Matisyahu Album

(vocoder)
Dream awake, dream away
get up and get up and go ahh)

Dream awake, make no mistake
Strive to be alive most everyday
You can listen stereo or monotone
Mega phone, mellow drone DJ with delay
Relay super surfer high stereo sound

Radio station super space nation fight the foe
This one's about to blow up
I'm two flues over the CooCoo's nest and won't rest
Bless up with no vest with a shield to protect

Smash lies,
(wake up), stand up and jump off to this
yeah wake up, stand up and jump off to this

wake up, stand up and jump off to this
Some piece of mind from the daily grind

Smash lies,
(wake up), stand up and jump off to this
yeah wake up, stand up and jump off to this
wake up, stand up and jump off to this

Dream awake, dream awake
say, get up and get up and go ah
say, get up and get up and go ah
Oh Dream-a-dream-awake
Dream awake, dream awake
say, get up and get up and go ah
get up and get up and
get up and get up and
Dream awake, dream awake

Find lines to move guys rely on a vision
Filled with rhymes, the room is filled with villains, and ghost
We toast and coast to the next host
Many boast of battles won and the day is fading fast

The work is passed through the self destruction
Why you wanna burn, why you wanna drown?
Why you wanna die by the highway?
The front lines intertwine

Smash lies,
(wake up), stand up and jump off to this
yeah wake up, stand up and jump off to this

wake up, stand up and jump off to this
Some piece of mind from the daily grind

stand up
yeah wake up, stand up

We'll bounce over beats and rock shows
So fast so slow never know where the day may go
Bounce and we bubble over hills and valleys

We go through the fields of green in between destinies
Or just get high, nah there's no need
No need to feed on the scraps of the enemy
Where's the bad guy on the inside one day I might try


Smash lies,
(wake up), stand up and jump off to this (dream awake)
yeah wake up, stand up and jump off to this
yeah wake up, stand up and jump off to this
wake up, up, jump off to this

(mixing samples)

I told her you must go
You can't stay here
She said I know
Since the death blow
My soul's been oh like sand
I'm so tired
it's like my spirit expired

Remember when I was just a child yet
Now I feel like a star a
daybreak about to expire
And get lost in the sun
Me and you
We gotta leave and just run and run

Don't wait for me while I'm down
Cause I might not get up
All I have is right now but I
give you what I got

You are the only good thing
that I have ever done
We will walk until my blood
runs out until my heart is burned
You are not alone

Run yet run yet running away
Promised and you choose to stay
Up and down do look away
Climbing them most every day

...

Patience on top of a mountain
Pumping blood through the
veins of creation

We are not alone

He aches for her but can't
find his way can't live no more

I ache for her but can't
find my way I can't live no more

She is not alone

Just before the light goes away
Comes a child that collects
all the reasons to be

That laughs and that smiles
Moments of clarity

Exchanging them for another day
And so my heart continues to say

You are the only good thing
that I have ever done
We will walk until my blood
runs out until my heart is burned
You are not alone

Here we go it's you and me
Gotta let go
Gotta believe
Rip through negativity
Find a place that we can be

So I agree inevitably we can't
stay here eternally
The day has come

The bottom's out don't be a grump

She said we got to go
We can't stay here
I said I know but got no place to go
The nights are cold
And we need a place to be

Remember when I was just a child yeah
Now I feel like a star a
daybreak about to expire
And get lost in the sun
Me and you
We gotta leave and just run and run

Run and Run

Run and Run and Run

You can't stay

Can't stay

Run and Run

Run and Run and Run

We will walk until my blood
runs out until my heart is burned

Sometimes I lay under the moon
And I thank God I'm breathing
Then I pray don't take me soon
Cause I am here for a reason

Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know someday it'll all turn around because

All my life I been waiting for
I been prayin for
For the people to say
That we don't want to fight no more
They'll be no more wars
And our children will play

One day

It's not about win or lose cause we all lose when they feed on the souls of the innocent blood drenched pavement keep on moving though the waters stay raging and in this life you may lose your way, it might drive you crazy but don't let it phase you no way

Pre-chorus
Chorus

One day this all will change
Treat people the same
Stop with the violence down with the hate one day we'll all be free and proud to be under the same sun singing songs of freedom like…

Running from the park
Sleeping out in the rain
From falling down the drain
Feeling drained from the main
Mutilated disease disaster deficient and dead
Raging waves with no name
Raining pain distorted face
Placing blame
Hyper-judging all the time
Lost my mind on the train
Running from the insane
Children taught to blow their brains out in the holy name
Running for fame where everybody knows your name

Running the same vein empty shatters splattered nothing matters anyway
Running for something to say
Looking for meaning the speech
Running from a fray
It's the great escape
Got to sneak away
When they look away we'll just fade away
Carry me in your memory
If I should pass away before the break of day

Like the light life happy clouds fluff
Hazy rice sunny days puff fly a kite afraid to face the night
What if I can't make it right
The sword cuts both ways
Night and day
Joy that goes away
Things seem to sway
Nothing stays the same
Even in this madness we will survive
Even in this madness we will survive

It's the great escape
Got to sneak away
When they look away we'll just fade away
Carry me in your memory
If I should pass away before the break of day
Running through the forest and I'm running through the woods
Running my whole life running like I should
Running for survival
Running from the rifle
Running for the Bible blood libels and false idols

Craziness inside me
Afraid to pick through the bushes and see
Closed off bogged down reality
Bind barbed wire with no key

Running
Running

It's the great escape
Got to sneak away
When they look away we'll just fade away
Carry me in your memory
If I should pass away before the break of day

When the time is right
I'll leave this place tonight
Just leave everything behind
It's time to face my life
We'll trail a path across that gap
Slap back through a crack in time
Is anyone on the other side
Seek and you might find

So high so low I don't know where but we got to got to go there
So high so low I don't know where but we got to got to go there got to go there

Why not give up buck up drop down why not lie down and never wake up give in Give up and don't get up give in to the ground who gives a
She is frozen in time behind the enemy lines in the night time she stares down The highway which way's the right way walking through this world on a tight Rope of memory the door swings both ways in and out in and outside so buckle Up it's gonna be a bumpy ride no
Its gonna be a bumpy ride no

So high so low I don't know where but we got to got to go there
So high so low I don't know where but we got to got to go there got to go there

I am searchin for the shade of the tree
Heard about it from a tune in the breeze
They say exists on the side of the road
But which road nobody was told (so lo)
All i know is i must find a road that leads where nobody goes (so lo)
Where i can roll down all the windows where the wind blows down those fears And foes (so hi)
So let go of the steering wheel let go let go (so lo)
All i know is i must find a road that leads where nobody goes
Let go of the steering wheel let go let go

So high so low I don't know where but we got to got to go there
So high so low I don't know where but we got to got to go there got to go there

Sit back
And in these days
Remember my ways
Oh will i get out of my cage?
Yes i am a slave

Searching for some freedom
Searching for some freedom

So intend to sing them
Songs to spark, memories
What is a man with no history?
Where am i ?
Who am i ?
What is this place?,
We're just spinning in space

I will be light
I will be light
I will be light
I will be light

Time will continue without you
So in the end
Its not about you
But,
What did you do?
Who do you love besides you
Beside you, many died in the name of vanity
Many die,in their mind’s eye, for justice
We die for you
And still do
So i say to you
This is nothing new

I will be light
I will be light
I will be light
I will be light

Its/In one tiny moment in time
For life to shine, to shine
Burn away the darkness

You’ve got one tiny moment in time
x7 For life to shine, to shine
To burn away the darkness

I will be light
I will be light
I will be light
I will be light light light light
I will be light
I will be light light light light

Undo the clasps, cast the shackles to the sea
They flee from themselves and they can't understand
They burn humanity in their search to be free
But freedom's not for sale

When you run for the moonlight
To dance on a ray and become
What you knew to be true but the time flew by
You been searching for a reason why

And I, I will be there for you
To search for you wherever you are
And I, I will be there for you
To look for you wherever you go

When you dance in the drizzle fizzle out
Fist out, blissed out , shout it loud
Through the clouds , oh and rock out
I can't stop now 'cause I move like the breeze

With ease and grace we stay laced
As we move through the space dancing on a blade
Of grass at twilight a firefly fly free through the night
I shine bright from the ground to the sky

And I, I will be there for you
To search for you wherever you are
And I, I will be there for you
To look for you wherever you go

On and on we go as the world turns the world burns
Come from Mount Zion and stay out of the whirlwind
Move to the music 'cause the world don't sit still in silence
We climb through blindness

And I, I will be there for you
To search for you wherever you are
And I, I will be there for you
To look for you wherever you go

(Ahhs solo)
(Ahhs with chorus)

There is a place in the bottom of the soul,
it's no bread of restitution
hearts splash fly like dough
where there is no pollution

you would know words to hold
folks question your solutions
bedrock of a river that flowed
no times, present or future

We are men of - nature
We are made from the earth
at the end of my eighty, I'll return to the dirt
just sand, just rock, dry land, fast and silent
only bein' only breathin'
We're just children of believers.

type, fire and water be strong with compassion
in the morning we're born everlasting
like the grass by the sea
and in-with the wind which knocks ya down time and again
We remain and sing
stand until the dawn of day carries us away
as We sway through the phases of each generation
We leave our trace and then leave this station

fierce fronts, fantasy phased
no blame, untamed or spoken
shiggy walks through this space
on dry land that's cracked and broken

we came: to taste the rain
we're just, widows and orphans
not afraid to feel the pain
or to leave behind our notions

bathe in showers, taste the tension,
hear the howl, climb the mountain,
kiss the cold and feel the frozen

read the dreams in this here dungeon

We are men of - nature
We are made from the earth
at the end of my eighty, I'll return to the dirt
just sand, just rock, dry land, fast and silent
only bein' only breathin'
We're just children of believers.

There is fire in these leaves and therefore naturally,
I'm not afraid to face these seasons.
'cuz, times change and there's no one to blame
even when the day is leavin'
will you lie as though a lion in the morning sun
or will ya, just lay there bleedin'

when the time has come, return to the kingdom
close my eyes and be screamin "freedom"

freedom freedom
freedom, freedom
freedom freedom
freedom

We are men of - nature
We are made from (freedom) the earth
at the end of my eighty, I'll return to the dirt
just sand, just rock, dry land, fast and silent
only bein' only breathin'
We're just children of believers.

We are men of, Nature
We are made from the earth
at the end of my eighty, I'll return to the dirt
just sand, just rock, dry land, fast and silent
only bein' only breathin'
We're just children of believers.

children of believers.

(echo: eevers..)

Raise the gate, motivate the place
Take a taste as we blaze on through the fate
Clean slate, move on, chant all night long
Gonna sing my song 'til the early morn

When the moon shines down all upon the land
This ain't no game and this ain't no scam
I ran from BK unto Japan
From Israel to the Holy Land

Open up and breathe in now out shout out loud
Won't you let it all out, spit fountains?
Whether day or night shine bright
When I fly through the night

Would you leave it all behind?
Revelation wake in the morning
To find you waiting even in a desperation
Feel something that's embracing

Revelation wake in the morning
Even in a desperation
Even in this desperation
Even in a desolation

Got to trail my path, slash page combat with a glass
Intact, no react and stack build up the nation
Can't replace them and a youth them gone invasion
It's a journey , I'm a wandering soul

Speak up on the unspoken and a pour out
The timeless suffering and lift up on the curtain
Spin on the wheels of creation
I'm a searching, I'm a searching search light
When the time is right and the night is ripe

Would you leave it all behind?
Revelation wake in the morning
To find you waiting even in a desperation
Feel something that's embracing

Revelation wake in the morning
Even in a desperation
Even in this desperation
Even in a desolation

Catch the arrows filled with poison

Open up the gate
Let my prayer rise up
And I struggle every day
just to get myself up
For the force of gravity that
keeps sinking my ship
Time again one is bound to slip
We rip through these days
We flip through the age
Survive stay alive we
won't trip in the haze
Lost in the maze
I know it's just a phase
But I dread it dread it dread it
I won't let my life go to waste
I'm a struggla

Rise and never fall cause I
been through it all

So ask yourself and think twice
Would you want to live your life

Oh we pay the cost
The pain and all the loss

Sell the youth them dreams of ease and fame

Will be a breeze when you got a big name
Cash fast fast cars to
escape all of the pain

Escape your brain and so it stays the same

We would not lay down

We won't live in vain

We won't be drained

And I got to maintain

I won't let my life go to waste
I'm a struggla

Rise and never fall cause I
been through it all

So ask yourself and think twice
Would you want to live your life

Oh we pay the cost
The pain and all the loss

There's something wrong with the system
That leaves it's people victim

Keep on slipping can't seem to catch up
Try to rise at night but my
legs they stay stuck

There's something wrong in the system
That leaves it's children victim

...

I won't let my life go to waste
I'm a struggla

Rise and never fall cause I
been through it all

So ask yourself and think twice
Would you want to live your life

Oh we pay the cost
The pain and all the loss

Oh we pay the cost
The pain and all the loss

Rise and never fall cause I
been through it all

So ask yourself and think twice
Would you want to live your life

Oh we pay the cost
The pain and all the loss

...

Open up the gates let my prayer rise up

Oh we pay the cost
The pain and all the loss

I can't stop drop and roll
Fire been burning out of control
And burning keep the hearts all yearning
And the heads them keep on turning

I dig in, I dig in and sinking my teeth in
Spit fire 'cause I'm the last dragon
Knock, knock them down sizzling with a vision
New York City to Jerusalem

Concrete jungle burn down Babylon
'Cause a simple man am I
With my chest up to the sky
When I walk by, my talk rides high like the wind rewind

I'll be by your side when nighttime it runs on
And the children they ride high
I'll be standing on the sun
Burn into the light, burn into the sun

Find these lines that climb from inside
The dream in between, the words you might
Hear me slur as the vision it blurs

And the sun sets you don't know who to follow
And the path that they passed seems shallow
You never know where you might go
But the seed that you plant is the seed that you sew

And rain down at midnight I ride my bike
King with my broken crown
Brooklyn Bridge to Crown Heights

I had to cross the line to leave you behind
With hopes to find some peace of mind
Now I'm looking for your voice
through the chitter-chatter
that doesn't matter that's
torn and tattered these angels on a ladder
This laughter
Strip away the extra plaster
I'm crashing fast
it's the morning after
Through the hum and the buzz
The thickness and the fuzz
I jump over puddles to stomp through the sludge

Look for me through the wind and rain
Sunshine remember my name
I'll be coming yes I'm running oh I'm on my way
Just stay and I'll be there by the break of day

Look for me through the wind and rain
Thunder remember my name
I'll be coming yes I'm running oh I'm on my way
Just stay and I'll be there by the break of day

I had to evacuate the premises
you're your own nemesis
The premises you're born and blood and
leave the world penniless
I had to remember that there's
darkness before the exodus
Split the sea
We'll flee to the next
Come and vent with us

I had to send and blend out
Spent it all on sentences fend
off the members of relentless pessimists
I had to miss the world
Looking for the core
Cure my heart so I can live more

Look for me through the wind and rain
Sunshine remember my name
I'll be coming yes I'm running oh I'm on my way
Just stay and I'll be there by the break of day

Look for me through the wind and rain
Thunder remember my name
I'll be coming yes I'm running oh I'm on my way
Just stay and I'll be there by the break of day

Thunder
Remember my name Thunder
Remember my name

City lights shine and I'm on my way
This time tomorrow I'll be on my way
At the break of day I look for you at sunrise
When the tide comes in I lose my disguise

Look for me through the wind and rain
Sunshine remember my name
I'll be coming yes I'm running oh I'm on my way
Just stay and I'll be there by the break of day

Look for me through the wind and rain
Thunder remember my name
I'll be coming yes I'm running oh I'm on my way
Just stay and I'll be there by the break of day Day...

Thunder
You feel it in your chest

Thunder
You feel it in your chest

Yih'yu l'ratzon imrei fi V'hegyon libi l'fanecha, adonai tzuri
Yih'yu l'ratzon imrei fi V'hegyon libi l'fanecha, adonai tzuri*

I will crush my fantasy,
bring me olive oil crushed for his majesty
to shine a warmth into eternity, this is an eternal decree,
We'll dance like flames for there's no gravity,
for now I'm just a candle trying to stay lit in this windy night.

Got to crush my fantasies of how this life is supposed to be

Bring my broken heart to an invisible king with a hope one day you might answer me, so I pray don't you abandon me.

Your silence kills me;
I wouldn't have it any other way.

Is it wrong to think you might speak to me?
You might speak, would it be words and what would you say?

It's so heavy a heavy price to pay

your silence.

*(translation: Let it be your will that my words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart come before you, God my rock my redeemer)