Mordechai Ben David Lonely People

NOTE: In the video, the title page says that the song is from the Ohel Concert 5768. It's actually from 5758.

Hineni Title Track Mordechai Ben David MBD Jewish Music Lyrics

Hineni is one of MBD's first albums. This song is classic. 

I found these producer's notes for the album on Mostlymusic.com:

Liner notes for MBD Hineni We live in a time when directness of emotion and resourcefulness of imagination are primary to sustain success. The entertainer who emerges and survives must have great depth and venturesome to further develop his potential and to continue to absorb new sounds and experiences. Mordechai Ben David, endowed with and exceptionally talented voice, has already captivated many audiences in the States and in Israel. He is gifted with the ability to inspire his listeners, possessing the unique capacity to convey the emotional feelings inherent in the words and melodies of his selections. He already ranks as one of the greatest singers in Jewish Music today, and continues on his successful road to stardom. The Neginah has a record of outstanding achievement and popularity in a remarkably short period of time , and shows infinite promise for the future. Yisroel Lamm, Neginah\'s conductor and director, is considered to be one of the most imaginative and creative people in Chassidic Music of today. Together with Yitzchok Gross, Neginah\'s very dynamic and capable production manager, he has been able to produce some of the greatest musical masterpieces of our time.

Here's the song:

A dark cloud of despair surrounds your heart

Disillusion with life your face imparts

You are wandering in a world of confusion

Reality is hidden behind the web of illusion.

Chorus

So my brothers put your faith in the Above

Say "Hineni," I am ready to serve you with love.

The truth lies at the end of a forest dense

Your heart is your compass your spiritual sense

Let it lead you along the right road

And let the words of the Torah be your navigational code.

Our father Abraham was called by G-D to sacrifice his son

With the cry of Hineni the deed was done

Now what will become of our father's devotion

If we won’t say Hineni in our every emotion

Our forefathers smiled as they died in peace

But the cries they began will never cease

The words they cried shook the heavens above

They said Hineni, we are here with love

Neshama / Soul Title Track Mordechai Ben David MBD Jewish Music Lyrics

From one of MBD's first albums. Classic. 

I think he says "tundreds of sand" but i can't find a dictionary that has heard of the word Tundred. 

Here's a blurb for the Album that I found on Mostlymusic.com:

Liner Notes for MBD Neshama - Soul Mordechai Ben David is a child of a glorious musical tradition. His father, Cantor David Werdyger, is the world’s foremost interpreter of the famous music of Ger, Poland’s largest Chassidic center. Cantor Werdyger was an authentic wunderkind, of pre-war Europe. His son is an American original, blending timeless religious motifs with today’s sound. In the past few years, Mordechai has become one of our foremost singers. He has performed before thousands throughout the United States and abroad. After the Yom Kippur War, he was invited to entertain the Israeli troops. With his religious background and his musical talent, he gives us his new album Neshama (soul). The producers of this album bring you the very best. Tap your feet to such lively tuned as Al Hanisim the sit back and let Mordechai stir your soul with his Vaani Tefilati.

Here's the song

A stranger adrift in an unfriendly land
Of mountains, tundras of sand
To enrich and enliven this wasteland is his goal
His name is Neshama, soul

From a mountain came a gift of the only true life
Sinai now stands for bloodshed and strife
When rifles fall silent and tanks cease to roll
The victor will then be the soul

Blackened and charred like a synagogue burned
Lies a tank lifeless and overturned
Four heroes within snuffed out like a coal
But forever and ever and ever alive is the soul

Unity - A song for Sholom Rubashkin

This is MBD's Unity, modified for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, sung by every name in Jewish Music (You can see a blurry Benny Friedman behind Rebbetzin Rubashkin at the beginning of the video). Sholom is still in prison.....efforts are still under way to get him released........if you can, please donate!

Unity by MBD Mordechai ben David Jewish Music Lyrics

Unity by MBD

Like angels in the sky in a garden full of Glory

A galaxy so brilliantly related

Ultimately high on the first page of our story

Until the time our parents were created.

Envious brother Cain

Threw a blow so mad and chilling

Tragically he never did recover

It’s really so insane all our selfishness that’s killing

That stranger who’s our sister and our brother.

Chorus:

Listen brothers, listen friends

Just a little smile a helping hand

And we all will find a loving and kind humanity.

We must teach our children to

Treat your fellow friend like they were you

And our souls will find such peace of mind and unity.

Ages rushing by writing chapters full of sorrow

Webs of self destruction we are weaving

We don’t even try, there’s no hope for our tomorrow

‘cuz what’s it all worth if we are not achieving.

Chorus:

But one thing makes me smile

Now at last a happy ending

A universal union undivided

In just a little while we will join the angels singing

With peace and love across the world united.

The Crack of Dawn MBD Mordechai ben David Jewish Music Lyrics

Trembling in the darkness
A battle field, who knows
The soldier crawls ahead
For behind him someone goes
Oh heaven!
Pounding is his heartbeat
He whispers words of prayer
It seems that all his life
In a flash may disappear

Wait the crack of dawn
As it greets the weary trooper
Now his comrades he can see
Reunited all for victory
And there beneath the sun
In a moment he has conquered
All his fear just slipped away
Like the night so swiftly turned to day

Trembling in the darkness
Praying for the light
It seems it may never come
At the darkest of the night
Oh yes!
This galus it surrounds us
A battle field who knows
We slowly inch a head
We believe its really close

Wait the crack of dawn
Bright horizon soon the sunshine
Yes Moshiach’s on his way
All the grief the sorrow slipped away
The past is but a dream
In Yerushalyim the bais hamikdosh
Yes this golus slipped away
Like the night so swiftly turned to day

Celebration,
exaltation
Young and old dancing everywhere
We believed it all
Have been (heaven) standing tall
Eternal paradise, euphoria
The past is but a dream
In Yerushalyim, the bais hamikdosh
Yes this golus slipped away
Like the night so swiftly turned to day
Pain so long forgotten,
night forever gone
Now here it is
the crack of dawn

Just One Shabbos MBD Mordechai ben David Title Track Jewish Music Lyrics

Just One Shabbos

Mordechai Ben David
Album: Just One Shabbos

The Western Wall on Friday night
His first time ever there
Strapped into his knapsack
With his long and curly hair
He stood there for a while,
Broke out with a smile
Emotion overwhelming joy with tears

The men were dancing there
Their hearts so full of love
They sang such happy tunes
To thank the One Above
For showing them the way
For giving them a day
To rest rejoice with peace of mind to pray

Just one Shabbos and we’ll all be free
Just one Shabbos come and join with me
We’ll sing and dance to the sky
With our spirits so high
We’ll show them all it’s true
Let them come and join us too

I said hello my friend
You seem to be amused
He said much more than that
I am a bit confused
I know I am a Jew
I was "bar mitzvah-ed" too
But Shabbos in our home who ever knew

He asked to join with us
To understand and see
He spent some time with us
In total ecstasy
Next Shabbos came along
His feelings grew so strong
He first began to feel that he belonged

He found this treasure
Made some changes in his life
A brand new family his children and his wife
They learn new things each day
To live the Torah way
The message of the Shabbos they will relay

Now every Friday night they go down to the Wall
Invite some people home and they will tell them all
We’ll teach you this new song
So join and sing along
And soon we’ll all be free it won’t be long

Memories by Abie Rotenberg, Performed by Mordechai ben David (MBD) and Avraham Fried Jewish Music Videos Lyrics at Ohel concert

"Someday" by MBD Mordechai Ben David

"Someday" by MBD Mordechai Ben David Jep Vol. 4 (Lyrics)

Written by Dina Storch
Performed by Mordechai Ben David on JEP Vol. 4

('When I was just a little boy', circa 1982, Avraham Fried was beginning his career and had a Chanukah concert in Madison, Wisconsin. My father packed the family into our green station wagon and we drove the 4 hours to Madison from Minneapolis in 7 hours, through horrible snow. When we arrived at the concert hall, the show was over and people were filing out. When Fried saw us, he re-assembled the orchestra and did one more song, just for us. It was this song.)

They learned in a dark frigid cellar 
Alone just a small group of men 
When in rushed the soldiers and led them all away 
The flame of Torah flickered on that day 

So many tears, so much sorrow 
The pain has lasted thousands of years 
but soon we'll stop crying the cruelty will end 
and Melech HaMoshiach will be sent 

Chorus: 
Someday we will all be together 
Someday we'll be sheltered and warm 
Never will we have to express any fear 
Our scars and our wounds will disappear 

 Avraham and Yitzchok will be there to greet us 
Yaakov and his sons will stand by and smile 
Moshe Rabbeinu will lead us once again 
in Yerushalayim - B'Ezras Hashem 

We learn every day and we daven 
We ask Hashem please bring those old times back 
We all knowhe is listening of course we know it's true 
For I've received the promise and so have you 

That Hashem will lead us out of this galus 
It won't be too much longer I know 
and then together we'll all daven together we'll all sing 
And praise and thank Hashem for everything 

 Chorus

"Memories" by Abie Rotenberg Journeys 2 (Lyrics)

Memories by Abie Rotenberg

I’m a very tired old and worn out man
And my eyes have long been blind
Most things that people say to me
Just seem to slip my mindBut the suffering and painful times
That were in years long gone
Are still as clear upon my memory
As the numbers on my arm 

What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
Who will stand before the world
Knowing what to say
When the very last survivor
Fades away

When I hold my grandson close to me
And his fingers trace the pattern of my tears
He asks me Zaide
Tell me why do you cry
What is it that you fear

And I tell him there once was another child
Who smelled this sweet and felt this warm
But he was taken from before my eyes
And only I remain to mourn

What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
And who will stand before a world
That now wishes to deny
How will they believe in someone
Who never heard the cries

There is little I can say or do
To make things change
Time has a way of passing by so fast
And like a fleeting shadow no one will recall
The faces of the past

What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
Yet one thought gives me comfort
It’s all that I have left
For I know that God in heaven won’t forget

"Memories" by Abie Rotenberg on Journeys Vol. 2 (Lyrics)

Take the Time

Recorded by Mordechai Ben David
Album: Father and Son's Biglal Avos

Listen and you’ll learn my son
for you the world has just begun
still before you know it
you may turn around see that life has passed you by
hear and heed the things I say
think about them everyday
make of every minute what you see when you begin it or it passes by

Make the time for things that count
cherish the friends that you find
think three times before you shout
always remember to be kind
Listen close when children speak
treasure the things that they know
the toys and tears of younger years
carry the wisdom when they go

Buddy can you spare a dime
sorry but I ain’t got time
Daddy can you study please
sorry son but don’t you see I cant today
little things that come and go
slip away before we know
the handles of the clock advance
and we who beg for second chances must obey

Take the time to do things right
always believe what you say
ask yourself each morning and night
who am I closer with today

Speak to Hashem with an open heart
there isn’t a shoulder so wide
there’s never been a better time to start
and nothing more foolish than your pride.

Listen and you’ll learn my son
for you the world has just begun
still before you know it
you may turn around see that life has passed you by
Every moment is so dear
time just doesn’t stop to care
swiftly as a shadow
in a moment as we turn around it passes by

So take your time, do things right
always believe what you say
ask yourself each morning and night
who am I closer with today
Speak to Hashem with an open heart
there isn’t a shoulder so wide
there’s never been a better time to start
and nothing more foolish than your pride.

I'd Rather Pray and Sing

Recorded by Mordechai Ben David

Album: I'd Rather Pray and Sing

I sit in darkness
remembering the light
of the Bais Hamikdosh standing
my Father’s delight
I am a son yearning
a child who is returning
to my Father’s embrace
to the Shechinah Hakedosha’s face

I don’t want a thing
I’d rather pray and sing
I’d rather tell the story
of Your holiness and glory
I don’t need a thing
I’d rather pray and sing
I’d rather tell the story
of Your holiness and glory.

You turned Your face away
here just left me in despair
Your commandments I didn’t obey
I know it’s not unfair
but Father please turn back
now I know Your Torah is right
please give me the strength that I lack
in the Yetzer Harah’s fight.

You sent me to repent
to purify my soul
well now my head is bent
my heart’s a burning coal
I’ve been wandering two thousand years
I was driven away from my home
I shed a few million tears
while in pain You watched me roam.

I know the time is now
I can feel it in my bones
Father please show me how
a sinful soul atones
now I’ll just sing until the Schechina stops crying
until we all stop sighing
and soon we’ll all be home
in Yerushalyim Habenuyah

Unity

Recorded by Mordechai Ben David
Album: MBD and Friends

Like angels in the sky
in a garden full of glory
the galaxies so brilliantly related
ultimately high
on that first page of our story
till the time our parents were created

Envious brother Cain
threw a blow so mad and chilling
tragically he never did recover
it’s really so insane
all our selfishness that’s killing
that stranger who’s our sister and our brother

Listen brother listen friend
just a little smile a helping hand
and our hearts will find a loving kind humanity
we must teach our children to
treat their fellow friends like they were you
and then the world will find such peace of mind and unity

Ages rushing by
writing chapters full of sorrow
webs of self destruction we are weaving
we don’t even try
there’s no hope for our tomorrow
because what it all worth if we are not achieving

But one thing makes me smile
now at last a happy ending
a universal union undivided
just a little while
we will join the angels singing
peace and love across the world united.