Playlist Matisyahu

matisyahu - youth

Some of them come now
Some of them running
Some of them looking for fun
Some of them looking for a way out of confusion
Some of them don't know what to be
Some of them don't know where to go
Some of them trust their instincts that something's missing from the show
Some don't fit society,
Insides are crying low
Some of them teachers squash the flame before it had a chance to grow
Some of them embers do glow
Them charcoal, hushed and low
Some of them come with the hunger suppressed, not fed
Them feel a death blow

Young man, control in your hand
Slam your fist on the table and make your demand
Take a stand
Fan a fire for the flame of the youth
You´ve got the freedom to choose
Better make the right move
Young man, the power's in your hand
Slam your fist on the table and make your demand
You gotta make the right move

"youth is the engine of the world" x2

Storm the halls of vanity
Focus your energy
Into a laser beam
Streaming shattered light
Unites to pierce
Between the seams
And it seems
In a world open
Peering, the children see
Rapid fire for your mind
The "truth" is just a lie
They rub me the wrong way
Then say their way or fall behind
Seven subjects disconnect
Left out the concept as to
Why there's a spiritual emptiness
So them youth can get vexed
Skip class and get wrecked
Filled with beer and cigarettes
And take home and make checks.

Young man, control in your hand
Slam your fist on the table and make your demand
Take a stand
Fan a fire for the flame of the youth
You´ve got the freedom to choose
You better make the right move
Young man, the power's in your hand
Slam your fist on the table and make your demand
You better make the right move

You´ve got the freedom to choose
Better make the right move
You´ve got the freedom to choose

Young man, control in your hand
Slam your fist on the table and make your demand
Take a stand
Fan a fire for the flame of the youth
You´ve got the freedom to choose
Better make the right move
Young man, the power's in your hand
Slam your fist on the table and make your demand
You better make the right move

"youth is the engine of the world" x5

matisyahu - one day

Sometimes I lay
Under the moon
And thank God I'm breathing
Then I pray
Don't take me soon
'Cause I am here for a reason

Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know some day it'll all turn around because...

All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play
One day [x6]

It's not about
Win or lose
Because we all lose
When they feed on the souls of the innocent
Blood-drenched pavement
Keep on moving though the waters stay raging

In this maze you can lose your way (your way)
It might drive you crazy but don't let it faze you no way (no way)

Sometimes in my tears I drown (I drown)
But I never let it get me down (get me down)
So when negativity surrounds (surrounds)
I know some day it'll all turn around because...

All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play
One day [x6]

One day this all will change
Treat people the same
Stop with the violence
Down with the hate

One day we'll all be free
And proud to be
Under the same sun
Singing songs of freedom like
One day [x2]

All my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
For the people to say
That we don't wanna fight no more
There will be no more wars
And our children will play
One day [x6]

matisyahu - sunshine

[Verse 1:]
Keep on moving to the first rays of dawn
Keeping it on 'til the day stays strong
Runnin 'til the night time blazes on
All along I keep singing my song
I said, this phase is always
Sometimes I get so crazed
But just know that I'll always stay
'Cause you're my light through the haze

[Chorus:]
It's time for a champion
Soothe the soul of the land
Mend the heart from the sea and the sand
'Til the sun comes up again
[2x]

Reach for the sky
Keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind
Be my golden sunshine
It's raining in your mind
So push them clouds aside
Forever by my side
You're my golden sunshine

[Verse 2:]
When the sun set I let myself down
Found the ground beneath my feet gone
No more words were there to speak
On that day my song was born
Never meant to leave you all alone
Said I'd be your shelter from the storm
Now your clothes have all been torn
Kingdom sacked attacked and dethroned

[Chorus]

Reach for the sky
Keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind
Be my golden sunshine
It's raining in your mind
So push them clouds aside
Forever by my side
You're my golden sunshine

It's the way of the world
You're on your own
Time to grow and be a man
Wanna fly high like Peter Pan
No more Never Never Land
So lose your backpack filled with sand
Come along and take my hand
We'll walk together, walk forever

Reach for the sky
Keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind
Be my golden sunshine
It's raining in your mind
So push them clouds aside
Forever by my side
You're my golden sunshine

Reach for the sky
Keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind
Be my golden sunshine
It's raining in your mind
So push them clouds aside
Forever by my side
You're my golden sunshine

[2x]
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Walk with me now, talk with me now, baby
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Walk with me, momma, talk with me now

matisyahu - king without a crown

You're all that I have and you're all that I need
Each and every day I pray to get to know you please
I want to be close to you, yes I'm so hungry
You're like water for my soul when it gets thirsty
Without you there's no me
You're the air that I breathe
Sometimes the world is dark and I just can't see
With these, demons surround all around to bring me down to negativity
But I believe, yes I believe, I said I believe
I'll stand on my own two feet
Won't be brought down on one knee
Fight with all of my might and get these demons to flee
Hashem's rays fire blaze burn bright and I believe
Hashem's rays fire blaze burn bright and I believe
Out of darkness comes light, twilight unto the heights
Crown Heights burnin' up all through till twilight
Said, thank you to my God, now I finally got it right
And I'll fight with all of my heart, and all a' my soul, and all a' my might
[Chorus:]
What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
I give myself to you from the essence of my being and I
Sing to my God, songs of love and healing
I want Moshiach now, time we start revealing
What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
I give myself to you from the essence of my being and I
Sing to my God, songs of love and healing
I want Moshiach now

Strippin? away the layers and reveal your soul
Got to give yourself up and then you become whole
You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know
You want to live the fast life but your brain moves slow
If you're trying to stay high, bound to stay low
You want God but you can't deflate your ego
If you're already there then there's nowhere to go
If you're cup's already full then its bound to overflow
If you're drowning in the water's and you can't stay afloat
Ask Hashem for mercy, and he'll throw you a rope
You're looking for help from God you say he couldn't be found
Searching up to the sky and looking beneath the ground
Like a King without his Crown
You keep fallin' down
You really want to live but can't get rid of your frown
Tried to reach unto the heights and wound bound down on the ground
Given up your pride and the you heard a sound
Out of night comes day and out of day comes light
Nullified to the One like sunlight in a ray,
Makin' room for his love and a fire gone blaze
Makin' room for his love and a fire gone blaze
[Chorus:]
What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
I give myself to you from the essence of my being and I
Sing to my God, songs of love and healing
I want Moshiach now, time we start revealing
What's this feeling?
My love will rip a skylight in the ceiling
I give myself to you from the essence of my being and I
Sing to my God, songs of love and healing
Yo ( X 9)

I lift up my eyes where my help come from
Seen it circling around from the mountain
Thunder!
You feel it in your chest
You keep my mind at ease and my soul at rest
Look to the sky where my help come from
Seen it circling around from the mountain
Thunder!
You feel it in your chest
You keep my mind at ease and my soul at rest

matisyahu - close my eyes

No matter where I am bless me with all your light,
I'm on the train brain vexed connect and the I feel blessed
Whether day or night I'm on the street midtown New York City
Let me stop praise your name I need room to breath
I want to feel your peace; I got to feel your ease
Screaming' down on my, because my insides bleed
My hearts on fire witnessed all the vampires
Yes I came hear on a to inspire

Chorus:
Close my eyes and take a ride inside
Feel the breeze blow by yo I'm getting' you high
Bob Nesta said it best everything will be all right
Introspect connect the sect's and let this music make you fly

I listened' to the wind whistle in a channel of sound
my ear like a vacuum begin to boom
glisten like the sun heats a drum,
cursing' all of them doomed rising' up from the ground
growing full like the moon
Said I'm planting like a seed yes sir
them get up and get up and grow and I'm firm like a tree,
well I know that's all I know,
that some their colors wonderful like it was a rainbow
Let me tell you one time if you didn't know

Chorus

Moonlight enlighten my way at twilight
from the heights of my roof I send praise then poof
I'm looking up at the night
and ask for help to get up and get up and get up and get up and get it right

Jerusalem you take me high make me fly like arrow in the sky

matisyahu - star on the raise

Lace 'em up, shadow boxing in the basement, speed bag
Time to land the spaceship
Heavy hitter, duckin' punches, fightin' the enemy
Who is the enemy? Can I survive me?
I'm goin' in, I'm goin' under
Touch like lightning, roar like thunder
My legs are shaky - will I make it?
I can't lie anymore, I can't fake it
No more runnin', I can't take it
Crack open, learn to take it
Pullin' the rake over my heart, I can taste it
Going in circles, return to the burn
Am I moving forward? What have I learned?
Give glory to the heavens and the earth
I walk the dirt and flirt with death
Taste the breath of the devil while you move with the rest
More or less it's time we score
We won this test so let your chest take a rest
And let your breath be the sound
That lets us nest in the sound and then drowns in the now
It's the light of the first 6 days of creation
How far can you go?

Flames on the horizon
Them keep realizing
There's a star on the rise again
Flames on the horizon
Them keep realizing
There's a star on the rise again

I try to keep my focus in this field of locusts
Many winds blowin' but that's all hocus pocus
Decipher the truth from the lie
Especially in regards to how it lies upon the inside
Quick now tell the guards
I'll be running with no pauses
I write to ignite dead souls that's my cause
Drop like the jaws, feel the fury from my claws
10 years gone by, I been out on tours

Flames on the horizon
Them keep realizing
There's a star on the rise again
Flames on the horizon
Them keep realizing
There's a star on the rise again

Flames on the horizon
Them keep realizing
There's a star on the rise again
Flames on the horizon
Them keep realizing
There's a star on the rise again

matisyahu - lord raise me up

(chorus)
Said lord raise me up
From the ground
I've been here so long
I said lord raise me up
From the ground

See I been gone for so long where my mind been at
Wont you please wake me up
Wont you please bring me back
Daydream fantasy and my mind well asleep
Eyes closed up from you with my mind heavy
So wont you please wake me up
And shake me up and take me up
And babylon will make me shock
Wave yes I had enough
So open up and lift the gates
Redemption coming like a run away truck
You make my heart want to serve
you and I'm bound
To erupt you lift me up
From quick sand and a world gone corrupt
No longer stuck up up and away we go
Yerushalayim is our home

(chorus)
Said lord raise me up
From the ground
I've been here so long
I said lord raise me up
From the ground

matisyahu - fire of heaven altar of earth

[verse 1]
Fire descends from on high in the shape of a lion
Burn the sacrifice of pride and ride on Mount Zion
Rub me the wrong way, taking the highway
Rubbing sticks together but your fire's man-made
Capitalize on hot air, soar like an airplane
Yearn to rise in the sky quick high like cocaine
False pride is suicide but you've got nothing to gain
Babylon's buildings raise like flames
Drowning in their champagne
Explosion pulled the pin in the hand grenade
Soul stain blowing up
In your own domain
Fire crackers ohh and aah
But they never maintain

[bridge]
Fires burning
Flames are dancing
Don't burn the house down Lord
Heavenly fire only resides on an alter made from the ground

[chorus]
Fire descends on high in the shape of a lion
Burn the sacrifice of pride and ride on to Mount Zion
[repeat 2x]

[verse 2]
One pair of eyes
But see two different things
One person cries but the other one sings
You walk around like everybody owes ya something
Take what you got, thank G-d for all that life brings
The poor man has it all but not content with anything
While the rich man's hands are empty but he's sitting like a kind

[bridge]

[verse 3]
Backpack's geting heavey, moving at a steady pace
Carrying bricks on your shoulders and lead around your waist
Making way, run in haste
There is no time to taste what you ate
WE should be grateful got a plateful
Fire burns like ice morcels falling fire like rain

[chorus]

matisyahu - i will be light

Sit back
And in these days
Remember my ways
Oh will i get out of my cage?
Yes i am a slave

Searching for some freedom
Searching for some freedom

So intend to sing them
Songs to spark, memories
What is a man with no history?
Where am I ?
Who am I ?
What is this place?,
We're just spinning in space

I will be light
I will be light
I will be light
I will be light

Time will continue without you
So in the end
Its not about you
But,
What did you do?
Who do you love besides you
Beside you, many died in the name of vanity
Many die,in their minds eye, for justice
We die for you
And still do
So i say to you
This is nothing new

I will be light
I will be light
I will be light
I will be light

Its/In one tiny moment in time
For life to shine, to shine
Burn away the darkness

Youve got one tiny moment in time
x7
For life to shine, to shine
To burn away the darkness

I will be light
I will be light
I will be light
I will be light light light light
I will be light
I will be light light light light

matisyahu - got no water

You quench my thirsting soul and you fill my appetite
I give myself to you because you treat me right
Put my trust in the world and the world gets tight
Shift my trust to you it's like a crystal clear night
Expand in all directions get the sections to unite
Hashem's rays fire blaze light my way light of my life
And these days well wait no longer night
reaching for my G-d like skyscrapers in the night
I said I know its hard inside is empty galus (exile) cuts like a knife
Internalize torah vibes bound to feel alright

Chorus:
Whirlwind of praise from below to above
Take flight in the sky got wings like a dove,
Soaring to shamayim (heaven) where the angels call in love
And the glory of Hashem fits like a glove

Hashem rules the world and Israel is his wife
Love you yes my G-d with all my heart my soul and my might
When I feel you by my side yes I'm flying like a kite
You open up my eyes and give me sight
Super energized and everyday I feel you give me life
I seen the ways of the world intoxifying on pride
Young man don't you know drugs impurify your mind
When Israel left mitzrayim four fifths got left behind
If you got no water how you gonna survive
Roots lead you to the well springs so you could stay alive
Pharaoh claimed to be a G-d and claimed to make the Nile
A crocodile could smile and show his teeth
You could see beauty shining externally but that's the story of Greece
Inside America bleeds, Israel won't you get up from your knees
Its just lies in disguise Torah's truth won't you please realize
Given to the humble one on Mt. Sinai

Chorus

Shma Y'sroel, Hashem Elokainu, Hashem Echad
(Hear Israel, the lord is our G-d, the lord is one)

The world could just crumble to dust its just us it's not two it's just one
The middle road called truth, Torah you sooth my brain bruise
Open up peruse with knowledge of G-d
And move up an arousal from below till the secrets start to ooze
Don't snooze it's pure light the most high wants us alive
What's the proof?
We got life!
Chabad philosophy that's the deepest well-spring
Gaining knowledge of G-d while your gaining money
Fill up yourself with the light of his majesty
In a world of separation that's the only way to be
It's time we leave we won't flee just walk out easily

If you got no water how you gonna survive

Chorus

matisyahu - motivate

Raise the gate, motivate the place
Take a taste as we blaze on through the fate
Clean slate, move on, chant all night long
Gonna sing my song 'til the early morn

When the moon shines down all upon the land
This ain't no game and this ain't no scam
I ran from BK unto Japan
From Israel to the Holy Land

Open up and breathe in now out shout out loud
Won't you let it all out, spit fountains?
Whether day or night shine bright
When I fly through the night

Would you leave it all behind?
Revelation wake in the morning
To find you waiting even in a desperation
Feel something that's embracing

Revelation wake in the morning
Even in a desperation
Even in this desperation
Even in a desolation

Got to trail my path, slash page combat with a glass
Intact, no react and stack build up the nation
Can't replace them and a youth them gone invasion
It's a journey , I'm a wandering soul

Speak up on the unspoken and a pour out
The timeless suffering and lift up on the curtain
Spin on the wheels of creation
I'm a searching, I'm a searching search light
When the time is right and the night is ripe

Would you leave it all behind?
Revelation wake in the morning
To find you waiting even in a desperation
Feel something that's embracing

Revelation wake in the morning
Even in a desperation
Even in this desperation
Even in a desolation

Catch the arrows filled with poison

matisyahu - watching the wheels

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game
People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people asks me questions lost in confusion
Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry
I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go

matisyahu - crossroads

It's like I'm walking through this kingdom of time
Thus far I've done lost my mind
Only to find the other side

Is where the world opens wide
To descend these city streets late at night
I've been searching for my bite
They say I inspired, but I'm still looking for my fire
These lies have got me tired
I'm free falling, I'm done stalling
I'm done crawling up this mountain top
I won't stop till I manifest my crop
The top is close
I'm sky scraping
They stay chasing
I'm like a raisin in the sun
I'm running from death's invasion
They're done, I'm going gray
I'm still young having mystic visions
Of the one, I hear the hum, the melody comes
Rushing in like some wind
Cuts close like a knife
All I got is my life
All I got I got I got

Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by
Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by

Now the rain is falling drizzle dropping on the street
Cleaning off the dirt beneath my feet
I got the speed on repeat
While I'm riding subway trains on a fact
Over tracks to go crack, my heart's black
But intact I've come to take the music back
I'm moving forward this time you can't ignore it
Put the pedal to the floor
Let's take you off
Through the time that has come
The time has come I launch orbit
I'm tight rope
Walking over fiery flames, yeah hot coals
I'm like water for you trolls
I pay no tolls
Speak to ghosts
Time to go high
The cross that you walk by
Got my eye into
Magic fly off on the broom
Which way to choose I'm at the crossroads, but I'll never give my soul
It's already old

Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by
Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by

I'm a slave to the throne
The chariot of flames is my home
I'm in a class of my own
Lights out, you're all alone, with your heart of stone
O-o-o-o-o-oh-oh

Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by
Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by
Crossroads, one million miles
I'm kicking up dirt when I fly by
Crossroads, one million miles

matisyahu - i believe in love

And I remember when I was running after you
Can?t keep up and you know it?s true
I know sometimes I?ve been down so blue
But it?s not about that ?cause you know what to do
Not about the he said, she said, you said, I said
Not about the show, not about the flow or the song I write
Early days and the late late night

I?m on my way to you
I?m on my way to you

I believe in love, sittin so high in the tree
I believe in love, you?re my reasons to be
Believe in love, yeah
Now I?m free

It?s not about the trains, or the planes or the automobiles
This is about the way that you make me feel
Swear of lies, this is something real
Said something but it?s time we heal
It?s not about the fast life in my past life
I asked you to be in my life
I know sometimes this love it cuts like a knife
But I want to end this strife

I?m on my way to you
I?m on my way to you

I believe in love, sittin so high in the tree
I believe in love, you?re my reasons to be
Believe in love, yeah
Now I?m free

I believe in love, sittin so high in the tree
I believe in love, you?re my reasons to be
Believe in love, yeah
Now I?m free

I believe in love, sittin so high in the tree
I believe in love, you?re my reasons to be
Believe in love, yeah
Now I?m free

matisyahu - open the gates

Like david with his stone, knocked goliath of his throne
There's nothing I can't do, cause I believe in you
And this world of stress, obstacles and tests
I will do my best, and leave the next world for my rest.

You wanna dance with the devil, tread up on the revel
Livin like a rebel, wanna revel in the treble
While you jump another level, yeah you wanna get high
But don't wanna pay the price, wanna slice through the night
Sit back and feel nice, carry snakes around your neck
I reckon get born to the life where the mornin shines on
Got to keep your feet up on the ground
When the beat drops down, ain't no time to clown around
This ain't my city, this ain't my town
I'm a stranger in a strange land with a strange sound
Must've been found, been wonderin all around
Time travellin with my crown, buried deep under the ground.

Like david with his stone, knocked goliath of his throne
There's nothing I can't do, when I believe in you
And this world of stress, obstacles and tests
Oh I will do my best, and leave the next world to my rest.

Just like time, I'm on a windy road
Got to get where I'm going, got to get up and go
Heavy hands we stand, and go for an overflow
I ran the land, just like the ego
In search of the sea, and the sand
But the fire in the sky ran out, mount and scraped the sun
The only light is the one, that shines inside
As the time evaporates, yeah the time goes by
Days move on some come some go
All along I walk with flow
Nowhere I know, nothing at all
When the kingdom falls, still sing to god
Step back and let go of it all
Under attack I learn to stand tall
But the night time stalls, and the sun don't rise and fall.

Like david with his stone, knocked goliath of his throne
There's nothing I can't do, when I believe in you
And this world of stress, obstacles and tests
Oh I will do my best, and leave the next world for my rest.

(awesome and holy jam section)

Urge us to praise, praise, praise, praise, prays, prays...
Open up the gates.............
Let my, run him in
Open, open, open, open, open, open, open...
Open up the gates, of righteousness
Ill be comin home.......

(some applause)

Open, gates, of righteousness
Ill be comin home...
Open, gates, of righteousness
We'll be comin home.....

(more applause)

Babylon your gonna go down down down
Babylon your gonna go down
I said I hear the words our higher man say
Babylon your gonna go down down down
Babylon your gonna go down

Said one bright morning when my work is over,
I'm gonna fly away home
One bright morning when my work is over,
I'm gonna fly away home
I said ill fly, away home, to zion
Fly away home.

I said ill fly away home to zion
Fly away home.
One day...
One day, one day this all will change, treat the people all the same

matisyahu