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Table of Contents (Lyrics of all songs below)
1. Cain and Abel: "Am I My Brother's Keeper (Ha Shomer Acho Anoki) Listen."
2. Noah: "The Seeds of Change" Listen
3. Abraham and Isaac: "The Silence."
4. Moses and Aharon: "Exodus Chapter 5"
5. Moses: "The Days of Ten Plagues" (Watch video)
6. Rahab: "It's Going Down."
7. King David: "I Am Goliath!" Listen
8. Haman: "Venahafochu" (Watch vIdeo)
9. Rabbi Akiba and Raquel: "Learn Torah, Baby I'll Be There for Ya!" Listen
10. I'm Not White, I'm Jewish!
11. Hanukah: "The Burning Bush is in Your Building" Listen
1. Cain and Abel: "Am I My Brother's Keeper"
8 AM, I wake up and then, go back to sleep I ain't wakin' til 10,
I make a bagel with the cream cheese, workin' at three, until then i'm trying to take it easy.
Turn on the T.V., loads of shows they just go so slow with those highs and lows,
no - I ain't feelin' that, turn on the news and the news is revealin' that:
single mom going crazy, working two jobs can't provide for her baby,
people in Darfur like "who's gonna save me? Enslave me?"
Members of the government again acting shady,
man on the streets next meal is a 'maybe,' it doesn't even phase me,
it's not that I'm lazy, my coffee is warm and my bagel is tasty,
so why would it phase me, let alone change me what that phrase be?
CHORUS:
Am I my Brother's, my brother's keeper X3
I'm all about my people,
Ha Shomer Achi Anochi X3, I'm all about my people.
I go to work, I teach about Cain and Abel, some say it really happened some say it's just a fable,
it doesn't matter to me, there's something sadder to see,
kicked out the garden, no pardon, yeah Cain and Abel are startin',
to live in the real world giving gifts to the Lord, poor Cain's is rejected but he don't know what for,
mad at the Lord, he takes it out on Abel, with that murder, murder Mo murder - Cain is willing and able.
The blood started flowing til it wetted up the ground, the ground started moaning so the Lord came round,
put that mark on his head, though he's better off dead, when the people see him coming they'll say there's a fugitive.
Yeah, he was a farmer, but now when he digs, the earth is wearing armor and his shovel's made of twigs,
cursed all his days til he faces the reaper, all Cain had to say for himself is.....
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2. Noah: "The Flood"
CHORUS:
The seeds of change they need the rain to grow
soil turned and the wind to blow
I'll greet your eyes with a greater rainbow than ever known.
Release the dove from the ark window
watch it fly above a world resown
feast your eyes on my great rainbow.
I prefer that you hurt me, work me, murk me, take me to the desert and just desert me,
treat me like Cain with you word and curse me you tell me that I'm righteous but my plight is worse
see me building in the shadows, a boat with no paddles, the coast ain't close so the people think I'm mad
though I try to pull em pull em like a lasso, the arc is my horse and the lord is my saddle,
yea, but the people be clownin', and won't here no sounds when these clowns be drowning
just some high pitch scream like a shoalin shoutin', the waves all around they will be poundin the ground
two by two i got the animals surroundin' abscondin', up to the top of the yacht and then around in and down in
I'm taken by surprise when the lord shuts me in cause tears fill my eyes as the rain begins
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The flood gates opened like the heavens had a leak, and the waters come a gushin' from the fountains of the deep
and I'm rising on the tide til the mountains at me feet, seasick, believe it, I'm bumpin' into beasts
yeah I'm bumping to the beat to the beat of the sea, to the beat of the shrieks and the pleas and the screams
and the gasping and scratching from the people underneath,
and I know that they are murderers I know that they are thieves
but their cries are so bad it makes a madman out of me
my plight is so sad but the lord wont set me free
for 40 days and 40 nights the rain is slashin' and smashing
with no light there are no days i just imagine them passin'
curled in the corner my families askin' where dad's been
I'm hiding deep inside i just be crashin' whip lashin'
I don't care if i survive - my passion for lasting is about to leave when i perceive, the rain is passin
3. The Binding of Isaac: "The Silence"
Let me talk about the silence, even though Papa held his heart tween his eyelids,
talkin' 'bout the stars are my kids, but a birth on earth is needed to supply it,
up to Moriah with a knife and some dry twigs, 'where's the sacrifice?' he said god will provide it,
but i got a feeling that I'm it, could this be a trick cause a joke brings Isaac,
Papa got a vibe and i stand right beside it, something ain't right there's a fire inside it,
the dawn is red i no longer see violet, the stars are aligned and the sign is violence - silence.
CHORUS:
One day, you'll see, like the sand surrounding the sea
Like the stars light up eternity, such a people will come from your seed
Have faith, in me, Like the dust between wandering feet
Like the hope that prayers aren't dreams
Such a people will come from your seed...
He put the wood on my back, I looked him in the eyes thought that he would look mad,
but looked back with ease in his eyes and on top of all that, his look was so fat,
couldn't cut it with a knife, guess I'll put it like that, cause he put it like that,
we got to the top and my hands were strapped, and my feets were bound,
yeah, Papa kept his stare no he didn't look round, with his hand in the air and the knife coming down,
but the stare that we shared was the jewel in the crown of my soul so my heart no it didn't even pound,
no sound, just silence.
Chorus
They say the days of creation, took up the time of 1,000 generations,
I don't think that they playin', suspended in space is the mist of amazement
and though the blade was blazin', the sun was undone and there was a million days in, a moment of particular engagement
I heard the silence sayin' I will put my faith in a man, Amen.
4. Pharoah Vs. Moses and Aharon: "Exodus chp. 5"
Moses and Aaron, who you think you're scarin'?
I created the nile, so it should be apparent
I'm a crocodile, and your god is a sparrow
Thus said Hashem, no thus said Pharoah
you can open my slave eyes, I'll keep them narrow
I'm a make em them gather straw and moses you'll be their scarecrow
I own the world known, in case you've not heard
so who is you god? And tell me who has he conquered?
and who is your sponsor, who you representin'?
your something like an answer to an unasked question
'cause when you are mentioned, to the people you reppin'
they just look sick with their bricks and wish you'd get to steppin'
CHORUS:
Listen to me now Moses, 'cause i know that you know my name (Pharoh!)
To the east to the west yes, everybody knows my name, (Pharoh!)
And I created the Nile, while, your god was nowhere,
I don't even no his name, I know you know my name!
What are you mutterin'? why are you stutterin'?
diplomacy's a dry bread that you should be butterin'
but your mouth needs buttonin', so Aaron keeps buttin' in
first you wanna pray to celebrate then to avoid destruction
in the desert, Moses you buggin'
I give them what they need and you give them nothin'
Work shall set them free, so it's back to construction
idols for me, a poetic punishment
blame the government, but they'll blame other men
'cause the act of the taskmaster is to smother them
and they is they brother man, i said I'd deal shrewdly
and you will be the center when they speak of disunity
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5. Moses: "The Days of Ten Plagues"
CHORUS:
Moses at the red sea, like “who’s gonna follow me?”
Pharoah’s in the tide, we gonna ride, to our destiny,
In back of me, so sad to see, them bodies in the red sea
chariots get buried, b-b-buried in the red sea
Pharaoh sat and laughed when a staff became a snake,
too long we’ve been your slaves, just let us go and pray,
said "don’t make this mistake," no pardon his heart was hardened,
so started what we regard as: the days of 10 plagues...
ONE: blood in the river gonna shiver, gonna freak out
lips take a sip now there's blood in your mouth
TWO: frogs in your house on your beds on your plate
don't matter what's for dinner better like frog legs
THREE: knats buzz buzz watch the dust turn to bugs
itch itch hard to think with all the lice in your mugs
FOUR: beasts roam your streets when you step outside
there's a tiger on your tail nowhere to hide
Five: death of your livestock, flesh dries up
b-b-bodies in your barn Pharoah when you gonna wise up?
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SIX: boils on your flesh no less than torture
careful of the ash in the air it'll scorch ya
SEVEN: hail rains down beats your brains down
like a message from the heavens better lay our chains down
EIGHT: locusts from the coast you can hear their wing click
eating crops eating trees til they're used as toothpicks
NINE: darkness, dispatch, 3 days pitch
remember when this started and you thought it was just witchcraft
Death of the first born how did it come to this
TEN is what it took so we all would remember this
6. Rahab: "It's Going Down!"
CHORUS:
Its going down, these walls'll fall to the ground,
The seven shofars' sound,
The horror in the town, it's going under.
I know I look good, I know I'm mad fly
I keep my clients coming you don't need to ask why
it takes just one look which you already took
I've been with the prince's nephew and also the kings cook,
so i know a thing or two, bout what the king'll do
when he heard that you were coming started choking on his soup
reports from Egypt has got him sleepless
plagues and diseases and kings torn to pieces
rumors 'bout the Jordan and how the Sea of Reeds split
words on the street so the streets is speechless
there's like no sound, throughout the whole town
when the say "its goin down" i think they mean its going down.CHORUS
When I was a kid I used to pray to the stars
But then I got the feeling they don’t care who we are
I looked inside, that was my insight
A world opened up that makes the stars a dim light
Yeah, and I think you know what I’m saying
So swear by the god that we share when we praying
These walls that’ll fall are the walls that I stay in
Passover mine, baby I ain’t playing
And they will know they will know the god of Israel
Invincible, terrible, the god of Israel.
Oh they will know, they will know, the god of Israel
When they say "It's going down!" I think they mean it's going down.
CHORUS
You have no idea, my tears, my fears man they plague me
many men don't know my name but they all call me baby
and lately, i'm crazy, yeah i'm living on the edge
i know my house is in a wall but my mind is on the ledge
'cause it is said, everywhere i go, that i'm a show, and i can't say no
but deep inside of my heart, they don't know, no they don't know, I'm so much mo'
so when the king of Jericho sends soldiers to my door
the same two soldiers who came over just the night before
wakin' up my family and demanding much more than info
you think i tell them where you go my boys from Israel
I send em' chasing fictions hide you up upon the roof
not just because i hate them snitches but because you have the Truth.
7. King David: "I Am Goliath!"
I am Goliath, I am a beast
send somebody to the field so the birds can feast
send somebody to the field they come up to my knees
nine feet tall with a spear that can reach
the other side of the tide when I'm chillin' on the beach
got bronze on my legs got bronze on my chest
recline in the shine of my spear proof vest
yes yes Saul, i care not where you come from
I'll make you our slaves, reminisce the Egyptians
if you want some baby come and get some
make a myth of the god from MT. Zion
and I'm reppin' for the Philistines we come from the sea
but if you want the land you must defeat me
you must believe me, I'm a monster, I'm a beast
who among you gonna step to me?
CHORUS:
I am David, I come with the Lord,
you come with the sword, I come with the Lord
One stone, pick it up, two stones, pick it up, three stones,
pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
I am David, I come with the Lord,
You come with the sword, I come with the Lord
Four stones, pick it up, five stones, pick it up, pick it up,
put it in the sling and HIT HIM UP!
I am Goliath, I am your fate
and you don't realize that you are a mistake
one step on the ground and i make the earthquake
one look to the sky and i make the birds shake
40 days on the stage just shoutin' in defiance
i ain't heard a sound from your side just silence
my hands are the paw of a bear or a lions
who is this you send for to face my violence
how you gonna send a boy to do a man's job
with a sling and some stones like I'm nothing but a dog
boy you don't even fit into grown man's armor
as if your protected by the threads of your garment
you and your army couldn't disarm me
one stone pick it up you will never harm me
two stones pick it up go ahead and try it
who among you gonna step to Goliath.
CHORUS.
8. Haman: "Venahafochu..."
Intro: Put your Groger's in the air all the girls and boys
When i say Haman make some noise!
CHORUS:
Hey-man, What's with the attitude?
I don't know why you try to make us so mad with you
Mic check, one two, Venahafochoo,
you tried to make us cry so we laugh at you!
Now hold on who the heck is this who is not bowing to me?
my name is Haman I ain't playin' you should cower to see-
me, the king's second hand man, Mordecai stands
no he doesn't bow now every Jew in the land
is gonna get what is comin, the king has got my instructions
and when you see us coming Jews you better be runnin
i'm feeling good as can be, these jews are ceasin to be
and now the king and queen has called a special session for me
they want to know, how they should show appreciation elation
tell em' dress em' up in the kings clothes and get to paradin'
thought he was talking about me, but now my heads at the feet
of Mordecai whose in the ride now tell me how could this be
CHORUS
Oh no, no, this can not not be there must b-be a mistake
I'm so humiliated that my words have started to shake
indeed, all the Jews shall die but the ice on the cake
is when Mordecai is hung high from a 50 foot stake
I'm going back to the feast, I think the king will at least
have me at his table, probably saved me a seat
Yeah, my powers ridiculous, I will wear the crown
and Mordecai's dead body from the stake will have to bow down
but when I enter the center, I am presented by Esther
As the evil Haman, Hey man now this is offensive
Hey man, now Haman is swayin' high up above he is hangin
and Mordecai is below with the crown and sayin'
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9. Rabbi Akiba: "Learn Torah, Baby I'll Be There For Ya."
Akiva bad, no really he's good
never learned to read or write so he's misunderstood
by the father of the daughter who he fell in love with
her name was Raquel and she put it like this:
"Akiva, Akiva I know you are a believer
I know you go the temperature but you ain't got the fever
your heart is pure of this I'm sure to be with you I'm eager
meet me at the source with the torch of the seeker and....
CHORUS:
Learn Torah, learn Torah, learn Torah
bit by bit from alphabet to sentences to passages
to pages with phrases from sages oh baby
learn Torah, learn Torah, baby I'll be there for you"
Akiva say, well, gimme dalet hey
sitting in the class with the kiddies all day
the kiddies all laugh, cause his beard going gray
and Akiva wouldn't last but Raquel she say:
"Akiva Akiva, I know you're not defeated
in town they call you clown but up in heaven you are seated
your soul could be the future learn tradition and then be it
your light is out of sight you need a vessel for to see it so...
CHORUS
Akiva learn, he start with Aleph Bet
26 years late and his mind is most blessed
people call him great but he never forgets
although he knows a lot that his wife knows best:
"Akiva Akiva I'm so proud you are a teacher
at last you use your temperature to give people the fever
I was always sure your heart was pure, bidabump, now it's a speaker
chilling at the source with the torch of the seeker, yeah we...
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10. I’m Not White I’m Jewish
CHORUS:
Back when I rapped in high school, people told me I’m tight for a white dude.
I’m not white I’m Jewish, I’m not white I’m Jewish.
Not trying to be a prophet but he who parted the sea,
is a part of me
and when look in my heart I see, the same mystery,
and I know that we share the same history.
Yeah, Hebrew is the language of G-D, so silently, I know he walks with me,
like O.G., I'm G'ed up, I'm G-D'ed up,
I'm a read up with my feet up,
Sabbath is practice til we all get freed up
so please plant your seeds up,
Israel's the bride and the groom's inside
and when I'm staring at the Lion, I'm like open wide
and when I'm drowning in the ocean, I will choke the tide
snatch a patch from the sky, put that patch in my eye
you can tell me I’m fly, but it’s not for a white guy
I’m not white I’m Jewish
CHORUS
Even with my eyes low, my shine show,
wise guys eyes close, respecting what my mind know,
my reach is like a newborns, I’m grabbin at everything,
get mad rich and take it back from the savages,
Sabbathes pass, but its not ash to ash,
it’s “what? to what?” and its task to task,
yeah, life is to act with more secrets than Akiva knew
it doesn’t matter what you think it only matters what you do,
I’m tired these days cause I’m getting up earlier,
my eyes carry baggage, my Jew-fro’s curlier,
the patch on my pants for the lack of the cabbage is a problem,
I’m working on solving
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11. Hanukah rap: "The Burning Bush is in Your Building"
CHORUS:
Light is in the air, more fire, more fire
light is in the air more fire (X4)
Uh-oh you lit, now we shall revisit
the burning bush is in your building or perhaps you are forgetting
let's go back to the beginning:
Moses - a bush is burning
and there is a voice within it,
and there is a voice within it
Echoed to Sinai, the fire that descended, never-ended
through the desert so the night-time was suspended
and its up on Shlomo's altar, ‘til his temple building ended
to Elijah's fire, grilling with a vengeance
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cause the fire inside us that is what the light is
that small still voice and it seems to've gone quiet...
So we traveled on to Babylon, stepped on, we got our gravel on
yet knowing we'd return rebuild a temple to put our cattle on
fire, fire, Ezra led the choir
Nehemia will restore ya and the Torah will ignite ya
CHORUS
And then the Greeks came with a unique claim
Humans is so perfect you ain't got no need for The Name
or the flame, just like these days,
everybody is expected to be truly the same
and the tide rose high, but the fire survived
and we tucked it inside, just before the darkest night
yeah, Rome scattered stars, like the lord was shooting dice – 7 need 11 from heaven to exile...
but in the embers of our teachers, in the torches of our seekers
Moshe's moment could still reach us, learn tradition it can be us
put them candles on our mantles so that all the nations see us
go ahead an spark that match, Hanukah's about to blast
it’s a miracle we lit it, we are back at the beginning
the Burning Bush is in your building and the voice is still within it! (singing)
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