TRACK 3 - LIFT UP YOUR VOICE

This is chronologically the first song written for the album. Back in the summer of 2015 when I was getting ready to perform in my first Rock Hashanah service, I was reading through some of the meanings and prayers behind Mi Chamocha, a prayer I really wanted to put into a new setting. Knowing how powerful a simple "Ya lai lai..." can be, I came up with this melody for the congregation to sing along to and included a Bach/The Doors style organ line during the prayer as well. These are the lyrics to "Lift Up Your Voice".

3. LIFT UP YOUR VOICE

God said you’ve stayed long enough in this place

Time to go forward to the future turn your face

Now is the time to come alive, believe that you can cross this sea and survive

Lift up your voice and sing a new song

Lift up your voice and sing a new song here with me

Lift up your voice and sing with me

Ya lai lai lai…

Deep inside you is a Moses standing here

Miriam dancing deep within you have no fear

Now is the time to come alive, believe that you can cross this sea and survive

Lift up your voice and sing a new song

Lift up your voice and sing a new song here with me

Lift up your voice and sing with me

Ya lai lai lai…

Mi Chamocha ba-elim adonai, Mi Chamocha ne-edar bakodesh

Norah t’hi-lot oseh feleh, oseh feleh

Lift up your voice and sing a new song

Lift up your voice and sing a new song here with me

Lift up your voice and sing with me

Ya lai lai lai…