Amit Dagan - The Mulberry Tree

 

My favorite song from Amit Dagan's soulful new album Ground Floor.

On Friday, I read the newspaper
Four hundred thousand people went out to the Ayalon

And I care about it, but I have no solution

In any case, everyone knows what's right

Sometimes I look out the window

Like looking at reality from within imagination

What is sanity and what is madness

Is it in me or is reason outside

So I went out to the mulberry tree in the yard

There I am not in a hurry

And I have no worries

And I knew that time doesn't really stop

Soon all this will be over

I have no choice

And I look enviously

At the children in the yard

Trampoline, swings, and rope

And for years I don't know what to say

Everything feels worn out, stale, and unnecessary

They say not to cry over what has passed

And that you should look towards tomorrow

When a day passes, it gives me an opportunity for another day

And a new day offers itself to support, to lean on

I need to hold on tight, not to leave, not to let go

I need me now, I need a friend now

So I went out...