Wednesday, December 14, 2016

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…

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