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Time To Come Home

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1.
Measure For Measure 06:06
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Songs Lyrics In the place of your haughtiness you will be brought low And every law that you transgress is going to bring another sorrow This is the way the scales are set everything in just measure You may add or detract or you might even make things a little bit better and I say Just weights and measures Measure for measure And if the accuser brings evidence and our fate is sealed forever The judge can only set us free by raising an oppressor So it will be until we see only he is our protection And if you want to be redeemed you got to earn a coin of redemption and I say (Chorus) And if the rains refuse to fall you know there is a reason And if we burn the book of rules the punishment is treason Don't blame the heavens no, look into the mirror And if you suffer you'll see it's so You can see things a little clearer and I say (Chorus) Don't worry my little child - Though it's dark it will get better Our father will correct us all - Everyone in just measure And I say (Chorus)
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Chaverim 04:09
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Songs Lyrics Chaverim Kol Israel Were Coming to rebuild Jerusalem Better make way for the new generation Don't be afraid don't stand in the way Don't be afraid of what the people might say With a double edged sword in our right hand We'll all come together all across the Land And when the rain comes and the storm clouds grow Where you going to be when the trumpets blow? Will you be safe inside the walls of Jericho? Does nobody fall behind the walls of Jericho? Chaverim Kol Israel
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Breach In Your Heart 09:07
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Songs Lyrics My Father - How they hurt you You who loved them enough - to chastise Look how they beat you and imprisoned you You who only wanted to save their lives My Teacher - How they tortured you You who loved them enough to expect more of them Look how they chained you and defamed you You who only wanted to restore them My King - Look how they bloodied you You who wanted them to stop feeling sorry Look how they martyred you - Look how they murdered you You who only wanted to reveal their glory Here is the mystery - Listen to me The picture must develop in the dark Bear this spark in your soul - until it is born Until it breaks through the breach - in your heart Come singers, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Bob Zimmerman This is the one to whom you owe your praise You who were leaders, what now do you follow Can't you see these are the true protest days My eyes - Look how they've blinded me Took them away - Left me groping in the dark There will never be another one like you Who picked us up and carried us through But I'll not lose faith - I'll continue to carry the weight you bore Chorus - Solo My Cherished One - Look how they buried you You who only wanted to brign out their virtue Look how they felt no pain - And still they feel no shame You who brought them life - Even as they buried you My Annointed One - Look how they struck you How they killed you with words - And the penalty that now they've incurred Look how they ran when they saw you come Look how they hid behind the trigger of the gun Look how even now they don't realize - Just who you were (Chorus)
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Nothing New Under The Sun 08:36
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Songs Lyrics You can talk about fighting for your rights I don't care much for rights I'd rather have obligations You can say you've been sold and you want back your gold But you and I know your just a slave of your own temptations You can't lie to me about His-story and Her-story Or My-story Cause you know - I'm a witness Long ago I held the law and you saw and you said You'd rather pursue your own interests You can say your a dove - a terrorist of love But funny how you always exspect me to protect you Instead of gratitude I get an attitude - You say i'm cruel And I'm a bigger fool - Cause I even let you And there's nothing new under the sun - it's all the same Increasing wisdom - Increases pain Well you can talk about unity and you and me and one nation of brotherhood Well that's good but what exactly is the meaning of your mission You say you want to right all the wrongs - you learned your protest songs But was it really he or she or them or it who put you under these conditions You talk about the new world order - You want to remove all the borders Definitions and religions and then maybe you'll be satisfied You want to give rights to everybody even those who don't give rights to others You call them your brothers but the truth is they've really got you terrified Chorus Now the people of the book become the people of the checkbook Blaming all their problems on the only one who really could have saved them The tragedy my friend is what happens now happened then Even so you don't want to know You'd rather make the same mistakes - And pay for them The ones who once revealed the invisible sadly become practitioners of ritual Blaming the stick instead of seeing the hand that shakes it Terrified of what the nations say - Instead of fearing the one to whome they pray Blaming Him for the promise He keeps - While they continually break it And in His anger he sent a King and in His wrath He took him away Because we didn't want to listen to the words he had to say So now were being sentenced Divine glory must be revealed - Upon our flesh it will be sealed Even among those who have not yet - Grasped the meaning of repentence Chorus A Nation comanded to dwell alone - How good it is to be free To study the meaning of the burden that I carry The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the L-rd - He ain't no Santa Clause He carries a sword and brother it's scary You know the missiles will continue to fall if we don't heed the call And return to learn about the beauty of the Kingdom - that we are heir to But some would rather die under this foreign sun than to be What they were born to become - to give of themselves They say no we don't really care to (Chorus)
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Brick By Brick 07:38
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Songs Lyrics Can a light - Be put out Can such a light - Be put out Is that all there is - It's not possible - Such a light Goin to kep your light burning - going to keep it lit Going to build your dream - brick by brick Going to do what I can to carry on To bring your children back to where they belong I'm going to keep your light burning - till every light is lit I'm going to build your dream brick by brick Im going to keep your light burning - till every light is lit I'm going to build your dream brick by brick La,la,la
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Time To Come Home 07:10
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Songs Lyrics When the sleeping volcano starts grumbling And your kingdom is shattered by a stone And the criminal who killed Robert Kennedy He's standing outside your window and my how he's grown And the judge says the house that you built Is no longer your own Well its time - It's time to come home When the guests that you thought would be gratefull Condemn you for all of the gifts that you give And you plead with them to accept your own suicide If only they would allow you just to live They say no we don't want your loan We want everything you own Well its time - It's time to come home Do you ever wonder why it is that your so understanding But the more you try the more you find yourself standing all alone When this fantasy that you thought was going to last forever Turns into a nightmare of fear that you've never known Well its time - It's time to come home When you broke down the barriers between you Just to discover that your really not the same Still desperately you must seek acceptance So they accept you to be the one to blame And they hate you for the seeds that you've sown And for thinking that this land is your own Well its time - It's time to come home When the mistress that you thought you could marry Says first your children you must disown And the dog that you thought was so loyal Bears his teeth every time you throw him a bone They say no we don't want your loan We want everything you own And its time - It's time to come home
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When Truth Goes Out naked 05:11
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Songs Lyrics When truith goes out naked shes hated and scorned Temples are closed down - school children are warned Enemies are united - murderers are freed They all look so holy with their knife up their sleeve When truth goes out naked - shes banned accross the state Those who preach love say for her its ok to hate But behind the angry faces there's a fear and a chill Of what the truth will uncover - the innocent blood they have spilled And those who deal falsely are the ones who really make a fuss Protecting precious justice when they really mean just-us. When truth goes out naked And everybody knows the reason shes been sentenced by the court Because the jokers who rule - they are loosing their support When truth goes out naked Those who try and cover her with clothes she just won't wear They are only trying to hide themselves from something they can't bear When truth goes out naked missiles are engaged Those who are complacent suddenly go flying into a rage Saying do what you must do - just make it look clean And the midgets grind their axes and they call her obscene When truth goes out naked toupees fall from their place Disbelievers know who they are - it's written all over their face They say she's dangerous - she must be silenced now She reveals too much of her figure and she makes us all look like cows When truth goes out naked Oh better not debate her but defame her they cry If your walking on stilts better not look her in the eye When truth goes out naked - they look up from their books They hide behind their beards and they give her dirty looks But the letters fly from the pages and they greet her like a queen They say you who think you know me - you don't even know the 1st thing When truth goes out naked When truth goes out naked - she never really understood They say why don't you lie just a little - your too honest for your own good When truth goes out naked When truth goes out naked - they hide behind the window sill Sometime they don't even realize - just who it was that they killed When truth goes out naked Those who try and cover her with clothes she just won't wear They are only trying to hide themselves from something they can't bear
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The Holocaust 05:18
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Wisdom of Your Ways 09:04
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Songs Lyrics Do you desire to prepare me for the dust of death Do you want your words to cease Do you not like those who are jealous for your love When so many turn from you in retreat Do you have so many suitors - did you ever have such a one as this One who was as beautiful in deed as appearance One who's arrow never missed What is the wisdom of your ways? Do you desire to fade away and leave your children all alone Why did you send your shepherd just to take him When he was leading your flock home Was the crystal meant to be broken Was the perfect piece never ment to fit Some are taken in their time - some are taken right in the midst of it What is the wisdom of your ways Is this what you desire To punish those who warned of your punishment To steal from those who brought thieves to justice To satisfy the bat with the light of the sun What is the wisdom of your ways Do you desire to be a widow - veiled in black and hidden from sight There was one who brought you sweet flowers and sang praises to you each night What is the wisdom of your ways - Is this what you desire To silence the voice that swore we would never be silent again To cut down the tree who stood against the wind and would not bend To destroy the destroyer of your enemies What is the wisdom of your ways Did your nightingale sing to sweetly - was it not meant to be so clear Was the song she sang too simple - too simple for them to hear Do you want to be denied again - who will stand up for your cause We have no hands to grasp - we have only claws What is the wisdom of your ways - Is this what you desire To cut short the life of one who gave his life over to you To remove a rose among thorns when you know there are so few To slaughter the bull that pulled your yoke What is the wisdom of your ways
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Voice of the Timid 04:52
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Song For The Children 05:08
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Dedicated to the living memory of Rabbi Meir David Ben Rav Yechezkel Shraga Kahane HaCohen HaTzaddik HaKodesh L'Vracha who was martyred on the 18th of Chesvan 5751, in the battle to enlarge and glorify the Holy Torah.

"Difficult in the eyes of Hashem is the death of his devout ones."
(Tehillim 116:15)

"The Tzaddik is lost; yet nobody bothers to note what has happened. People of kindness are taken away; yet no one understands. It is because of the evil that approaches, that the Tzaddik is lost. " (Yesha'Yahu 57:1)

"For the priests lips shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek Torah from his mouth, because he is a messenger from the L-rd of hosts."
(Malachi 2:7)

"It is a great sin to disgrace Torah sages or to hate them. Jerusalem was not destroyed until [its inhabitants] disgraced its sages, as implied by [Divrei Hayamim 36:16]. 'And they would mock the messengers of G-d, despise His words, and scoff at His prophets.' - ie they would scorn those who taught His words."
(Rambam, Mishneh Torah II 6:11)

"Therefore O nations, make His people's lot a happy one, for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and He will turn back vengeance upon His enemies, and His people will atone for His world."
(Devarim 32:43)

"Yosef said to his brothers, 'I am Yosef, is my father still alive?" (Bereshit 45:3)

FORWARD TO SIDE II

" And I scattered them among among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; according to their way and their misdeeds did I judge them. And they entered the nations where they came and they profaned My holy name; inasmuch as it was said of them: These are the people of the LORD, and they have out of His land.

But I had pity for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, from where they had come. Therefore say to the house of Israel: So says the L-rd G-d: Not for your sake do I do this, O house of Israel, but for My Holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which they have come.

And I will sanctify My Great Name, which was profaned among the nations,which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the L-RD - is the declaration of the L-rd G-d - when I will be sanctified through you before their eyes.

For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and I will bring you into your own land. And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean; from all your impurities and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My spirit within you, and bring it about that you will walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances, and do them.

Then will you dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you will be a people to Me, and I will be to you as a G-d. ... And I will resettle the cities, and the ruins shall be built up. And the desolate land shall be worked...And they shall say: 'This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden; and the cities that were destroyed and desolate and pulled down have become settled as fortified cities.'

And the nations that are left round about you shall know that I the L-RD have built up the ruined places, and planted the desolate ones; I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.

Yechezkiel (36:19-36)

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released October 26, 1991

ALBUM CREDITS

Special thanks to Joshua Benchetrit, who came like a messenger from Hashem to guide me through this project and to accompany me on the ancient harp of David Hamelech. To Noah Zacharin whose soulful guitar added Heavenly sounds mixed with fire.

Thanks to Hersh Goodwilling for his creative genious and for his chessed. To Yacov and Chava who inspired the title track, to my dear friend Reuvain Benshimon, who measures the oil, measure for measure, with a menorah that approaches perfection. To all those who ate at my Shabbos table, to my succa, and of course to Rabbi Meir Kahane (z'tl) who made me a Jew.

Recorded during the winter months at the Music Gallery. Mixed in the spring at Jay's Space Station. All songs Copyright 1991 Ron Wiseman.

This tape was completed on the 18th of Chesvan 5752 (1991)

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