Within My Walls Lyrics

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1 Within My Walls Lyrics 1. Todas las Palabras (All the Words) I suppose that you and I will eventually meet And perhaps without even noticing Perhaps it will happen without rush and without wind In some place from yesterday I feel that you and I will meet and it might be strange With the hope, without rush and without voice, Without any footsteps to follow All song, all words, come and dance With the sound the wind makes When approaching your mouth and your skin Look at me for an instant Touch this silence that is ending And embrace the air turning into sky Inside your breath and my thirst It is the air that becomes the sky into my thirst I suppose that you and I will eventually meet, We might not even notice Maybe it will happen quickly And with wind in some new place I feel that you and I will meet and it might be strange With the hope, without rush, without voice, With dreams to begin All song, all words, come and dance With the sound the wind makes When approaching your mouth and your skin Look at me for an instant Touch this silence that is ending And embrace the air turning into sky Inside your breath and my thirst It is the air that becomes the sky into my thirst 2. Bein Kirot Beiti (Within My Walls) Here within my walls Everything is shut And no one will intrude Faced with my silent walls, not a whisper will enter Within the borders of my home No obstacle lies Within the room s many paths No sun will burn

2 And no shadow will dim And no storm will gush And no rain will wash And no small opening will frighten And not a thing can burn my walls For everything is protected From any menace at the gate Within my walls There is no one who will leave Here within my walls Silence lurks Grey and comforting Against the threatening street Is a drawn curtain and candlelight Here within my walls there is a memory, A letter under the door And not a voice to cry And not a soul to answer And no pain will remain For my walls are a comforting white And there are no stains of blood Or bruises Or tears of the heart Of course all is foretold you know Within the walls no flower Will wilt before its time 3. She eriot Shel Ha Chaim (Scraps of Life) What is time telling me It s all scraps of life And to live the moment To begin collecting the shards Maybe I will get out more Start to speed up a bit Start to get along And make some noise Maybe a different place A more exciting place Start to shake things up And make them right again 4. Mai Nahar (River Waters) Flowing waters of the river See These are the days of your life The waters of your life Washed in the current That begins with the first rain

3 Flowing water of the river See These are the streams of water That will reach an anguished desert With the falling silence Even if I drink the entire ocean It will not quench my thirst For another day close to you For another day in your arms Even if I sit under the sun Her rays will not burn me As my heart burns in the flames of your love 5. Chalomot Shel Acherim (Other People s Dreams) For years everyone runs away For years everyone returns Chasing after the sun Trapped within circles Everyone is complicated So what are you still dreaming for? For years they are hiding something For years everyone knows A stone overturns Throughout the days and nights Everyone is talking Why are you still here? It s better to run to the flames Demand Not ask What are you afraid of? Don t think twice when he says There is no better time Bring on the day For years they are asking For years they are not listening Keeping everything inside It gathers and strengthens And finally exhausts What are you talking about? Turns out you re always silent But inside everything is burning, on fire All the words that vanished You will find them in other people s dreams For years they open up And remain shut, Grasp the wind

4 Every disaster on the heals of another One announced As another is told Returning to the open wound 6. Ôdjus Fitxadu (With My Eyes Shut) When I looked at the sky today All I could see were stars Telling me that you are gone forever, my love Do beseech God s angels To come and get this woman Who refuses to go on living without your love Your love Sovereign queen over gloom I seek a way out Bearing the sword and the power of longing and pain With my soul free in time I vow to live with my eyes shut And thus keep you with me, With me 7. Shev (Stay) Stay We will try to get used to each other We will try to trust One more time We will try to begin again Stay Breathe the air in Open your eyes Find the point again Give me your hand Let me stay with you Come Come to me Come home Come so I won t be alone Come back to me And don t be afraid 8. Rov Ha'Sha ot (Most of The Hours) Most of the hours that remained Were filled with love For most of the days that escaped us She was with me and I was with her In most of the songs that filled the room

5 I was a raging storm And what is left at the end from the break For most of the time is the silence In most of the escapes and bursts of anger I remember a frigid wind In most of the winds and storms At days end she returned In most of the songs, still remember her face Touching Not touching And a tear of silence Through most of the tears, The room s reflection As if commanding her life to end in bed There are days left And they are many And they are hers And there are hours that are filled entirely with her scent And most of the time she remained An when she wasn t weeping One way Or another I remain hers 9. Min Nhar Li Mshiti (From The Day You Left) Hey mama, why did you leave? You are the soul and life of me My tears flow in you, mama You taught me and suffered for me You are your own shadow, the light of my eyes Sweet mother Beloved mother Only you, light of my eyes How much you toiled and thought of me I miss your shadow, the light of my eyes Hey mama, light of my eyes You left, and left me Hey, mama How did you leave me without And I will die of worries day and night It is me that you cried about My entire life I will not forget you, my beloved Where are you mother? Where were you my beloved? I am an orphan from the day you left The enemies cheated me Only God will comfort me

6 10. Cada Día (Every Day) Every day someone talks to me about you Trying to remove the pain from within my soul Every day someone talks to me about you Trying to explain to me that you won t return But at night, when there is no light When everyone leaves You slowly walk into my dreams, There you are, you are not just a memory I can feel you so close that you are almost real But then you leave again And when I wake up your absence is present Every day someone talks to me about you And they tell me time is like a turning wheel Every day I could climb After reaching the bottom if only I could also turn But at night, when there is no light When everyone leaves You slowly walk into my dreams, There you are, you are not just a memory I can feel you so close that you are almost real But then you leave again And when I wake up your absence is present 11. Hakol Over (This Too Shall Pass) I was already so far away from you And no words remained for us to speak And the wind swept away a lone sail And made it lonelier still Awake from every dream and every whisper This too shall pass All that was once and was forgotten Today will not return It is every wrinkle carved deep into the skin That today burns deeper still For there is no way back And this too shall pass Every day follows another And night follows night And as long as nothing changes on this earth It is good we stayed together And that we have someone with whom to share Despite everything there is no way back And this too shall pass Every wound that healed and reopened

7 Today burns even more It mends and restores itself And again it all bursts forward, even stronger Now it does not fall apart and crack And this too shall pass Do you remember how we once were? Facing the strengthening wind And after all the bad years Many better years came to pass Our time rushes forward continuously And never stops 12. Nin al Be'Mabato (Locked In His Gaze) A man withdraws into his world Despite all the signs telling - Come to the door, Tomorrow has arrived Get up and go out to the sunlight To the open spaces His gaze is locked Even though she whispers in his ears Words Spells that she knows Things he no longer does He doesn t feel How the moon brightens his window A man is thrown into his loneliness Until he is struck deep within And his entire life follows a winding path From his first day to his last A man dives within his inner depths Until his life is within his walls From suffocating air To the blowing wind And his song Is the fire of his heart and flame of his life 13. Maisha Alone and listening to the light of the moon An orphaned child cried to the shadows Alone and listening to the light of the moon Maisha prayed for someone to save her She d wandered for so very far That she no longer knew her way home The whole world knows her story But no one knows her name Moon, if you are there

8 Return so that she might be comforted Moon, if you are there Return so that she can sleep Moon, if you are there Return so that she might be comforted Moon, if you are there I am begging for Maisha Return for Maisha Maisha is a girl s name in Swahili, but also means life. This song is dedicated to the child soldiers in Northern Uganda.