Candles

Abie Rotenberg HASC A Time for Music #4

All it takes is one small candle
One small flickering shining candle
That is all it takes to penetrate the dark
All it takes is one soft word
One soft soothing gentle word
That is all it takes to mend a broken heart

Chorus:
When we/if we/let's all put our hearts and minds together
A thousand glowing candles burning bright
Then we/we'll become a force that can’t be measured
And together we/we'll (can) drive away the night

All it takes is one small tear o
One small glistening earnest tear
That is all takes to melt a heart of stone
All it takes is one bright smile
One sweet caring loving smile
That it is all it really takes to know you’re not alone

Chorus

(Bridge)
Let’s raise our voices in harmony
Someday soon we’ll all be free
If only we could all stand together

All we have is one small dream
One small glorious hopeful dream
That is all we’ve ever had to help to pull us through
All we ask for is one more miracle
One last long awaited miracle
That is all we need to make our dreams come true

Chorus

My Fellow Jew

Avraham Fried My Fellow Jew

G-d smiled in heaven but His joy was not complete
The angels were singing but their song had no wings
The world was freshly painted yet the sky was feeling blue
Something, something just wasn’t right

Then with you came a G-dly light
That made the world complete
You gave the world its heart
You gave the world its soul
Now G-d can call this place his home
For now there was you
My brother, my fellow Jew

Chorus:
So with all my heart and soul let me honor you
A gentle people with a faith of steel
You teach the world how to live and how to give and how to believe
If I could look into your heart I would see the face of G-d

You have weathered all the storms they’ve all come and gone
You are the unsung heroes of the world
And you were born of ancient days and you will go on and on
I’ve seen miracles before but the greatest of them all is you my fellow Jew

Who can count the teardrops that have fallen from your eyes
And who would dare to measure the pain that you have known
Yet here you are undaunted with a mission and a dream
You carry on when hope is gone
All that you live for will come true

And so when at times I’m feeling weak
It’s you who makes me strong
And when at times I cannot speak
You become my song
I know I can do the impossible
When I think of you, my brother, my fellow Jew

So with all my heart………..

Forever One

Avraham Fried
Forever One
Composed by Yossi Green

Look inside through the heart of a Jew
Open up its many doors
And the soul that you'll see there inside
Is a reflection of yours
For each soul is a part of one whole
That joins us to each other
We are all part of one another
And we have always been one

We began as a nation to live
And believe with one heart
You and i we were all gathered there
As one we said we'll do and hear
We were born to belong together
And forever be one

Forever one we will go far
It's not I am but who we are
We need just to believe it
We need to try and feel it
And never are we alone
We have each other as our own
Nothing can divide us
For we are forever one

These are times when we might drift apart
And go our own separate ways
But the spark from above that we share
Is alive and ablaze
Soon Moshiach will gather each spark
And shine away the darkness
He will gather us all together
And we shall ever be one

Broken Hearts

Broken Hearts
8th Day, Brooklyn
Shmuel Marcus/Bentzy Marcus

He woke up on his last morning
Under a sky so blue
The battlefield stretches a mile
Cries echo through
From the shackles and the chains
He whispers his final song
He's talking to heaven when he cries
How long?! How long?!

Though the Leningrad search lights
May be far behind her
She's living with a secret
Buried deep inside her
She pictures her children
And she tries to stay strong
She's talking to heaven when she cries
How long? How long?!

How long?! How long?! Ad mosai, till when?!
When all the hearts are broken
How can You shatter a dream
When all the world is trembling
How can You shake anything
When all the songs have ended
Only Your song will sing better
You're the only who can put a broken heart back together

It happens every morning
Sometime around six
The sun it starts shining
Playing all those tricks
With a paintbrush in your hand
And the canvas on the wall
We're talking to heaven when we cry
How long?! How long?!

Let's Change the World Today

Avraham Fried

Some people say the world has gone bad
Evil has stolen the day
Some people say to throw in the towel
I dont feel that way
'Cuz every good deed that you do
And every kind word that you say
has a away to change the world

Chorus:

There is so much we can do to make this world
a kinder better happier place
There is so much we can do to change the world
Let's change the world today

That day in September changed our lives
The darkest day by far
They broke our heart but woke up our soul
We'll show them who we are
'Cuz we are towers of light
And we have the power to do what is right
Let's illuminate the night

chorus

You don't need a reason or season my friend
You don't need fortune or fame
Go out of your way, make someone's day
Now that's the name of the game
'Cuz every kind deed that you do
And every kind word that you say
Has a way to change the world

chorus

So step up to the plate
And celebrate your freedom
The world is not a jungle
So dont bungle your chance
And if youre tired of the world as it lies
Remember that one good deed is better than a thousand sighs

Our Holy House

Our Holy House
Tzlil Vzemer Wake up Yidden

Our Holy House in ruins and flames,
Only one wall of it remains,
The wall that outlasted all the rest,
The Kosel Hamaarovi on the west.

Throughout the years every day
Thousands of Jews at the wall do pray,
Their tearful eyes to heaven gaze,
Hoping the rest will soon be raised.

Our symbol of courage, of faith and of hope,
Giving us strength with the Golus to cope,
Rousing our hopes that bimheirah t'will be,
The walls of the Mikdash Hashlishi.

(Throughout the years...)

My Zayde

Moshe Yess
Megama

My Zayde lived with us in my parents’ home,
He used to laugh, he put me on his knee.
He spoke about his life in Poland,
He spoke, but with a bitter memory.

He spoke about the soldiers who would beat him;
They laughed at him, they tore his long black coat.
And he spoke about a synagogue that they burned down,
And the crying that was heard beneath the smoke.

Chorus:
But Zayde made us laugh,
Zayde made us sing,
And Zayde made a kiddush Friday night;
And Zayde, oh, my Zayde,
How I loved him so,
And Zayde used to teach me wrong from right.

His eyes lit up when he would teach me Torah,
He taught me every line so carefully.
He spoke about our slavery in Egypt,
And how G-d took us out to make us free.

But winter went by,
Summer came along,
I went to camp to run and play.
And when I came back home,
They said, “Zayde’s gone,”
And all his books were packed and stored away.

I don’t know how or why it came to be,
It happened slowly over many years,
We just stopped being Jewish
like my Zayde was,
And no one cared enough to shed a tear.

Chorus

But many winters went by,
And many summers came along,
And now my children sit in front of me.
And who will be the Zayde of my children,
Who will be their Zayde, if not me?

Who will be the Zaydes of our children,
Who will be their Zaydes, if not we?