Music

I rarely listen to music, very seldom, averagely a week I listen to less than an hour of radio, that also because I'm in a car and that the car music is on. But I'm very fond of this singer, Matisyahu, a Jewish reggae, for the meaning of his lyrics. Much more meaningful than pop songs now which circles around love song, and listeners listen until they think they have the same feeling as the singer they adore, when the singer and lyricist is not the same person. ==

How well I know about about music? Shallow.

Do I know how to distinguish between good music and lousy music? No, I din.

How well do I know about the Jews? Shallow.

Matisyahu songs lyrics is mostly circles around how a Jew running away from those who hunt them down, what they face, what's their hope.

Adaptation from his various song lyrics (i only type part of

it, would be better if you go search for the song in Youtube, and search for its lyrics while listen):

Smash Lies: strive to be alive most everyday/some piece of mind from the daily grind/no need to feed on the scraps of the enemy

We Will Walk: I told her you must go you can't stay here she said I know since the death blow/my soul's been old like sand I'm so tired its like

my spirit expired/ remember when i was just a child now i feel like star a daybreak bout to expire and get lost in the sun/ me and you we got to leave and run and run, run and run away we can't stay

One Day: sometimes in my tears i drown but i never let it down so when negativity surrounds i know someday it'll all turn around because/ all my life I've been waiting for I been praying for/for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more/ they'll be no more wars/and our children will play/ One day/ Its not about win or lose cause we all lose when they feed on the souls of innocent drenched pavement

Escape: Its the great escape, we got to sneak away, when they look away, we'll just fade away/ running through the forest and I'm running through the woods running my whole life running like i should I'm running for survival and running from the rifle running from the bible blood libels and false idols

So Hi So Low: I don't know where but we got to got to go there

I Will Be Light: Yes i am a slave searching for some freedom searching from some freedom so intend to sing them songs to spark, memories what is a man with no history? where am I? who am i? what is this place? Beside you, many died in the name vanity many die in their mind's eye for justice we die for you And still do so i say to you this is nothing new

For You: they flee from themselves and they can't understand they burn humanity in their search to be free but freedom's not for sale/ when you run for the moonlight to dance on a ray and become what you knew to be true but the time flew by you been searching for a reason why

On Nature: We are men of nature We are made from the earth At the end of my eighty I'll return to the dirt Just sand Just rock Dry land Vast silent Only being Only breathing We're just children of believers

Motivate: I ran from BK to Japan from Israel to the Holy Land/ Would you leave it all behind revelation wake in the morning to find you waiting even in a desperation feel something that's embracing/ wake in the morning even in a desperation even in this desperation even in a desolation/ Catch the arrows filled with poison

Struggla: We pay the cost the pain and all the loss of a struggla/ there's something wrong in a system that leaves its children victim a part of the plan

Silence: (in Hebrew) "let it be your will that my words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart come before you, God my rock my redeemer"/ I will crush my fantasy, bring me olive oil crushed for his majesty to shine a warmth into eternity/ bring my broken heart to an invisible King with a hope one day you might answer me so I pray don't you abandon me your silence kills me/ its so heavy a heavy price to pay your silence.