Rotem Bar Or feat. Salome - Who

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Who will build the future if not us, who

From this ruined land we will grow

I want to plant a tree inside your heart

Inside my heart

If not us, who

Will magnetize the spring and the gold

If not us, who will love

If not us, who will say Peace

Somehow even now

If not us, who will guard the garden

Will guard and will be happy, so happy

From the bunker will escape until everything blooms again

If not us, who knows that every story is always about them

If not us, who will love

If not us, who

If the mountain does not come to Muhammad

We will go to the mountain

If not us, who

Who will build the future if not us, who

From this ruined land we will grow

I want to plant a tree inside your heart

Inside my heart

If not us, who

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Hagal Hasheni, Rotem Bar Or, Orel Tamuz - The Firefly Rebellion

2020 was a challenging year, to say the least, but it made way for musical collaborations that would probably never have happened otherwise like Roy Rieck's project Hagal Hasheni (The second wave). The project began at the beginning of the first lockdown and a double album was released in September, just in time for the actual second wave. The idea behind the project is playful and brilliant: Rieck asked artists to send him unfinished drafts that they had lying around-lyrics without music, or music without lyrics, and then he would send it to other artists to work on. Rotem Bar Or from the Angelcy said in an interview that Rieck was bugging him to send his part so one morning he came up with the lyrics from the top of his head and sent them to Rieck in a WhatsApp voice message. Orel Tamuz took the reins from there and the result is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard this year.

The flowers bloom

And the convoy passes

And the melody returns

To the umbilical cord

The dead walk

To search for another peace

She goes down to the underground

She goes down to the essence

The world falls

Into a dark pit

Inside a dark pit

The lights play all night, yes

Suddenly lost

In an untitled moment

Suddenly children in a movie

Children without direction

She says to tell the

Story which connects

The ocean to the pinky

The sun to nothing

The world falls

Into a dark pit

Inside a dark pit

The lights play all night, yes