Lyrics
"HipHopShabbat" CD
BimBomb :: Shemama :: Oseh Shalom :: Shalom Aleichem :: Challah
Passover Hits
Dayenu :: Mah Neeshthana :: Get Down Moses (Let My People Flow)
Chanukkah Classics
Sevivon :: Macabee :: Ma Otzur
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all lyrics © "HipHopShabbat" Crew 2004-2008
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"HipHopShabbat" CD
BimBomb (performed by Jonathan Gutstadt and Sam Siegel)
Bim Bam
Bim Bam Bim Bim Bim Bam, Bim Bim Bim Bim Bim Bam
Cherry Berry Mary
BimBomb BimBomb my song when the time comes
It’s the 7th night, son, grab the mic with the minyan
Bringing in the Sabbath with an ancient niggun
Remembering my tribe when I vibe a Hassidic tune
And light up the candles, up on the mantle,
Kidshanu l’hadlik ner goes the prayer
To embrace the Esh Kadesh
7 nights and 7 days- the blaze of Creation, El-him’s meditation
For our situation right Now
I vow, to endow the youth with the truth
Of the aura of light, from the Torah we write
It’s only morally right, so we’re holding it tight
Observing this night, the might of Hashem
We blessed the rest, and now there est no problem
Love all men and women, that is my religion
A free will decision to increase my vision
We’ve risen from the prison of time/space-ism
With Shabbat Shalom as the home of our wisdom
BimBomb…
Thank Heaven for the family and friends I was sent.
The charm on my neck shows what I really meant
No need to disguise cause my name is not Kent
I don’t do lent but occasionally I do get sent
Back in the day drinkin’ grape juice,
But now I drink wine and I ride some too (not at same time)
Baruch hashem v’hinei matovu
Chaverim b’vakesha bau otzleinu
Oseh Shalom v’kol aleinu
Tikvateinu Ad-nai Eloheinu
It’s Friday night, Erev Shabbat
I’m at the Shabbos table I got Pops at the head,
Telling a fable, I got Moms at the other end,
Keepin it stable, Baruch atah Ad-nai borei p'ri hagaafen
Praying for survival of Yerushalyaim
Baruch atah Ad-nai eloheinu haolam
Comin’ at you with the straight BimBomb
BimBomb…
BimBam Bim Bam- My native tongue diminished
Bam Bim Bam Bim- I Said My people spoke Yiddish
BimBamBimBam- Shalom Salaam
BamBimBamBim- Harmony to All Men (x2)
BamBimBamBimBamBam- Shabbat Shalom to the Jews in the Holy Land!
BimBamBimBamBimBamBim- Shalom to the Jews in exile as Americans! (x2)
Well this is what me and the OJGs gon’ do
We gonna light up the candle like a Kosher Jew
And sip on a/the cup of the Fresh grape Juice
Being grateful for the Life our God gave you (x2)
Barchu/Shmama (performed by Jonathan Gutstadt and Elana Jagoda)
Barcu et Ad-nai, hamevorach
Baruch, Ad-nai hamevorach, hamevorach l’olam va’ed.
Hamevorach Hamevorach, l’olam vaed.
This one goes out to my family…
What’s up Yisrael, and everybody else who’s under a spell?
There’s no sides under God’s eyes.
Time to have a little fun with it,
You know there’s only 1 God and I’m lovin’ It.
Shma Yisrael Ad-nai Eloheinu, Ad-nai echad (x4)
Shma to the music, shma to the Jew kids.
Shma to the HipHopShabbat, whattup?
Sundown to sunup, Jewish people come up
Shma Yisrael, Ad-nai is One Love
Praying for some good luck, I feel it in my stomach
We can help the Yisraelim with a dream
To stop the killing, hear the heart beat resonating
There’s a life that’s worth creating.
Shma, stop the hating!!!
Where’s the modern-day emancipation?
Where’s the conversation with the pharoah,
saying “Let go!” Let go of my flow for sho’
I’m on an exodus, next bus running bio-diesel
Shma to the people in the temple and the steeple
Shma to the evil and the good be equal
But shema to yourself, first and foremost
Let’s have a toast to the Earth who’s such a great host!
Shma to the Ma, Amma - Ahavah
Shma to the Pa, Abba with the Kabbalah (x2)
Shma to the melody of hagiladi
Shma to the remedy of the Heavenly
Shma to the idea we’re all one tribe
Shma to the Original Jewish Gangster vibe
Shma to those living and those that have died
Shma ‘cause you’re generations have multiplied
Shma to the most High, even the most Low,
Shma to both sides they can both be right.
Baruch shem kevod, shem kevod malchuto, l’olam vaed (x4)
Shma to the Momma, non-stop manna
From the center of the lava, hava nagila
I’m a believer from Oakland to Tel Aviva
In a diva unified like an ameoba
Shma to your imas, Shma to the abbas
Shma to the Doctor J, love the Shabbos
The 7th day, I pray to be jobless
All you Jewish kids better listen to your mamas.
Baruch shem kevod, shem kevod malchuto, l’olam vaed (x2)
Adonai Echad!!!
God is One like the Sun and Moon rotation, being spun I listen to the Universe hummmm (x4)
Shma to the Ima-mamamamamamama, mamamamamamamamamamamama
Shma to the Aba-bababababababa, babababababababababababa
Shma Yisrael, Adonai eloheinu, adoanai echad.
Oseh Shalom (performed by Doctor J (Yo-Natan
, intro by Sam)
Oseh Shalom Bimromav, hu yaseh Shalom aleinu
V’al kol Yisrael, v’imru, v’imru Amen.
Oseh Shalom Doctor J from the Bay Zone
Watch me get my blaze on God of creation.
Baruch atah adonai lai lai lai
Burning in the Bush, yeah Moshe in the Sinai
Watching Jah herd hearin’ words from the most High
Adonai zevatai tif’tach, ufi yagid tilatecha
Word, sound, power, I wanna’ b’shlomecha.
Rastaman, like Solomon and Hanuman, Amritanandamayi
Rastabodhistava aloha to those in Kuaui
Like Kikola gotta’ flow, mahalo
Sabbath princess I wanna be your prince
I wanna give praise when the 6th day sets
I live to see the day when the evil America
pays it’s debts, to the rest of the Earth’s guests, and
Under-handed schemes are disbanded
The commandement is respect the planet
Plant the roots and thank the fruits and
Preach Shalom on the microphone!!! (x2)
Oseh Shalom…
Oseh Shalom we be tones in the sea fome
Seeds in the E-lome, the true God can’t be known
Like a weed grown where it don’t belong
Israel is seen wrong the violence does ping pong
Let’s have a singsong, kick a little bimbam
Have compassion for each other’s actions
I thank the Lord of peace and not war ‘cause
I and I know that we got to have some More Luv!
What of the future with peace for each other?
This is the new truth we have to discover
It sucks to judge one man ‘gainst the other
Culture is dinner being cooked by your Mother!
Oseh Shalom…
Before the Sabbath we’re just a white rabbit
Working is the habit, the clock is the dragnet.
But Shabbos magic breaks up the stagnate
We’re on the planet and time is the magnet
And 7 days synchronize with Heaven’s rays
In several ways, that I can’t even describe today
7 days synchronize with Heaven’s rays
I’m giving praise, ‘cause it’s a mystery of being in space.
Life resonates, like 7 gates in present states
Pleasant waves for present slaves who’s present wage
Is too low no mucho gusto, busco por un descanzo sabado
Vida debe barato, el reloj me hace cansado
Es muy malo y que rapido, tiempo natural es mas chido!
Oseh Shalom…
O-Seh-Sha-Lom (repeats until end)
Shalom Aleichem (Performed by Jonathan Gutstadt and Elana Jagoda)
Shalom Aleichem, malachei hasharet
Malachei el elyon
Mi melech malachei hamlachim
Hakadosh Baruch Hu
Boachem l’shalom malachei hashalom
Malachei el elyon
Mi melech malachei hamlachim
Hakadosh baruch Hu
Shalom to the Most High, King Adonai
Angels do a fly-by and they’re yelling “Get Chai!”
It’s kodesh, time for some Chofesh
The Challah is so fresh, How I just love the Sabbath process
Of entering the Holy state of Her Presence
Lecha Dodi is shalom’s true essence
I kick back and check the Torah’s new lessons
As time goes by it just intensifies the message
So protect us oh Angels of the Highest One
As we celebrate this date, another week is done
So recline, right after you drink this wine
See this time is a gift from the mind of the Divine
L’Chaim, it’s your bar-mitzvah,
Yonatan droppin’ these rhymes with some chutzpah
Wearing my kippah, maybe a tallis
See there’s no way that my tribe could be demolished
Barchuni l’shalom malachei hashalom
Malachei el elyon
Mi melech malachei hamlachim
Hakadosh Baruch Hu
Tzetchem l’shalom malachei hashalom
Malachei el elyon
Mi melech malachei hamlachim
Hakadosh baruch hu
The King of Kings, avinu malkeinu
Gave us bravery to bust out of slavery “Dayenu”
We may do things wrong but show us some mercy
Like when the water sprung out of the rock, we were thirsty
A miracle of life like breathing oxygen
The secret’s hard to find kind of like a foxes den
Obnoxious men confuse Jews and the greedy
But a true Jew sees that all can be needy
So a true Jew picks up the seeds and starts seeding
So generation after generation will be eating
Believing in the good of all humans
We’ve lived with the Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans
Muslims, Christians, Pagans, and desert nomads
Our God is the same, it’s insane to get so mad.
Shalom Aleichem, malachei hasharet
Malachei el elyon
Mi melech malachei hamlachim
Hakadosh Baruch Hu
Boachem l’shalom malachei hashalom
Malachei el elyon
Mi melech malachei hamlachim
Hakadosh baruch Hu
Challah (performed by the HipHopShabbat Crew)
Hamotizi lechem min haaretz, we give thanks to God for bread. Our voices join in happy chorus as our prayer is humbly said, “Baruch atah adonai, eloheinu melech haolam, hamotzi lechem min haaretz. Amen.”
Challah at a playa’ with the dough home made
Hit the soft layer of the three part braid.
Remember in the days of the ghetto, we weren’t paid
But now we see we up in the meadow, you can’t fade
Melt the blade to a plowshare plant some more food bra’
Gotta’ feed the family hungry Lion of Judah
Walk out the house and I kiss the mezuzah.
Walk in the house and I kick my shoes off.
Turn on the oven and I smell the food bake,
It’s getting hot in here like a BBQ steak.
Throw me some dough and watch me make a cake,
It’s a young Jewish brother chillin’ up from the lake, and
It’s a mistake to mess with my tribe,
There’s only One God and He’s on our side.
Why you disrespectin’ on the Sabbath Bride?
Can’t you let the love of the One inside?
Challah at these Jewish ballers, OJGs with the recipe for
Tasty pastries, we lace these doughs with the flows of Moses. (x2)
Challah, boi kallah, OJGs with the recipe from Prussia to Russia,
With a crust so sweet, fresh wheat to the beat.
40 years Sinai desert Hahsem knew it was tough.
Dropped Moshe the manna, he saw it was enough,
Metaphorically speaking, what does this manna teach us?
Hashem delivers miracles on the daily to reach us,
So please just, say no to fluff,
no to air dough puffed, No to flakey white stuff,
and Yes to the best stuff in ha'olam,
Eat my challah, and say “you got the bomb”
Cause although, I don't make a lot of dough,
I still break bread, And ya know' I got a lot mo' to go'
To feed the billions dying of hunger, starving,
Baruch hashem, hometzi lechem min ha'aretz,
Blessed is the manna delivered to the prophet,
All different types of challah, ya'll know I rock it,
Sweet Mini challahs with chocalate chips
Call me butter, girl, and sop me up with a biscuit
Achoti, Achoti roll with me,
Focus on a Jewish baller, come with me,
Wish we could have Shabbat every day,
Wish we could lisachek (play) in the Bay,
Know our chaalim (soldiers) you just can't fade,
Realize habanot bearetz are so yafe
Chillin' with the OJGs in the studio,
Dr.J hooked it up with the Semetic flow.
Challah, at a Jewish balla’…
They like to call me butter cause I'm on a roll,
My rebbe says that’s sacriligious, but that’s getting old,
And after all I say nothin’s too sacred,
Cause I bear my whole soul when I bake bread naked,
Break bread, love making, double mitzva on shabbat,
Challah at the Sabbath Queen on shabbat kabbalat.
Like chocolate, eat-drink and man-woman,
I heat your challah dream in my wood brick oven.
You gotta’ love the Challah of it’s chocolate chip
And you know I love the flavor of the honey dip
If you didn’t get a piece tonight, well don’t trip
There’s shabbos for the rest of your life, it won’t skip
This bread represent the sustenance of Heaven
From the Creator who works with increments of 7
I eat it when it’s fluufy and when it’s unleavened
And I pray for World Peace like I was Aviv Geffen.
Who’s that sweating in the sweaty hot kitchen
It’s your grandma baking up the food for the children
Mixing up the flower and the eggs and the batter
Grandma got the power to make you live fatter
My family took care of me and I’m gladder
When a person’s hungry, the soul gets sadder
I can’t wait to feel the small piece of glass shatter
Under my foot so we can cook and fill the platter
Achoti Achoti Yaffa sheli
Achoti Achoti Come Boi Etzli
Achoti Achoti Only Blooms for me
Achoti Achoti You can be my family
Achoti Achoti A Desert mystery
Achoti Achoti Marreshet Blee Oti
Achoti Achoti B’Oakland B’Tel Aviv
Achoti One love from the OJGs
Hamotzi…
From reform to Chassidic, don’t stop get it get it
It’s comin any minute, redemption, We did it!
When we live it challah, we giving it to Ramallah
We got enough bread for all the children of Allah
Feeling, taller when we share our rations
There’s only one G-d and we’re all one nation
There’s no such place as a reservation
Blessed are You, Source of Creation.
Passover Hits
Dayenu (performed by Jonathan Gutstadt and Sam Siegel)
Dayenu, let me rock the Hebrew
Or should I sat Ivrit when I bump to the Beat?
5000 years or so since they had to go
From the Land of Mitzraim through the Mayim
To haaretz ha etz, mi micha mocha?
Ani ohev atah, ze lyla, ma nishtana?
I got light like Chanukkah, I love Purim
Walkin in the O sporting Jewish decorum
Mostly a magen David
And I always recognize the 7-day week
Creature of Habit and I feature the Sabbath
Spring is for Pesach and not just for rabbits
It’s a story to remember
And you know I’m grateful for my ancestors
Break me off with some matzah
Kicking it with my patnas
Wishing my messiah would come like the Rastas’
DaiDayenu DaiDayenu DaiDayenu Dayenu Dayenu (x2)
Get up Stand up, One thing on my mind
Walking to work, through all this funky grime
Wasting my time, sitting in an office
Moshe, the Prophet, said “Get up on it”
Forgettin I own, existing alone
Avoiding home, living on the phone
Waiting for the tone, you might go deft
But make a left when it all seems right
Enjoy the day when you’re up all night.
Accept the Land. Reject the spite.
Embrace the Light take up the fight
Within yo’self and be yo’self
Love yo’self put the rest on the shelf
Nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Dayenu…
Yeah much love goes to the Family, Mom and Dad I love you, Ben, Leon,
To all the ojgs past and present peace to Shneeze, Butter, big Noots where you at?
Big cousin Mike, the super fresh k%#@ (OJGs reserve the right to reclaim anti-semetic phrases), Uncle Dan, Uncle jonathan, uncle jesse, all my aunts, my grandparents. gotta live much love to mister, to mister Too Short
The one who taught me all that nasty nast that we call rap
Oh yeah and before I forget, One Love to the OJGs. we out, Peace.
Get Down Moses (Let My People Flow) (performed by Jonathan Gutstadt)
Let my people flow.
I jumped out the reeds to proceed with good deeds
Ain’t gonna’ raise my kids in slavery
Let’s end this hypocrisy, with some love
We need to be fly like the high peace dove
Or did you forget about the 10 commandments
Why you wanna fight and be the last man standing
Pharoah is a corporation, rich and greedy
Usin all the workers will they’re tired and bleeding
The pharoah spends money on a big military
And what he does to the people is scary.
I say we exodus on the next bus home
Go back to Zion ecological dome in the forest
With the family tree, shma to my fam gone from Germany
But they can’t exterminate me cause I see
That love is the only way we can be free.
Get down Moses, way down in Egypt’s land.
Tell old Pharoah, “Let my people flow!”
America is Egypt, cause we live in abundance
On the backs of many others, with mothers
In struggles to survive, be thankful for those
Who help you stay alive, and share their education
Be patient, do what you can to help the Jewish nation
Cause Israel stands alone, Shalom,
Not being blown to bits, use your wits.
There’s lunatics, droppin bombs even on Ramadan
And I’m not just talking about Islam.
I’m talking bout any person that’s doing harm
Like George Bush, murder, down on the farm.
In Texas, on death row like Jethro
I represent and remember the Jewish ghetto.
In Warsaw, nobody even foresaw,
The power of a oil war, what you fightin’ for?
Get down Moses, way down in Egypt land
Tell old Pharoah, “Let my people flow!”
See Egypt is mitzraim, in your mind
It’s about time that we stop lying
To ourselves about our beliefs
It’s time to wake up the peeps
Not round up the sheeps
For more slaughter, the world’s running out of water
While we think we can’t change but I know we’re smarter
Even the martyr Yehoshua’s born of your line
Seems like they wanna’ kill our ass one more time
I dine, like the last supper
Thinking bout people making exodus, life got rougher
Tougher, care for all those who suffer
And need a safety buffer so they don’t kill each other
The ghetto’s in the psyche, let go of the nike,
Don’t even watch the nightly news, it’s not reported rightly
They can bite me, what they say about Israel’s unsightly.
Get down Moses, way down in Egypt land
Tell old Pharoah, “Let my people flow!”
When Israel was in Egypt’s land, let my people flow
Oppressed so hard they could not stand, let my people flow. (x4)
Get down Moses, way down in Egypt land
Tell old Pharoah, “Let my people flow!”
Mah Neesthanah (written by Yo-Natan)
Ma neesthana ha lyla hazeh
Why do we drink our tears with the parslay
On all other nights we don't even dip
But tonight we dip twice so don't trip
The Israelites were slaves in Egypt
How many building blocks did we lift
Sweat and tears blends into saltwater
We lost the firstborn sons and the daughters
So many of people in the casket
Moshe the prophet was saved by the basket
Well our storyis just so dang sad
Many years of fear have been had
From the tribe of Levi to the tribe of Gad
They kill Jews as though loving G-d is bad
Why they hate us, I don't understand
I guess it's all a part in the heart of God's plan
If there wasn't evil what we stand
up against violence raise up your hand
Ma neeshtana ha lyla hazeh
Why do we eat matza instead of leavened bread
On all other nights we eat yeast
But tonight we have matzah at the feast
Running out of Egypt from the Babylon Beast
Hoping that the miracles and wonders never cease
Moses was the leader you could call him the chief
We started on the exodus cause we had to leave
But going to the desert wasn't much of a relief
The bread was on our backs while we walked through the reef
Red Sea Reed Sea remember it for eternity
Livin free Yisraelim Micha mocha baelim
adonai most high pillar of fire close by
Recollecting of trekking and wreckin in the Sinai
This very second have perspective free your minds eye
Look at your inner slave master and say byebye
Lhitraot fool bouncing to the new school
OJG Jewish Gangster original
Ma neeshtana ha lyla hazeh
Why do eat bitter herbs not other veggies
On all other nights we eat any vegetable
But tonight we eat maror at the festival
It makes my eyes water and makes my nostril swell
The mystery of these rituals is ineffable
I guess the ten plagues caused quite an uproar
Thank God we put the lamb's blood on the door
And then we cut out of town while they all snored
But then we didn't know what to do at the Sea Shore
Moses was freaking out, he talked to Miriam
We were so tired and I know we had delirium
And then a vision had arisen and appeared to him
picked up his staff and we saw the division then
We were so bitter at that moment broken hearted
But when the water subsided and the sea parted
We knew the life of the Hebrew had just started
Hashem has got our back and that's why we're all guarded
Ma neeshtana ha lyle hazeh
Why do we all kick back in such a major way?
On all other nights we sit straight
But tonight we lay back with our full weight
I can remember the dilemma to the very date
5765 since we left the narrow gate
We had to bounce listen as I tell the pharoah late
We had to drop 10 plagues cause you player hate
he had to let us go to walk right through the straight
we all deserve to reflect and commemorate
It's time to relax and kick back and recline
Grab up a pillow so you will not hurt your spine
There was an order when we crossed the border crossed the line
And sang praises so it resonates in our mind
600000 crossing to the wilderness
It's more famous than the epic of Gilgamesh
My Jewish people your free will is still the best
But You need to lay down stay down and take a rest
Chanukkah Classics
Sevivon (With raps written by Yo-Natan)
Chorus:
Sevivon, Sov, Sov, Sov,
Chanukkah, Hu Chag Tov
-Insert- (Traditional Song) "Chanukkah O Chanukkah"
Come light the Menorah etc...
Verse 1:
Turn it up like a Sevivon
Heart of a Levi son
Hate isn’t any fun
So I love everyone
Temple of Solomon
Gotta keep the light on
Hellenistic government
Wants to keep the fight on
Tried to put the fire out
Can’t quench a Maccabee
Pride is what I’m about
God is in back a me
Why you trying to sac me and tackle me
Smack me and shackle me in the name of
Zeus and his faculty?
Sevivon, Sov, Sov, Sov...
Verse 2:
The Greeks tried kick me out
my very own Polis
But they didn’t have clout
I’m related to Moses
So we took back the fortress
from tzion to scopus
See the oil was gone
and it all seemed hopeless
But In the attack
they missed one vat,
deep in the back
we took advantage of that
Now the concern
How long will it burn
and Will they return
in time to fill up the urn?
Chorus
Verse 3
At the end of the first day
We feared in the worst way
The fire would be thirstay
Lord have mercy!
We waited in anguish
And prayed in the language
It made me so anxious
It didn’t extingiush
Without the replacement
We watched in amazement
It was day 8 when
Menorah was blazing
Ad-nai we’re praising
for the miracle saving
said the light never gave in
Can I get an Amen?
I'M A MACABEE (Performed by Yo-Natan)
Chorus:
I'm a macabee I'm a macabee
gonna save my people from catastrophe
and erase this case of blasphemy
yes this is the way it has to be
I'm a macabee I'm a macabee
got my homie hashem in back of me
I'm tired of all these oppressors attacking me
We gotta get some more oil from the factory
Verse1:
Well my name is Yo-Natan Macabee
and i lived around 170 BCE
with my brother Yehuda
and my father matisyahu
we revolted for freedom (Why?)
because we gots to
save the temple from the hellenistic
government coming so masochistic
sacking the temple with all their greed
but they couldn't put out the ner tamid
Verse2:
Well they banned Jewish worship and it did provoke us
it was time to battle with Antiochus
They took over the temple and they thought they broke us
my people fled to Judea so we could focus
and we led the revolt against the phony men
who were in the temple cooking baloney when
we came back to yerushalem
so we kicked em all out and began again
Verse3:
Nes Gadol to the Haya Sham
Matisyahu killed an uncle tom
jews don't worship at the parthenon
and we won't eat beef with parmesian
tell your king i will not eat your idol
and i won't praise pig in my recital
cause the living G-d King is way too vital
and the high priest of israel is my title
Verse4:
Well my brother yehuda
was so courageous
his rebelliousness was so contagious
fighting straight up against the tyrants rages
he was saving the memory of jewish sages
it's just too bad that he died in battle
so you've got to remember and light a candle
we've always survived this kind of scandal
there ain't nothing that our people can't handle
Ma Otzur (written by Yo-Natan and Lion of Judah)
Ma-O-Tzur Y’shu-A-Ti
L’cha Na-e L’sha-Be-Ach
Ti-kon Bet T’fi-La-Ti
V’shom Toda N’za-Be-Ach
L’et To-Chim Mat-Be-Ach
Mi-Tzar Ha-M’na-Be-Ach
Az Egmor B’shir Miz-Mor
Chanucan Ha-Miz-Be-Ach
Az Egmor B’shir Miz-Mor
Chanican Ha-Miz-Be-Ach
On Chanukkah we give it up to our Rock and our Redeemer
Saved up our Abba and saved up our imma
Judah Macabeah built a big fat team a
brothers who recovered Yerushalayima
got to the bima and the love was contagious
now we giving thanks to the rock of all ages
freed us from the people trying to put us in cages
sometimes I think history is outrageous
ma otzur yeeshuati
he be the rock so we be the free (x2)
he be the tree and we be the leaves
he be the shield of the macabees
he be the elephant we be the fleas
he be heavenly with magen davids
she be the honey and we be the bees
she is the cure and the remedies
she is the door and we are the keys
she is the the mother putting me at ease |
