutes are enough Give me your hand and we'll march out of here Even in the body, even in the heart You'll still let me touch the pain And the days are so nice The nights of this winter Remind me of magical days Don't worry for me I'm [still] here I see that in life The wheels turn everyone The wars, the reversals In the end we come out strengthened forever The times aren't easy I disappear between the shadows Wake up in panic And escape from the oblivion And the days are so nice The nights of this winter Remind me of magical days Don't worry for me I'm [still] here I see that in life The wheels turn everyone The wars, the reversals In the end we come out strengthened forever back to menu |
Contemporary Female (the list is sortable by clicking on the column names)
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Song Title: Kiss Me ("Nashki Oti") Musician: Sivan Shavit Year Released: 1996 Credits: lyrics by Sivan Shavit; music by Sivan Shavit and Amir Tzoref Website: www.sivanshavit.com and Sivan Shavit @ myspace.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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We're both traveling in the car I don't know where we'll get to When the wheel is in your hands You always have to surprise I can't stop looking at your face in the mirror And you feel every move Send a caress to my lips We're both traveling in the car You tell me the way will be long And that I can fall asleep Afterwards tell me everything that happened I don't sleep I count stars through the holes in the blanket And you, with a cigarette in your mouth, Sing to me a love song with the radio [said to a female]: "Kiss me strongly Kiss me until it hurts And the sun won't set You're the one and only My wonderful love And I love you" We're both traveling in the car If only we could drive forever You think that I've already fallen sleep and am not listening How you, with a cigarette in your mouth, Sing to me a love song with the radio back to menu |
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Song Title: (Through) Foreign Eyes ("Einayim Zarot") Musician: Rona Kenan (or Keinan) Video: live performance of the "Israeli Song Festival" on Channel 2 in 2006 - an excellent performance Year Released: 2007 Credits: lyrics and music by Rona Kenan Website: www.ronakenan.com and Rona Kenan @ myspace.com Comments: Rona is the daughter of a well known Israeli writer and journalist, Amos Keinan (whose credits include the lyrics for "Why Didn't You Tell Me" on this page). She wrote her first song at the age of 11, spent seven years preparing her first album and just three days writing and three days recording her second, from where this song is taken. Her songs also include pieces written and sung in English. Produced by Yizhar Ashdot, whose music I also hope to have here soon. Hear the song! |
![Rona Kenan album: [Through] Foreign Eyes (Einayim Zarot), 2007](rona-kenan-foreign-eyes-album.jpg "Rona Kenan album: [Through] Foreign Eyes (Einayim Zarot), 2007") |
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Darkness I didn't see anything Foreign eyes processed information I tried to turn my skin over But the skin inside is too similar to mine I tried to push back the years Which stand between us Without understanding That there is no weapon in the world Which by virtue of my love will defeat time I will not stop wanting I will not stop wanting I will not give in to this idea That it's not possible, and it's impossible because it's not possible It's a matter of survival Even if you [said to a female] tell me enough already, it's over I have no choice but to want the possible Days Days into nights A hug which never ends And suddenly in a moment it's over And when this emptiness reveals its face It seems that all I wanted Will never come (but) I will not stop wanting I will not stop wanting I will not give in to this idea That it's not possible, and it's impossible because it's not possible It's a matter of survival Even if you [said to a female] tell me enough already, it's over I have no choice but to want the possible Silence Silence in the living room Silence in the kitchen Silence also on the phone All I wanted was to sleep But the frightening noise penetrated into my dream And finally, the end of the story I sign without desire on the release form I will not stop wanting I will not stop wanting I will not give in to this idea That it's not possible, and it's impossible because it's not possible It's a matter of survival Even if you [said to a female] tell me enough already, it's over I have no choice but to want the possible back to menu |
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Song Title: Angels (Incitement) ("Malakhim") Musician: Metropolin (featuring Efrat Gosh) Video: not the actual video but an interesting interweave of a nature documentary with the song. Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics by Ofer Meiri; music by Ofer Meiri and Barak Gabizon Website: www.metropolin.net and Metropolin @ myspace.com Comments: Metropolin is a music project founded by Ofer Meiri, whose tracks feature different vocalists, and has released two albums to date. Efrat Gosh (pronounced "Gosch") is a successful singer in her own right now with two albums released. Hear the song! |
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[female:] There are no angels at all in the sky I'm here with just in the meantime To hold the head above the water To see everything and close the eyes [male:] How much concern and how much danger you bring And how much love How pretty you are and how much passion you reveal And what an incitement it is [female:] There are no angels at all in the sky I'm here with just in the meantime To hold the head above the water To see everything and close the eyes There are no such people with wings [male:] How much concern and how much danger you bring And how much love How pretty you are and how much passion you reveal And what an incitement it is And what a disappointment it is And what a disappointment it is There are no angels at all in the sky back to menu |
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Song Title: Sleeping Without Dreaming ("Lishon Bli Lakhlom") Musician: Metropolin (featuring Dana Berger) Video: Original music video. Year Released: 2005 Credits: lyrics by Ofer Meiri; music by Ofer Meiri and Barak Gabizon Website: www.metropolin.net and Metropolin @ myspace.com Comments: Metropolin is a music project founded by Ofer Meiri, whose tracks feature different vocalists, and has released two albums to date. Dana Berger is a successful singer in her own right, formerly with a band called "Balagan", then solo and on collaboration with Metropolin. This piece may have to do with the experience of foreign workers in Israel, among whom there are many Philippinos. Hear the song! |
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To sleep without dreaming, to sleep without knowing To lie without thinking, to love without touching Going to have a conversation without hearing To whisper from afar, to whisper and run away Airplanes fly low above Taxis return at night From north to south And I'm always below Below To sleep without dreaming, to sleep without knowing To lie without thinking, to love without touching Airplanes fly low above Taxis return at night From north to south And I'm always below Below [A Philippina speaks of working in the central bus station] [Another Philippina compares the winter and summer in Israel to that in the Philippines] To sleep without dreaming, to sleep without knowing To sleep without dreaming To sleep without dreaming To sleep without dreaming To sleep without dreaming back to menu |
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Song Title: Take Me There ("Kakh Oti LeSham") Musician: Sharon Khaziz Video: Original music video. Year Released: 1994 Credits: lyrics by Meir Goldberg and Shai Lahav; music by Shai Lahav Website: www.sharonhaziz.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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Sometimes I think you're crazy Looking at the moon Like an enchanted cat Drumming on a garbage can Breathing the sea Do you know what Take me there You came from a dream Time stopped, the clock hands moved I don't have much now The greatest love Is all I'll be able to give When I wake up The dream doesn't go to sleep It has a smell, it has a taste of the sea Perhaps one day you'll tell me what you dreamt about And perhaps You'll take me there You came from a dream Time stopped, the clock hands moved I don't have much now The greatest love Is all I'll be able to give back to menu |
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Song Title: She Doesn't Say Anything ("Hee Lo Omeret Klum") Musician: Metropolin (featuring Sharona Nastovich) Video: Original music video pulled off Israeli music station Channel 24. Year Released: 1997 Credits: lyrics by Ofer Meiri and Erez Berzolik; music by Ofer Meiri Website: www.metropolin.net and Metropolin @ myspace.com. Sites for Sharona Nastovich: www.sharona-nastovich.co.il and Sharona Nastovich @ myspace.com. Comments: Hear the song! |
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She doesn't say anything Doesn't tell anything Just sometimes at night, she cries a little But she doesn't say anything We spoke all day long We told her everything And she's closed up in a room, silent And doesn't say anything And all day long, all day long People congregate, ask, speak a lot And all day long, all day long They try stories and players, they try everything But she doesn't hear anything Perhaps she doesn't know anything And even when they get close and... whisper to her It doesn't do anything to her [said to a male]: We wanted you to remember That there is a reason to return And she's alone in a room, lying down And doesn't say anything And all day long, all day long People congregate, ask, speak a lot And all day long, all day long They try stories and players, they try everything back to menu |
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Song Title: They'll Always Wait for You ("Tamid Yekhaku Lekha") Musician: Leah Shabat Year Released: 1997 Credits: lyrics and music by Leah Shabat Website: www.leahshabat.com Comments: Hear the song! |
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Oh, my boy the time has passed You left to search far from here And I've waited for you Oh, my boy in this world A bird-man like everyone Searching for the horizon Every plane that flies in the skies Every star that lights the eyes Reminds me of you A wagtail [a bird] before the rain Cricket chirps at evening-time Will always wait for you Oh, my boy when it's quiet I sit on the porch to play [an instrument] Songs of longing Oh, my boy make an effort To get here fast That's what I ask quietly Every plane that flies in the skies Every star that lights the eyes Reminds me of you A wagtail [a bird] before the rain Cricket chirps at evening-time Will always wait for you back to menu |
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Song Title: If They Will be Locked [remix] ("Im Ninalu") Musician: Ofra Haza Video: Original music video of the remix and the original 1978 recording Year Released: (1978) 1988 Credits: words by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi (circa. 17th Century) Website: www.ofra.haza.co.il and Ofra Haza @ Myspace Comments: The words of the song come from a poem written by the Yemenite Rabbi, Shalom Shabazi, in the 1600's; the poem is much longer than the opening lines translated below, but the remix of the song is mostly in English and Yemenite, hence a mercifully short translation/butchering of the original. Hear the song! |
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[Even] if the doors of the charitable will be locked The doors of heaven will never be closed A living G-d rises above cherubs Everyone in His spirit will rise A living G-d back to menu |
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Song Title: To See the Light ("Lirot Et Ha Or") Musician: Efrat Gosh Video: Original music video. Year Released: 2007 Credits: lyrics by Barak Feldman; music by Assaf Amdursky Website: Efrat Gosh on MySpace and Wikipedia Comments: Hear the song! |
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Because I saw my path disappear In a tangled forest Between thickets of walls And in the bleeding ground My legs got embedded And struck root And for a moment I could hear Leaves teaching their poetry And I wanted to rise up high To blossom with them I became familiar with the drops of the rain Pools inside me Falling beneath me and the wind is cold and desperate it froze me it burdened me And for a moment I could touch The edge of the gray pain And I wanted to rise up high To see the light To see the light They say There are blue skies Above us Full of light. Perhaps one day I too will be able to see to see And I fell to the ground quietly I closed my eyes I sealed my heart And felt how I'm breaking apart From all my pains From all my loneliness And for a moment I could run away Like a feather on the wing of a bird And I managed to rise up high To see the light To see the light And for a moment I could run away Like a feather on the wing of a bird And I managed to rise up high To see the light To see the light To see the light To see the light back to menu |
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Song Title: Boxing Match ("Krav Egroof") Musician: Efrat Gosh Video: Original music video. Year Released: 2007 Credits: lyrics and music by Efrat Gosh Website: Efrat Gosh on MySpace and Wikipedia Comments: Hear the song! |
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(sung to a female) First of all, defend the body So that no one from outside can enter you The hands hold close to the face This is the first place, they see what happens to you Cover well every wound which is exposed There he will try to strike Balance So you don't fall into madness Your body can handle it, a boxing match With all your strength... Laugh, roar, hit Wound, tear out, punch So that you don't be silent ever again Fight, strike, shout Drive them crazy, demand, conquer So that you don't be ashamed ever again Stand straight, eyes open You can hold on for at least three more rounds Don't surrender, dammit Now, without waiting, boxing match With all your strength... Laugh, roar, hit Wound, tear out, punch So that you don't be silent ever again Fight, strike, shout Drive them crazy, demand, conquer So that you don't be ashamed ever again With all your strength... Laugh, roar, hit Wound, tear out, punch So that you don't be silent ever again Fight, strike, shout Drive them crazy, demand, conquer So that you don't be ashamed ever again First of all, defend the body back to menu |
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Song Title: Just Like it Was ("Kmo Sheh Ze Haya") Musician: Efrat Gosh Video: Original music video. Year Released: 2007 Credits: lyrics by Barak Feldman; music by Yoni Bloch Website: Efrat Gosh on MySpace and Wikipedia Comments: Oh, nothing... Hear the song! |
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Just like it was, that's how it will be Without us interfering, without us changing things You weren't here I didn't speak over there Just like it was That way it's perfect Sit and smile Get enthusiastic say how good things are now how good things are forever. Let's sleep together now Let's wake up tomorrow Just like it was Bingo the same thing Nothing affects me Nothing happens to me Nothing passes me Ahhh... Sun overhead Peace and quiet Love and warmth Heat and love You don't have to think Beyond... Sun overhead Peace and quiet Love and warmth Heat and love Without saying hello Without giving a hug Just like it was Exactly like that Just like it was, that's how it will remain I don't want less And I don't want more Without saying hello Without giving a hug Just like it was Exactly like that So we don't need to sit And we don't need conversation And without being sad Without saying sorry Not into my eyes Not with all the heart Without "tomorrow perhaps" Without "I love..." Nothing affects me Nothing happens to me Nothing passes me Ahhh... Sun overhead Peace and quiet Love and warmth Heat and love You don't have to think Beyond... Sun overhead Peace and quiet Love and warmth Heat and love Without saying hello Without giving a hug Just like it was Exactly like that Sun overhead Peace and quiet Love and warmth Heat and love You don't have to think Beyond... Sun overhead Peace and quiet Love and warmth Heat and love Without saying hello Without giving a hug Just like it was Exactly like that back to menu |
Contemporary Religious & Spiritual Music (the list is sortable by clicking on the column names)
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Song Title: What's the Matter Lonely One ("Ma Lakh Yekhida") Musician: Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Year Released: 2009 Credits: words by Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gabirol; music by Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Website: www.berry.co.il and Rae Mochiach @ facebook Video: from a live performance at the Barby club (Tel Aviv), 2010 and static picture with music Comments: Hear the song! |
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What's the matter, lonely one, will you sit silently like a king in captivity Wings of joy will you gather and a wing of sorrow will you haul? How much will your heart grieve, how many tears will you draw? You've been infected by such sorrow until you quarry a grave into it Be silent, my lonely one, to G-d, be silent and don't become sad Stand up and look beyond until you oversee all and stand in awe of your inhabitants Close your doors for your sake, until the anger inside you passes It will ease on your eyes greatly, if you thirst yourself [eg. fast until you thirt] or if you hunger yourself Your rewards will grow greatly and at the end of your life you will be pleasured Deprive yourself from behind the world and don't interfere! back to menu |
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Song Title: And So It Became Nothing ("Uvchen Haya Le Ein") Musician: Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Year Released: 2009 Credits: words by Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gabirol; music by Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Website: www.berry.co.il and Rae Mochiach @ facebook Video: live performance, 2010 Comments: Hear the song! |
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Not a palace and not a capital Not a [smooth] stone and not a home Not a hall and not hooks Not a sacrifice [of an animal] and not the best portions Not [Jewish ritual] immersion and not [spiritual] direction Not ransom and not to confess Not an altar and not [ritual] pouring out of waters Not fine flour and not principles Not an [Jewish ritual] altar curtain and not capers Not incense and not floor tiles Not a pouring [of water] and not a column of dust Not eight [of something masculine] and not for glory Not desert and not the exhaustion [of resource] Not hairy and not Azazel [a play on words for "scapegoat"; "Azazel" was the cliff from which a scapegoat was sent to its death on Judgement Day] back to menu |
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Song Title: And an Empty Heart ("Ve Lev Navov") Musician: Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Year Released: 2009 Credits: words by Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gabirol; music by Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Website: www.berry.co.il and Rae Mochiach @ facebook Video: static picture with music Comments: Hear the song! |
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And an empty heart and blocked-up wisdom And a body which appears [looks] - and a soul which disappears And a country - whose supporters will find in her only bad And no joy to any man on her land And a slave who today will kill his masters And a female slave who will torment queen and her mother And a son who will rise against his father and his mother And too a daughter against her father and her mother My friend, my eyes have seen the world Where the good in my eyes is all just commotion The days of mankind's lives will bear labors And will bear at its end pieces and lies And the land will return to the land And will rise the soul to the soul back to menu |