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1. |
Eretz Thuringen
01:36
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Eynem a tog, kh’vel oyle zayn
In Erets-Turingen arayn
Erets-Turingen, Erets-Turingen
Erets-Turingen, vu bistu?
Eynem a tog, kh’vel soykher zayn
In Erets-Turingen arayn
Ay ay ay - in Erets-Turingen arayn
Ay ay ay ay ay ay
Es fort a poyezd vos nemt undz avek
Keyn Medines Vaymar tsu freylekhe teg
Erets-Turingen, sheyninke land
Ver vet undz firn ahin bay der hand?
Ay ay ba bay ba ba bay
Tra la la la la la
Eynem a tog, kh’vel oyle zayn
In Erets-Turingen arayn
Erets-Turingen, Erets-Turingen,
Ikh benk nokh dir!
Ikh benk nokh dir!
Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay
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“An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your wholeness I will not get far.
An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your wholeness I will not get far.”
“A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your emptiness I won’t get far.
A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your emptiness I won’t get far.”
“I live like a pig, I live like a shit,
You’re toiling away, and I don’t give a shit.
I live like a pig, I live like a shit,
You’re toiling away, and I don’t give a shit”.
“You live like a pig, you live like a shit,
I’m toiling away, and you don’t give a shit.
You live like a pig, you live like a shit,
I’m toiling away, and you don’t give a shit”
An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your cleanness I will not get far.
An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your cleanness I will not get far.”
“A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your filthiness I won’t get far.
A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your filthiness I won’t get far.”
“Again I’m a jerk, again I’m a dick,
Again my behavior is ugly and sick.
Again I’m a jerk, again I’m a dick,
Again my behavior is ugly and sick.”
“Again you’re a jerk, again you’re a dick,
Again your behavior is ugly and sick.
Again you’re a jerk, again you’re a dick,
Again your behavior is ugly and sick”.
“May I burn in flames, be stumped by a horse,
No matter what happens, you’re mine and I’m yours.
May I burn in flames, be stumped by a horse,
No matter what happens, you’re mine and I’m yours.”
“May you burn in flames, be fucked by a swine,
No matter what happens, I’m yours and you’re mine.
May you burn in flames, be fucked by a swine,
No matter what happens, I’m yours and you’re mine.”
“An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your wholeness I will not get far.
An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your wholeness I will not get far.”
“A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your emptiness I won’t get far.
A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your emptiness I won’t get far.”
An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your cleanness I will not get far.
An asshole I am, a good one you are,
Lacking your cleanness I will not get far.”
“A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your filthiness I won’t get far.
A good one I am, an asshole your are,
Lacking your filthiness I won’t get far.”
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3. |
Israel Nothing
02:11
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Gornisht
Yiddish - gornisht, Arabish - gornisht
Hebreyish, Rusish - gornisht
Ladino, English - gornisht
Esperanto überalles - gornisht, gornisht, gornisht
Esperanto überalles - gornisht, gornisht, gornisht
Israel - nothing, Palestine - nothing
Theodore Herzl - nothing
Yitzhak Rabin - nothing
Hamas, Fatah, Hezbul-la-la - nothing, nothing, nothing
Hamas, Fatah, Hezbul-la-la - nothing, nothing, nothing
Torah - nothing, Talmud - nothing
Koran and Bible - nothing
The Wailing Wall is nothing
If they build a new fucking Temple - nothing, nothing, nothing
If the Jews build a new fucking Temple - nothing, nothing, nothing
Muhammad - nothing, Moshiach - nothing
Barack Obama - nothing
Netanyahu - nothing
Arafat and Arik Sharon - na na Nachman nothing
Jesus Christ and Allen Ginsberg - na na Nachman nothing
Holocaust - nothing, Auschwitz - nothing
Deir Yassin is nothing
Sabra Shatila - nothing
Yom Haatzmaut and Yad Vashem - Nakba, Nakba, nothing
Yom Haatzmaut and Yad Vashem - nothing, Nakba, nothing
The Boycott is nothing, the Birthright is nothing
The IDF is nothing
PLO is nothing
Gilad Shalit and Rachel Corey - nothing, nothing, nothing
Gilad Shalit and Rachel Corey - nothing, nothing, kill me
Cynicism - nothing, nihilism - nothing
Hipster humor - nothing
Postmodern bullshit - nothing
Foreign assholes with opinions - nothing, nothing nothing
Stupid songs that just provoke you - gornisht, gornisht, gornisht
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Gute mentshn, a mayse vel ikh aykh dertseyln
Fun a tsayt vos vet kumen in goyrl
Es hot mir gekholmt a kholem, keyn sheyner
Fun der tsukunft fun Erets Yisroyl
An atom-bombe af Yerushalayim
Eksplodirt vi a brokh af der erd
A naye milkhome mit Iran un Mitsrayim
Kumt on vi a tayvlish ferd
Der Soyne-Yisroyl bazetst di gantse erets
Der oylem makht pleyte atsind
Di pleytem zey forn in shifn keyn Tsipern
Zey flien vi feyglekh in vint
Nor etlekhe blaybn tsu shteyen un kemfn
Di shvartse un oreme layt
Zey vern derharget fun milyonen mentshn
Vos gisn fun Gaza bafrayt
Di arabishe kinder zey tun di gebetn
Fun di shpelter fun koysl in brand
Zey leydikn oys dos postkestl fun himl
Men makht khorev dos heylike land
Nor es zaynen nisht nor yidn vos laydn in tsores
Shiitn bazetsn Beyrut
Dos land vert farkhurvet vi Sodom un Gomore
Un Amolek shaft taykhn fun blut
Yisroeldike bomben zey faln af Perziye
Un farbrenen bizn grunt Teyran
Amerike bageyt militerishe perversyes
Un di gantse velt vert gor a balagan
Un di arabishe kinder in ale di lender
Zey tuen di gasn in Eyrope blutroyt
Di shlakht treft di daytshn, frantsoysn, englender
Ale shtet vern toyt vi Detroyt
Di mentshhayt vet kumen in finstere tsaytn
Vos vet zayn shtelt ir zikher shoyn for
Muzlimen un yidn un kristn veln shtraytn
In dem nayem, dem blutikn dor
[Good people, I’ll tell you a tale
Of a time that will become fate
I dreamed a dream, not a good one,
Of the future of the land of Israel
In Jerusalem, an atom bomb
Explodes like a divine curse
A new war with Iran and Egypt
Comes on like a demonic horse
Israel’s mortal enemies occupy the whole land
The people immediately flee
The refugees take ships to Cypress
They scatter like birds in the wind
But some remain to stand and fight
The people of color, the poor
They are slaughtered by the millions
Who pour out of Gaza, freed
Arab children set fire to the prayers
Stuck in the cracks of the Wailing Wall
They empty out heaven’s postbox
And make a ruin of the Holy Land
But it’s not only Jews who suffer greatly
Shiites occupy Beirut
The land is destroyed like Sodom & Gomorrah
And Amalek spills rivers of blood
Israeli bombs fall on Persia
And burn Tehran to the ground
America commits military perversions
And the whole world falls into chaos
The Arab youth in all the countries
Make Europe’s streets run blood-red
The war comes to Germany, France, England
All cities are as dead as Detroit
Humanity will fall into dark times
You can already imagine how it will be
Muslims and Jews and Christians will battle
In a new and bloody generation]
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5. |
Dead Sea Song
01:58
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Pharaoh's daughter
I am delivered
Bring me to Babylon
Take me to the river
Give me your exile
But be my lover
The deserts are burning now
You are my cover
All my kingdoms
All my testaments
All my prophecies
All my covenants
Wash away from me
Like Egyptian nights
Your eyes are my David Shield
You are my eternal light
Pharaoh's daughter
Take my Judas hand
The Dead Sea is dead my love
Let's be our own promised land
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6. |
The Jew In You
07:57
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I: Benediction
All you drunken shiksa sweethearts with your bloodshot eyes of blue,
All you border-crossing feyglekh who've been quarantined for flu,
All you lost exilic aliens, you migrant mongrel stew,
You needn't feel farloyrn, you don't have to be blue;
Just climb aboard this ark of ours and join the soggy crew!
It's a diasporic politics, it’s a reconstructed you,
With permeable borders in between the old and new;
A way to hide away what they would take away from you.
Forget your god and country, and your revolution, too.
It's possible for you to leave the many for the few.
It don't matter if your daddy was from Poland or Peru;
Your blood might come from Turkey or Detroit or Timbuktu;
Your language could be Farsi, Sanskrit, German, or Zulu;
Come on, we've got some wandering to do!
So bring out your Jew, bring out your Jew.
You may have a Jew inside of you.
A Jew. A Jew. A secret little Jew.
A secret Jew is buried inside you.
II: Reckoning
My definition here could use some explanation, true.
You have to ask yourselves just what I mean when I say “Jew.”
Well, the Jewishness concerning us should not be misconstrued.
Blood and land are things with which it doesn't have to do.
Religion is a matter most irrelevant here, too:
So let us try to look at this anew;
To find a category underneath the ones we knew,
A mercurial identity for people who are strewn
in countries far and wide, who haven't got a home in view;
Who drag around like shackles all the roots from which they grew.
Well others have endured this gules, too.
And here I offer it all up to you.
A kosher Yiddish food-for-thought that goyim now can chew.
It's what they did with Jesus when they wrote the bible new.
Rebranded monotheism for wider public view.
So learn to take the rootless cosmopolitan world view,
In the hidden interstices we all normally eschew;
To shlep your gules proudly you must learn how to make do;
And learn learn learn is what the wise man tells us to
So learn to be a Jew, learn to be a Jew.
You may have a Jew inside of you. . .
Learn to be a Jew. I've read too much Badiou.
A secret Jew is hiding inside of you.
III. Atonement
Why should I put the emphasis on inner secret Jews?
We all have different nations that we wear like different shoes.
They carry us around so that our feet don't get too bruised.
It may seem to be easier to go out in the nude
To throw up our identities like half-digested food
So maybe it's reductive what I'm trying to pursue.
It's philo-semitism in a cheap semantic ruse.
It's highly problematic and will probably confuse.
And what about us people who are actually Jews?
With traumas all my deconstructed theories can't subdue.
Just ask a gentle German for a history review.
She'll tell you how they marked us with numerical tattoos.
They made us into ashes, hair and lamps and soap and glue.
And no, it wasn't something that I personally knew,
But they taught me all about it in my Temple Sunday School.
And I guess it kind of left me with some hang ups and taboos.
How can we wear the mantle of the martyred ghetto Jews?
We turned our backs on everything that brought our people through.
And did it really work to try to make a new Hebrew?
With the enemies we slew, the hatred grew and grew.
But the thing you hate in others is the thing you hate in you.
Now exile will return like deja vu.
And where it all went wrong nobody knew.
And we will all have to learn it anew;
Not only as a victim, but a perpetrator, too...
So learn to be a Jew, learn to be a Jew.
Learn to be a Post-Israeli Jew
A Jew a Jew, the problem isn't new.
You must be a Jew among the Jews.
IV. Absolution
So when they ask you for your papers and you don't know what to do
Remember in this moment what you're carrying with you
Because the day will come when all your papers are refused
And then you'll find yourself in exile, too.
You’re living in a land and time that aren’t made for you.
You're refugees from wars between religious points of view.
And you shlep around like shackles all the roots from which you grew.
So I talk about the inner Other hiding inside you.
And the name I give this other is a Jew.
But a Jew can be an Arab or a German or a Druze.
So if you have a better name that you would like to use
I'd love to read the testament of you
The imaginary messianic diasporic you
The broken and neurotic post apocalyptic you
See I mean this as a question, not an answer to your blues
The question is the answer and the answer, it is you
And forgive the self-indulgence that I spew
I just wrote this fucking thing where every sentence rhymes with Jew
So bring out your Jew, bring out your Jew.
You may have a Jew inside of you.
A Jew. A Jew. A secret little Jew.
A secret Jew is buried inside you.
V. Revelation
The hour’s getting late and soon we'll have to pay our dues.
We're faced with situations where we all will have to choose;
And no one will recover what we're all about to lose.
And history's a river full of things we'll have to use.
The world is turning colder and the walls are high and true;
The cities all are burning into something dark and new;
The fire and the waste have beat the heavens black and blue
You're refugees from wars between religious points of view
And all the broken borders of the names they put on you
You’re strangers in your home, even stranger sur la rue...
I have a little prophecy for you
An apocalyptic mystery, a clue:
When the world becomes Detroit
We all become like Jews
When Zion is destroyed
The promise will come true
Detroit is all your cities
And Zion is in you
So learn to take it with you
Learn to be a Jew
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7. |
Ekh Lyuli Revisited
04:47
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The Jewish religion is this and this and that:
very early to get up ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli very early to get up
to pour some water on you finger tips
And don’t forget to say the morning prayer with your lips
And to the synagogue to run
Tales and tfiln to put on
And dedicate your soul to the Unknown and Single One
Единому Неведомому душу предавать
И никогда глаза не закрывать
И всё что происходит до конца осознавать.
Ничего не признавать конечной истиной в единственном числе
ведь истин бесконечно много есть у Бога даже если нету Бога на земле есть очень много
конкретных частных истин производных от событий ситуаций не похожих ни на что другое кроме самих себя
а мы похожи я на тебя ты на меня
похожи друг на друга
различий между нами бесконечное число нам повезло событие имеет место быть и может быть оно тебе дано
как место истины твоей и ты тогда живи по ней
не забывай не предавай
глаза не закрывай смотри на истину твою и я с тобою тоже буду вместе
Смотреть на эту истину твою
И петь эту песню
Продолжай идти продолжай идти продолжай идти
хотя другие есть пути но ты
продолжай идти продолжай идти продолжай идти туда куда ты захотел идти тогда когда все стало по-другому
принимай за аксиому эту истину твою такую частную конкретную кому-то не понятную кому-то не заметную но для тебя любимую заветную бессмертную
продолжай идти продолжай идти
продолжай идти не поддавайся ни обману никакому ни дурману ни подобиям ни копиям той истины которую ты любишь ни попыткам обратить её в закон для всей земли ведь эти люли да люли они как сладкие пилюли для уставших жить и двигаться вперед для тех кто знает что умрёт а мы не будем умирать мы будем продолжать идти туда куда мы шли и мы тогда увидим что вдали что впереди ты только никуда не уходи продолжай идти продолжай идти продолжай идти политика победы это знали архимеды и ромео и джульетты и революционеры те которые боролись с богачами и великие поэты древней Греции Овидии Лукреции Вергилии Горации которые имели за плечами не одни лишь только травмы и фрустрации но также и реальные события любовные соития научные открытия могучие стихи и песни мы не стоим на месте добро важнее зла любовь сильнее смерти она уже пришла мы не умрём границу перейдём и будем песни распевать и рюмку водки наливать!. . . // ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli рюмку водки наливать // ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – лехаим-лехаим выпивать
To dedicate your soul to the Unknown and Single One
To never close your eyes
To be fully conscious of everything that happens
To not recognize anything as the ultimate truth in the singular number
For God has infinitely many truths even if there is no God on earth
There are so many specific private truths derived from events and situations
Which are not similar to anything other than themselves
And we are alike, I am like you, you are like me
We look like each other
The differences between us are endless
We are lucky the event has a place to be
And maybe it was given to you
As a place of your truth and you then live on it
Don't forget, don't betray
Do not close your eyes, look at your truth and I will be with you too
Looking at this truth of yours
And sing this song
Keep going keep going keep going
Although there are other paths, but you
Keep going keep going keep going
Where you wanted to go back then when everything became different
Take, as an axiom, that truth of yours, which is so private, so specific
Which is unclear to someone, not noticeable to someone
But to you, it’s your beloved one your cherished one, the immortal
Keep going keep going
Keep going don't succumb to any deception or dope
Or likenesses or copies of the truth that you love,
Neither to attempts to turn it into a law for the whole earth
Because these lyuli and lyuli are like sweet pills
For those who are tired of living and of moving forward
For those who know that they will die
And we, we will not die, we will continue to go where we were going
And then we’ll see what’s far ahead
You just don’t go anywhere
Keep going keep going keep going
The politics of victory
It was known by Archimedes and by Romeos and Juliets
And by the revolutionaries who fought with the rich
And by the great poets of Ancient Greece -
Ovid, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace,
Who had had not only traumas and frustrations,
But also real events, love intercourses, scientific discoveries, mighty poems and songs
We do not stand still
Good is more important than evil
Love is stronger than death
It has already come
We will not die
We will cross the border
And we will sing songs and pour a glass of vodka
Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli
A glass of vodka we will pour
Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli
L’chaim l’chaim will we drink
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8. |
Israel Something
02:17
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Yiddish - epes, Arabish - epes
Hebreyish, Rusish - epes
Ladino un English - epes
Esperanto - nokh an epes, epes, epes, epes
Israel - something, Palestine - something
Theodore Herzl - something
Yitzchok Rabin - something (someone?)
Hamas and Fatah, Hezbullah - something, something, something
Torah - something, Talmud - something
Koran and Bible - something
The Wailing Wall is something
If they build a new third Temple - something, something, something
Muhammad - someone, Moshiach - someone
Barack Obama - someone
Netanyahu - someone
Arafat and Arik Sharon - na na Nachman someone
Jesus Christ and Allen Ginsberg - na na Nachman something
Holocaust - something, Auschwitz - something
Deir Yassin is something
Sabra Shatila - something
Yom Haatzmaut and Yad Vashem - Nakba, Nakba, something
Yom Haatzmaut and Yad Vashem - nothing, Nakba, something
The Boycott is something, the Birthright is something
The IDF is something
PLO is something
Gilad Shalit and Rachel Corey - someone, someone, someone
Gilad Shalit and Rachel Corey - both of them are someone
Cynicism is a very important part of the discourse right now when I talk to people in this county, When I ask them what they think about their politics, they say that everything is gonna end,
Which is exactly what the Evangelicals want to happen.
Apocalypse - something
Irony - something
Stupid songs that try to make it better - something, something, something
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9. |
Eretz Thuringia
01:36
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Some lucky day, I’ll make aliyah
To Eretz Thuringia
Eretz Thuringia, Eretz Thuringia
Eretz Thuringia, where are you?
Some lucky day, I’ll make aliyah
To Eretz Thuringia
Ay ay ay - to Eretz Thuringia
Ay ay ay ay ay ay
There is a train that will take us away
To Weimar, to Erfurt, to Jena today
Eretz Thuringia, beautiful land
Who will lead us there by the hand?
Ay ay ba bay ba ba bay
Tra la la la la la
Some lucky day, I’ll make aliyah
To Eretz Thuringia
Eretz Thuringia, Eretz Thuringia
I’m longing for you!
I’m longing for you!
Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay
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10. |
L’Unternationale
06:17
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Arise, you legions of the damned,
Arise, you wretched starving slaves,
Exploding reason is at hand,
‘Tis the final end of days.
History will reach the zero hour
As the filthy masses rise.
The world will be debased and scoured
As the losers claim their prize.
Armageddon calls
Let the order be replaced
The Unternationale
Will win the human race
There is no heavenly salvation,
No god nor man upon a throne,
To put an end to deprivation,
We must toil as one alone.
There will be no punishment eternal
For the greedy parasite,
Unless we build our own inferno
To extract what's ours by right.
The state will strangle you cheat you,
The taxes bleed you til you're white,
The rich will famish you and eat you
While they speak of human rights.
Nevermore will we let them bite us
With their gnashing vicious jaws,
We'll kill the parasites who blight us
With our unternatural claws.
The great grotesquery of cowards,
The lords of industry and oil,
Have nothing there behind their power
But the might of stolen toil.
It is buried deep in their foundations,
All the capital we've made.
The time has come for reparations,
Let us start the last crusade.
With poison they intoxicate us,
With war they murder us at large,
With hatred they indoctrinate us,
Let us now return the charge.
If these cannibals insist on shooting,
Let us bravely aim and fire.
But the ones we should be executing
Are the ruling class vampires
The melting pot will come to boil,
The bottom rises to the top,
And those who do not till the soil
Will be denied to reap the crop.
How long the vultures have devoured,
Our human flesh and blood.
Their carrion will come to power
In the revolution's flood.
Armageddon calls
Let the order be replaced
The Unternationale
Will win the human race
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