Shabak Samech - I Fall Down and Rise

I recently came across Jimbo J's moving cover of this song, as part of Beit Avi Chai's wonderful "Song of Hope" series. Some of the episodes are translated into English here. I rediscovered Shabak Samech's timeless hit from 2000 and just had to share this wild video clip, so fitting for these strange and challenging days. 

The road is long and winding

I fall down and rise

I will never stop walking

I fall down and rise

Passing one bridge after another

I fall down and rise

How long the road is...

I stand with my head raised

They say love is one in a million

They say there's no chance the sun will shine on me

They say I'll fall, that I'll run away

They say I'll be left alone

That I don't fit with life

Because I lack the desire for gold and jewels

I don't have the right cards

Maybe it's society that crumbles

If this place isn't right for rainbow seekers

For those who ignore the signs of the times

And where is my star?

People, I exist

To you I may seem without value

But I have a soul, I have a song, I have the way

The road is long and winding...

Before me a column of fire, behind me clouds of smoke

I left a city of metal behind, where am I going?

To a place where the sun is not hidden by buildings

Beyond the mountains to the fields of green

For there is a sweeter place than this

Where there is a longer time, as much as we need

A moment comes when we have to think

To spread our wings, say goodbye and leave

To a place where I can be myself

After 2000 years of exile, want to be free

Beyond the horizon, where the birds are singing

There I shall go and until then I'll sing

How long the road is, and how winding,

I do not stop walking, I can't stop

Leaving behind my fears and sorrow

Everything is all, I must continue

Everything that happens, I know it should

I am the fire that cannot be extinguished

the music will take me up and deep

The road is long, walking it is to live

The road is long and winding...

Every ending is a new beginning

Sorrow is a sign that happiness soon comes

I am not competing and not at war

My head's in the clouds, feet on the ground

 

The road is long and winding...

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