Tuna - Between the city and the orchard

Tuna is back with a moving song that manages to capture the feelings of instability and uncertainty that we've all felt in one way or another in the past six months. Tuna being Tuna, he also offers much-needed comfort during this challenging time, which in many ways feels more difficult than the chaotic weeks right after October 7th. I posted a while back Tuna's mega-hit 'This Too Shall Pass' and recently discovered that it's one of the songs on a playlist created by Carmel Gat's friends, of songs that she loved and would share with them. Carmel, an occupational therapist, was taken hostage on October 7th from her parents' house in Kibbutz Be'eri and had recently returned to Israel after a few months in India. It was reported from hostages released in November that Carmel was held captive together with children and would practice yoga with them. I can only hope that in the long months that have passed she has been able to somehow take care of herself, mentally and physically. Like DJ JuVi says at the end of the song, the East is wilder than ever but we're pushing through, continuing with all our strength because there is really no other choice.

The IDF entered Gaza, so I went to my dad's for a while

On the background of chakalaka, paka paka, Mada, Zaka

A contract is over, which is a sign that we'll end the saga

And I don't have a roof, which is a sign that I probably have no ground

And I don't have any motivation, and I'm also not in the mood

As if it wasn't tense enough, we got into another argument

So there is no one place right now, there is no safe place

Feeling disappointed by the world, it feels like there is no supervision

Feeling disappointed by the world, I rated the hospitality

What was so urgent for them to bite the apple?

Who likes changes anyway? Not me

Winter is coming, I'm wandering, a gypsy

A homeless superstar, a vegetarian carnivore

From home to the parents and from there to an Airbnb

Between the city and the orchard, on roads under fire

Where will the wind blow? It's still impossible to guess

The future is still unclear so this rap is dedicated

To anyone like me who is searching

To anyone who needs a new route

And is stuck in Beirut because of the Waze disruptions 

All that's left is to embrace

What's been left behind

Between the city and the orchard

I'm looking for a place again

A place I am happy to return to

And just as I'm relaxed on the mic

Between us, I'm still trying really hard

It hurt too much to see, a home here is just walls

Huge shows, there was a place to escape to

Only when everything stopped did I process what I'd been through

Slowly I became someone I didn't know

I disappeared into myself so it wouldn't hurt you
So it wouldn't hurt me, yes, that's very romantic

My heart is broken but the time has come for me to choose me

The house is empty now like Salame is empty of the Barby

Home, home, home, I have a home in my heart

I didn't have it, I didn't know it was possible, it's natural

I didn't know I deserved a place even without it

That I would have to save everyone around me

What is home, home, home? Not walls, not pots

Not familiar smells, not the northern or the southern landscape

It's just where it feels good to be me

And fences don't suddenly break down just like that

And I won't be one nor will I find one

If I won't be my own home

All that's left is to embrace

What's been left behind

Between the city and the orchard

I'm looking for a place again

A place I am happy to return to

JuVi here,

The East is wilder than ever

We're continuing with all our strength

Never stopping

Still on the horse

Niro, Yakir, you did it again

A new Tuna album is on the way...

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Tuna - This Too Shall Pass

End of the decade special! I never got around to posting this song when it came out, partly because I was intimidated by all the 90s references in the lyrics. I used a bit of the translation by Israeli Music Playlists, which is one of the comments on the YouTube page and was very helpful to me. Looking back, it's definitely one of the best videos of the decade. Itay Zvulon, the man behind Tuna, said that he digitally reconstructed many of the 90s artifacts, in a process which took months to complete. The result isn't only impressive aesthetically but also captures the 90s nostalgia that was a big part of this past decade when we were all yearning for a simpler time (for those of us who were kids in the 90s at least).
I thought about this song when the news broke that there will be elections for the third time in a year. My first reaction was anger, mixed with shame and frustration. So much public money will be flushed down the toilet, all because of a Prime Minister indicated on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust who will do everything to remain in power. But there was also a small feeling of hope that this too shall pass and we'll wake up on March 3rd to a new era. Maybe.

They found a time to break your heart, eh?
And the world, as if nothing happened, still turns around, eh?
What can I say to you? Let's see...
No, I don't have any cliches to throw in any case
If it hurts, then it hurts
I'm here, if you want, to drink, to pour your heart out
It's hard to see you fade
And also listen, maybe it's too soon to go dirty
After all, maybe you'll get back together, maybe there'll even be a wedding...
Actually fuck it, what a bitch
Come on, they should know it hurts
Peres also got his heart broken once
A man, what does he deal with?
Guilt, pity, a lonely heart
I understand that it's a bit hard to cheer up
But I checked the statistics and listen:

This too shall pass
Like Kinley, like the techno, like Crocs
This too shall pass
Like film, like Lior Miller, Samantha Fox
This too shall pass
Like the CDs, like the Walkman, you'll soon see
Time heals everything, it heals everything
If not everything, then most and this too shall pass...

And the days go by slowly
Suddenly it's hardest on Saturdays
Suddenly a mass of advice
Everybody's a professor of being bummed out
Look at the half-full glass
I poured a bit of whiskey into it, it'll hold for another hour
I don't have any advice because who am I?
You're smart, you realize it's temporary
Yes, true, you'll remain a little scarred
Life isn't Saranga, not everything is smooth
How did Haz"l say?
Love will eventually arrive and in the end you'll say it was luck
Until then, lay your head on a dune
In your headphones a CD by Tuna
I need you strong
When I'll be down, remind me that...

This too shall pass
Like Kinley, like the techno, like Crocs
This too shall pass
Like film, like Lior Miller, Samantha Fox
This too shall pass
Like CDs, like the Walkman, you'll soon see...
Time heals everything, it heals everything
If not everything, then most and this too shall pass...
Like the talk show, like Napster, Soda Club,
This too shall pass
Like Netscape, like Blockbuster, Zahav Cable
This too shall pass
Like Y2K, the Tamagotchi, you'll soon see
Time heals everything, it heals everything
If not everything, then most and this too shall pass...
Like Kapulsky, like the pouch, the TLV nightclub
This too shall pass
Like the Tyrannosaurus, like grunge, like landline phones
This too shall pass
Like Ruth Gonzales, Ronen Harazi, Dana Modan
Like skinny jeans, the Taverna show, Eden band, Eyal Barkan
Like Hulk Hogan, like a hangover, Michal Zuaretz, Richard Gere
Hanoch Rosen, Saddam Hussein, Burekas films, Karin Ophir
Like Telad, like the pog games, the Macarena, the innocence
Like skates, Peter Andre, Atari consoles
The loneliness