Yisroel Arye

Let's say everyone's looking at you Say everyone's doing what you want them to do I'll tell you a secret that's for her ears to hear it To sigh away And sigh away The Trial I've gone away a long time behind you I've tried to do what you want me to do Could not believe it That she knew our secret To sigh away And sigh away The Trial I want nothing from you Nothing you wanted me not to want too I need all of you touched by the wind What your skin hides within It's your skin that is scaring me That is tearing me Out of my own I've had lifetimes to satisfy you Until even the nighttime is satisfied too It's just for a moment that our two hands can hold it To sigh away And sigh away The Trial you know when times get tough What you got ain't enough hard times bringing you down a little sigh'll bring you to higher ground

On your own for the first time Holding court beside a stream They let you go up on the mountain Until you disappeared in green Forge of fire has given birth To a sword of golden twine Mirror sees me facing her Naked river flowing wine Somebody told me that freedom for you No longer held such gripping fascination Why don't you let your old fears slip away Meet me at the subway station This helpless day An empty palate on which I paint The scenes I see around you Through a mist of passing rain When time takes on the rhythm Of an open spinning cage Are you waiting for me Momma Like a bookmark on the page Where we'll read that freedom for you May once again hold thorough fascination Why don't you let your old fears slip away Meet me at the subway station Inspiration sister Brother drowning in the sea Find hidden shores beneath our feet To step on casually Time stretches on before me Sometimes rolling down the hill Whatever your impression I'll keep on rolling 'til You tell me that freedom is for you A pervasive spark of good old fascination Why don't you let your old fears slip away Meet me at the subway station

So you’re sitting by yourself Have your heart up on a shelf Never beating ‘til you show some folks around Just as everything with breath Wish to live with no regret As it was before the common world knocked you down While pretending to be a brother Now before you get all sad Over something that you never had Take a look at what’s in front of you no longer Do you see a man that’s brave For at least the time he’s not afraid Of the heart that’s now been taken down And passed around to the blade they prepare for slaughter And his dreams are all he has Until you call me Hear me say I wish you’d call me Tell me that every thing’s OK Well hello there my old friend How’ve I been I didn’t know you cared I’ve been thinking about sowing some seeds this spring Just like everything you said These words they rattle round my head I’m still working on my masterpiece Just like Van Gogh and Charlie Parker And their dreams are all they had Why don’t you call me Hear me say Why don't you call me I can almost hear you say I never left you slipped away Just like water down the drain In a steady stream That now flows cold and slow I may not deserve the best But I cannot bear this test How can I serve you If you leave me so alone Why don’t you call me I’ll be pleasing you at home

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Work by day back by night Before dawn to treat you right Oh, Loving by Moonlight Got a hunger you fulfill Left my keys on your windowsill Oh, while the Moon shines clear and still Moonlit trees Moonlight songs I feel the need to linger on Take my heart don’t give it back Until you get your fill Gaze at me with both eyes shut Feel your body waking up Oh, pour your Moonlight in my cup Treacherous seas we’ll shake it off Bitter winds blown by frost Oh, is the Moon alone enough Moonlit trees Moonlight songs Still the need to linger on Taking hearts won’t pull back This emptiness you feel Sudden breeze reaches us Cools the fever feeling lost Oh, used the Moonlight at what cost Through gazing eyes connection broken We take our leave no kind words spoken Oh, while the Moon shines on the ocean Moonlit trees Moonlight songs There is no need to linger on You took my heart won’t give it back Until you get your fill Work by day back by night Before dawn to treat you right Oh, Loving by Moonlight

I sat down to gaze at your painting I never got over These tears fill my belly I’m a traveller held at the border Shut in a room with these gifts I should never have bought her There’s a coffee stained dress and this crumb she just brushed off her shoulder I woke up this morning to see you asleep in my bedroom I’ve just made the same mistake you’ve seen me make over and over Can’t seem to shake this old feeling common sense says I oughta Been willing to wait twenty years I can't wait so much longer As a point of consolation she is waiting for you son Not immune to hesitation I don’t want to shoot no one I’ve had dreams the sky is turning towards the golden light of dawn Even as this shroud envelops and I’m plagued by mortal harm The enemy crafty and cunning has been inwardly revealed While I earn my bread by the sweat of my head she entices me to steal Took a tour and the street where I searched was well lit and abandoned You extended your hand to a man who had lost all his children Can no longer remember why some people just can’t be forgotten I just wanted to tell you you’re beautiful just like your daughter

Have you ever held a candle in your hand While peeking through a crevice in the sand bearing witness to a vision too compelling to withstand Nechama why'd you come back again Out driving in the country with a friend We watch you disappearing round the bend Momma cries into the mailbox Each letter you do not send Nechama why'd you come back again Still believe that while you're all alone You'd think to pick up the phone Where the road out meets the rider Do you save yourself for the right man Or end up with your back on the wrong bed Did you ever grab a lever as you ran Watched a sliding steel door exit opening And your memory of the vision A good place for you to land Nechama why'd you come back again

I met a man as he was breathing All across the barren land He showed me how to be fruitful As I take my final stand Oh, I don't plan to leave you here But I will do as I must Step on a New York highway Past fields of fire and rust I've seen Kedeira in a dream I've seen Kedeira in a dream Trading skin like water Turns bones grey unlike before Yes, I like the lifestyle you furnished As you showed me the exit door This war leaves no survivors Who know what they're surviving for Night carried away by the calling Back to you I'm drawn even more I've seen Kedeira in a dream I've seen Kedeira in a dream When I come up on my fortune I'll remember You've been kind to me While I sit in the corner Recovering from a bender I still remember what I'm meant to be Folded in forbidden smiles An expedition cast aside Your love affair with this soldier Got lost in the timeless a while Dark precious hours Are eating my flesh away I tossed my prayer into the wind I'll win you back someday I've seen Kedeira in a dream I've seen Kedeira in a dream

Terrific explosions of experience And the masters of all things take token hands with knobs to turn respond to my demands And if ever I tread lightly And forget my name and birth There’s a heart that’s open Broadcast soaking Buried in the earth Humility courage In the drifting soils of time Send brightly meaning verses Blending in my body’s mind And the tortures of experiencing Arguments and strife Do not prevent the seeking man From rescuing his wife Yisroel Arye - Electronic Drums,...

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