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Through gardens each morning I walk with my son
We water the plants street musicians play on
Jew Moslem or Christian Jerusaleman
The least you can do is the best that you can
“Can you thus make a living?” asks the old man
there’s food and we’re healthy no need to complain
if this is a Mensch then you are one too!!!2!!!
the voice from within it will ask WHO ARE YOU?
Not against we’re just four no bullets or stones
Not us and not them still never alone
A white flag is waving every day it is new
We’re human and so we have freedom to choose
Yes happy is he who’s content with his lot
The more that you gave is the more that you’ve got
There’s madness to method and vice versa too
a voice from outside asks again WHO ARE YOU?
I am who you are and you are who I am
Love yourself as your neighbor the name of the game
Do not do onto him what is hateful to you
Imagine a just world then go out and do!!
A soul takes a photo opportunity life
My greatest achievement to marry my wife (W.C.)
Would I want to trade places? if you only knew!!!!!!!
the voice from the loudspeaker beams WHO ARE YOU?
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Ofer Golany - Katmandu
02:05
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Like a leaf on the winds of change-
I arrange and rearrange
I flew to the east I flew to the west
I came back to the places I loved best
With my pockets full of dreams
and my notebook full of schemes
so when all of this is past
maybe I can get some rest
I joke with the road I talk to the stars
one bridge too close one kiss too far
No one I’d like better than you
on our way to Katmandu
I was born without a clue
who I was before I knew
jackpot : orange red yellow and blue
I hit it big when I met you (M.W)
If I’d waited just a bit
I could make some sense of it
another time another place another name another face So jump inside we’re ready to go
When do we come back? “I don’t know!”
No one I’d like better then you
on our way to Katmandu
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Ofer Golany - Musician
03:38
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My father had to fight his father took to flight
and me I study with magicians
His father a chazan his father a cohen
and I I will be a musician
Prisoners he refused to shoot
wouldn’t rape nor burn or loot
and I will turn their guns to saxophones
Gideon had seventy sons
the only one left was Yotam
and he turned his back on the throne
Listen brother man you are what I am
Lets not fall into this game of us and them
Just put away that gun play the tune be the one
שבחי ירושלים In the present you are a musician
My mother was a teacher my uncle was a preacher
intermarriage makes for good genetics
Brave enough? refuse to fight!
you can choose to do what’s right
and your deeds are the echo of your ethics
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Ofer Golany - Empress
04:00
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where does the light come from?
&whose the shadows cast?
whose eyes record the story?
Whose questions are these asked?
today she started talking tomorrow she will sing
for every door discovered there’s two birds on the wing
welcome to meet my empress this is her pregnancy
these words are our rivers we’re heading for the sea
her eyes will slowly open the horizon falls apart
the letters light a path to the chambers of the heart
through the keyhole of my questions
I sent my ship of fools
with love to fill her sails to break and heal the rules
how will you recognize the teacher you have found?
The shortest way home is the long way around
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Ofer Golany - Because
04:08
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BECAUSEwe’ve tasted shame like a vaccine
in the bible in the papers in the sand
and time trickles away in the watches
we each wear like a chain on our hand
I need love more than home or money
Only yes can now stem the tide
before night closes on us like quicksand
and we stay forever apart
BECAUSE fear flows in our blood like plasma
on the borders in our pockets in our beds
and time races like a train with no stations
to a desert at the end of the track
We need love more than hope or memory
Only yes can now turn the tide
before history burns our bodies like dry leaves
beneath the cold gaze of the stars Cm6
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ofer golany - Brother
02:19
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We sit on both sides of the very same table
we lay on both sides of the very same bed
and I can see when you crying
and you can see when I turn my head
We look each night at the very same north star
we live on both sides of the very same fence
we hear the answers in the wind blowing
our onions grow from the very same rain
And yes I’ve been taught that you are a killer
about me you have been taught the same
it’s just to keep me from seeing you brother
to keep us from seeing through this lying game
So come I’ll walk with you to the sunrise
so come and help me in singing this song
there’s just one earth beneath all these countries
I promise you the time won’t be long
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7. EL MALE / ILMALE (a translation of Yehudah Amichai)
God so full God so full of mercy grace and love
were he not were he not so full of the above
then mercy would be here in this world not just in him
then mercy would be here not just in him
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A weeping eye can never see
how long till we learn
we must first stop from running
before we can return
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Ofer Golany - A Leaf
04:50
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the wind has touched me I’m A LEAF
and now the time has come to leave
to make it seem less wrong I’ll hide it in a song
and then I must be moving on
the fire burns and I can see
all of the things I’ve yet to be
and this is only one nice place under the sun
and so I must be moving on
I’ve always chosen the unknown
beyond the safe and the secure
there’s only one thing that would make me stay
and then it happens and I go anyway
and though the towns change every other day
it’s still the same me and the same songs that I play
the time has come to change
and she has turned the page
and this time this time I will stay
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In the forest there’s a light
and the clouds are crying priests
all the love that flows through now
is witnessed by the trees
waves are laughing in the sea
fish or birds they chose to be
insects webs our words and thoughts echo in the wind
When god is everything you see
then everywhere you will see god
man the earth a womb the sun
water bread and children grow
Time for peace between all these
is all you ask to know
When god is everything you see
then everywhere you will see god
There’s a kingdom in the world
to be seen from the inside
When a heart forgives itself
there’s no need to hide
When god is everything you see
then everywhere you will see god
Life and death strong and weak
it’s just the one who plays hide ‘n seek
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New York Amsterdam Varanasi or Bangkok you’re never alone
KatmanduSanFranciscoRomeCopenhagen always heading home
Lugano Paris Boston Maastricht Eindhoven you’re never alone
KoPhanganHeidelbergTzfatYerushalayim you are coming home
Playing receiving blessing &giving don’t forget you’re not alone
Laughing and cooking dancing just looking always seeing home
Whistling waiting making love meditating you never were alone
Singing and walking tuning and talking everywhere is home
The fruit it is sweet and the circle’s complete
the answers to where when & how
Now that I’m here and everything’s clear
jump and jive into the here and now
Christina and Lisa Kim and Clarissa always feeling alone
Angela Monica Diedre Veronica looking for a home
Robert & Jimi Ariel Bob & Shlomo take off your highway shoes
I remember I hear you now I am near
you you’ve already paid your dues
Roomful of songs places and faces
all fade into one and it smiles
No striving arriving when all is forgiven
welcome to the world my child
To my son I said: you are the one and you’re not alone
My daughter too hope’s always true and despair is gone
groom to his bride said come to my side
this time and next time around
I heard a voice thanks for the choice now I’m never alone
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12. I know A GIRLshe says “take off your uniform”
she says
“if you desert I’ll hide you in my home”
she don’t care for heroes
she don’t talk revenge
Says she wants children and I’m the man (!)
Don’t carry no gun don’t be tempted by rank
I’ve got more life under my hood then a Merkava tank
I know some musicians they play a different game
She wants me alive to choose the baby’s nam
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jerusaleman Jerusalem, Israel
Musician Teacher Therapist in motion between Jerusalem and Berlin. Politisch
poetisch kabbalist feminist productions from creative spiritual spark to the logistics of performance tour.
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