Splash
(2008)

1 - porque estamos aqui (because we're here)
[tango]

Todo el Mercado
Toda la charla y sonado

Todas las mujeras
todos los hombres esperan en linea
todos los rifles todas las balas hola mundo
esta es vaquero
Que rompe tu espina dorsal?

CHORUS
Humpty dumpty humpty dumpty

Se sento en una pared
Humpty dumpty humpty dumpty
Tuvo una gran caida
Alguien digales
No estamos matando mas
Nio estamos marchando donde quiera
Porque estamos aqui
Porque estamos aqui
Porque estamos aqui

Tambien muchas balas
muchas perspectivas mal vadas

Demasiado dinero que persigue la Guerra
por las defense
Demasiado propaganda
Y paises desinformados
Y mucha gente asesinada
A nuestro costo

CHORUS

Entonces dame tu cansancio
tus masas apiniadas anhelando respirar libres

Yo tomo lo que quiero
Todo lo que quiero es un sentido de igualidad
manten tu propaganda
lejos de la daga de el hecho
y cuidado con lo que dice senor
los villanos se apunalan a si mismos en la espalda

CHORUS

 

2 - mica-moca (who could be greater)
[tango]

Los soldados marchan como cienpies
Hace ciento diez grados
Esta escrito en el Coran: tomar a cien
Por cada uno que haya sido tomado?

Sentada doe horas in un lugar
Mi familia me pidio no venir
Pero yo tenia sentir su gracia
Ahora Estoy aqui en Ramat Gan

Nosotros vemos el bombardeo en TV
Una masacre con la que el mundo esta de acuerdo

Pero esta tierra en la que estoy parada
Quien tiene la razon y quien no?
Di companero di algo
Aunque sea hola

Paso por el ritual de passporte
Si, me estoy yendo, es comun

Me dices abrochate el cinturon
por el bien de la seguridad
Las bomadas estan cayendo
Estoy comiendo pastel de helando

Y si, pienso que le gusto a su dios
Y que mi dios le gustan ustedes tambien

Cuando ustedes me expotan
Yo les exploto
Di companero di algo
Aunque sea hola

Na am rabu ku yi hi buni
Wai rabi ya hi ri buka

Y aqui en el otro lado del mundo
Conocemos a una chica hermosa

y ella nos da todo su espacio
y senala hacia la luna

mica mocha ba aylim adonai
mica mocha neydar ba kodesh

no rah te hiliyah oh sey felleh
Di companero di algo
Aunque sea hola...

 

3 - Shorashim (Roots)
[tango]

A las raices de los
arboles en las fronteras
No les importa
donde han cercido
El sol y la lluvia
Nunca se quejan
Solo siguen alimentando...
(a las raices de los
arboles en la fronteras)

Pero entendemos

Las gaviotas descansan
en los edificios
de las fronteras
vuelan sin un pasaporte
No hablan ingles o frances
o Hebreo o arabe

Pero entendemos

Entonces, si tu miras
abajo desde arriba
Veras las selvas
Junto un desierto o al mar
Y si miras justo al frente
Yo te vere
Y tu me veras
Te vere y me veras

Los arboles, las gaviotas
y el hombre
Fueron hechos por Dios
Los bordes y las fronteras fueron
hechos por el hombre

Pero entendemos

1 - because we're here
[tango]

All of the market
All of the talk and the dreaming
All of the women
all of the men wait in line
All of the rifles all of the bullets Hello world
Is this cowboy
breaking Your spine?

CHORUS:
Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty
Sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty
Had a great fall
Somebody tell somebody
We are not killing anymore
We're not marching anywhere
Because we're here
Because we're here
Because we're here

Too many bullets
Too many evil perspectives

Too much money being spent
in the name of defense
Too much propaganda
Too many misinformed countries
And too many murdered
at our expense

CHORUS

So give me your tired
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
I take what I want
all I want's a sense of equality
keep your propaganda
away from the dagger of fact
and careful what you say sir
villains stab themselves in the back

CHORUS

 

2 - who could be greater
[tango]

Soldiers march like centipedes
It's a hundred and ten degrees
Is it written in the Koran to take a hundred
For every stolen one?

Sitting twelve hours in one place
My family asked me not to come
But I had to feel your grace
Now I'm here in Ramat Gan

We see the bombing on TV
A massacre the world agrees
But this land I'm standing on
Who's right who's wrong
Say fellow say something, even hello

I go through the passport ritual
Yes I'm leaving it's habitual

You say buckle up for safety's sake
The bombs are falling
I'm eating frozen ice cream cake

And yes I think your god likes me
And my god likes you too
When you go up on me
I'll go up on you
Say fellow say something, even hello

Na am rabu ku yi hi buni
[I think your god likes me]
Wai rabi ya hi ri buka
[And my god likes you too]

And here on the other side of the world
We meet a beautiful girl

and she gives us her whole room
and she points towards the moon

mica mocha ba aylim adonai
[who is like you eternal one, among
the Gods that are worshipped?]
mica mocha neydar ba kodesh
[who is like you, majestic in holiness,]
no rah te hiliyah of sey felleh
[awesome in splendor, doing wonders?]
say fellow say something, even hello

 

3 - roots
[tango]

The roots of the trees at the borders
Don't care where they grow

The sun and the rain
Never complain
They just keep on feeding...
(the roots of the trees at the borders)

But we understand

The seagulls rest on the buildings
at the borders
they fly without a passport
they don't speak in English or
French or Hebrew or Arabic

But we understand

So, if you look down from above
You will see jungles
Next to a desert next to the sea
And if you look up straight ahead
I will see you
And you will see me
I will see you and you will see me

The trees, the seagulls, and man
Were made by God
The borders were made by man

But we understand?

 

 

4 - who's so scared
[LiVE at the Down Home]

Once riding in old Baltimore, head filled, heart filled with glee
I saw a Baltimorean, keep looking straight at me
I was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger
And so I smiled but he poked out his tongue and called me a nigga

I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember

Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared

When I was fourteen I took a bus to San Francisco
I was full of hope and joy, till this girl called me a boy
But I was already on my way so frightened to be gay
Just like in 1942, the world screaming
"Something's wrong with you, Jew"

Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared

But what I discover
Lover after lover
There's nothing wrong with me
That's just a lie by society

So I start looking at the world, we have
And while it's not completely bad
There's a lot of room for improvement
People of color and the gay movement

Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared

Once riding in old Baltimore, head filled, heart filled with glee
I saw a Baltimorean, keep looking straight at me
When I was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger
And so I smiled but he poked out his tongue and called me a nigga

I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember

Concerned about my own people

Won't you explain to me that pain of your life?
Won't you explain to me that pain of your life?
Won't you explain to me that pain of your life
Of your life?

Of your life

 

5 - 2 eggs over easy
[LiVE at the Down Home]

Here is my story once upon a time
I was a runner for the railroad
I didn't have a dime
I was living in a penthouse
full of Roach Powder
it was owned by a Vietnam Vet who had a lot of
pictures of himself and his buddies from the war
decorating every single wall and floor
in between the wallpaper that was curling down and turning brown
I tried to stay and make it but I had to leave New York town

I was hungry for oatmeal
and some car

fast and breezy
and someone who might make m
two eggs over easy

So I go to California
got a brother living there for 69 dollars go Greyhound anywhere
glad I brought my camera it was all I could carry disguised as a guitar
I kept looking at they kept looking back
4 blond headed children ages 4 to 10
her ex-husband would come and she'd get pregnant again
every year for 4 years in between the cold beers
she didn't know she had a choice
she didn't know another alphabet

Still she was hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make her
two eggs over easy

Now I'm down in Baltimore
I'm trying to make my rent
I back up without looking put a big fat dent
I was driving my mother's car
not looking going backwards like my life
funny thing about insurance
if you use it you lose it
So I sit down by an Oak Tree
to read a book of love
it was written by 2 doctors who were guilty of
divorce two times each
who makes who the expert qualified to teach
I kept looking at they kept looking back...

Still I'm hungry for oatmeal
and some car

fast and breezy
and someone who might make me
two eggs over easy

No alarm clock warning just get up in the morning and run
and run away with you and run and run is all I want to do
I wish I had a dollar for every time we'd holler oo oo oo...

 

6 - won't let go
[No Bomb is Smart]

the very first time I was learning to ride
without training wheels or you by my side
down a steep hill I took a right

there was a car coming at me and one from behind
don't let go – just hold on

keep your eyes on the road
and your heart in a song
whatever happened is already gone
don't let go – don't let go
then when I was 10, you gave me a guitar

and I said, “dad, I'm gonna be a big star”
and you said, “Son, you better practice real hard
but to me you already are”
she took you to the doctor to get you checked out

see what that headache was really about
when he returned, I thought the news would be bad

now I'm saying these words to you dad
then I heard your voice and all my fear disappeared

and I know exactly why we are here
it's for this moment to recognize
that you will always be by my side
and I won't let go... won't let go

 

7 - play the music
[DF05 LiVE in Kerrville, Texas]

Could it be, yes it could, play the music that feel so good
Like a pie in the sky
Eat it up for the perfect high
How many of us are in this room
I dare you to look into my eyes
How many of us can get the nowness of this tune
Just enough to enlighten all the skies

Some say you should leave it
But I say unto you you should believe it
And actually this is exactly as you would
Come on play me the music that feels good

All of us are in this marathon
Sometimes I see myself running a mile behind
Then some kind stranger allow me to find
All the time the illusion was in my mind

Some say you should leave it?

Why do you stay
So long away
So long away

 

8 - Obviously

You can keep those cardboard boxes
so your TV's safe for your next move

and those 10,000 t-shirts
most of which were never used
you can keep your heart locked up tight
in a constant state of blues
but you can't keep me

You can keep those dishes dirty
maybe they'll learn to wash themselves
about the time the laundry figures out how
to fold and find the shelves
you can keep online for hours
and never come to bed
you can keep on trying to run away
from the demons in your head
but you can't keep me

I have tried for so many years
I have cried more than a million tears
if teardrops were dollars
I'd be a millionaire
obviously, you just don't care

You can keep right on ignoring me
I know that's your style
but you said this was forever
are we riding the last mile
you can make this dream a nightmare
you can make a good thing bad
you can go ahead and blame me
for everything we never had
but you can't keep me

 

9 - The Other Man

there's a chunk of blue gum stuck to the bottom
of the bunk bed that I'm lying under

laying low looking up through the wood slats
counting the lightning distance by thunder
tonight we'll drive across the city
we've been sleeping on the other side
and we'll put lots of hairspray in our hair
to look pretty anticipation keeps us alive
now I don't know where I'm going
I barely know where I've been
all I know is I'm still looking for...
the other man
the buzz of the air conditioner working
overtime trying to keep us cool
but I seem to remember passing a warning sign
back when having a hammer was the perfect tool
tonight we'll drive to the radio station
negotiate the angles of our guitars
it's a chance to sing to this nation
use our wings and get out of these cars
now I don't know where I'm going
I barely know where I've been
all I know is I'm still looking for...
the other man
when I was 3, I wanted to be 10
when I was 10, wanted to be 16
when I was red, I wanted to be blue
when I was green, I wanted to be you
then came a tap upon my shoulder
telling me that every age is older
now, I'm not a millionaire but I can take you there
'cause what I've seen is priceless: mountains
oceans and hands and you can go there too
you just gotta tell your president, your prime minister
tell your senator and your janitor
bank tellers and lawyers, and sons and daughters
mothers and brothers, sisters and lovers
fathers and nurses and drivers of hearses
rabbis and cantors and grocery man handlers
and all other spiritual custodians
to stop buying and lying, cheating, deleting
mistreating and bombing, 'cause I am...
the other man
then we'll drive across the country
we've been weeping on the other side
and we'll put lots of anti-ammunition
in our hearts and lungs
it's not the gas masks that'll keep us alive now
I know where I'm going
and I know where you've been
and I'm happy just to free...
the other man
'cause I'm the other man
that's who I am
I'm the other man

 

10 - love names me

[lyrics to be added]

 

11 - By My Silence (E. Buckstel and N. Annis based on the poem of Pastor Martin Niemöller)