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Matisyahu - Dispatch the Troops

Daughter of Zion
Once precious princess
Left her father's house
To walk streets that never rest
Maybe they'll hear me in the metropolis
So I'm sending out an SOS
Fighting with her Ta
She wants out of this mess
And those big city lights
Might brighten up the darkness
You know that I'm tired and you know that I'm stressed
You can't stop me and you can't stop this
You could call the police try to make an arrest
Today is the day that I repossess
Leaving on the first bus that I can get
Now its rings around the eyes sopping wet from rain droplets
Window shopping for some solace
No address and penniless
That's the price that you pay for running away from the stress
Feeling the pain likes the dance by the DJ
Reminds me of a time when things were ok
Frightened by her own shadow
Now she wants to go home
Many names for the one God
Trotting on, though the façade
You were all my children
Got a dig for that feeling
Love will break through the concealment
Strip away the serpent's skin
We came to win
Dispatch the troops
Send out the captain
My gem is held captive in the dungeon
Don't come back again until you end the mission
If it takes a long time
Don't lose the vision
If you're stuck
Check the blueprint
Look within
Reflection
Got to find the rhythm
Won't you please return child
Where you been?
She says I can't come home because he won't let me in
And besides we don't need no more friction
Used to look so nice, how'd you get so thin?
With a heart like ice, it's a heart of sin
Skin white like a ghost with a pale complexion
Pray to God for the dead we need resurrection
Don't you know wherever you go thick and thin
You are still my children
Since you've been gone my soul's been hurting
Frightened by her own shadow
Now she wants to go home
Many names for one God
Trotting on, though the façade
You were all my children
Got a dig for that feeling
Love will break down this concealment
Like confident heathen from jack the coat tail
Singing to the top to refill the temple
Jumping up and down, up in a circle
Like a city kid in grounds at the brothel
Singing to the top to refill the temple
Jumping up and down, up in a circle
We want redemption now let's get out of the exile
Man was rock sucking a wall lying Porsche drawn out
The mass star standing demanding
And pop landing on his forehead
Wondering why his companion went into hiding
We spend all trunk through the summer children can't impede impress and kisses up
You phone the brother long
You keep knocking but there's nobody home
You can knock knock knock but there's nobody home, oh oh oh
Wandering through this world
We are all just boys and girls Many names for one God
Trotting on, through the façade
You were all my children
Got a dig for that feeling
Love will break down this concealment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD_pZUJmtLo

Matisyahu Lyrics
"Built To Survive"
(feat. Zion I)

I am awake
Once again
How are you
My old friend

I am awake
I am alive
I have survived
My time is here

Birds sing out
Morning's on the rise
Figure it out
One more chance
One more day
To find a way to say
What I forgot yesterday

Am I built to survive?
Fading colors melt the skies
Shifting winds, sand storms of time
I am yours, you are mine
I am love, play my strings
Play my heart, my memories
I am the song of your glory
I am the splitting of the sea
Am I built to survive?
Fading colors melt the skies
Shifting winds, sands of time
I am yours, you are mine

We flow together like OM
Flesh, blood, it animates poem
Eventually we gravitate home
It's been a long time, it was hard on my soul
But I know you've been good though
Still alive, giving thanks what we should do
The pride is a snake that can hook you
Hey young world
I know you've been put through
All the struggle makes it worthwhile
The clouds go away when your soul smiles
The smile rises up from a dungeon
Locked away so long, let the sun in
The radiance runs in
Humanity's veins, be the change, so abundant
I feel the wave coming
We built to survive
Be the chosen among them

Am I built to survive?
Fading colors melt the skies
Shifting winds, sand storms of time
I am yours, you are mine
I am love, play my strings
Play my heart, my memories
I am the song of your glory
I am the splitting of the sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXi8-lj6G-o&list=PLN75jTwtTsMjmtX_7BxXbm4JtzxKI92G1&index=5

All of my enemies, they surround me
But I will chop them down
Encompass me, but in the name of the Lord
I will cut them down
They push me, they want me to fall
With my back against the wall
My back against the wall

I shall not die
I shall live in the land of the living
I shall not die
I will live in the land of the living

Shooting stars, burning sky, rising with the dawn
Ground is hard, angels cry, son we must move on
Teach me to love
Where are you, o my son, where are you
Ayeka, Ayeka, Ayeka
Teach me to love

They say man is the lamp of God
Well I'm your fog lights in this journey
Through the smog so write it in the logs
And all the blogs and the streets, write it with your feet
When you walk and you talk through the concrete speak,
Spark seek 'til the end of days
Through all the crazy states I'm amazed
Now let the children "rage"

I shall not die, look into your eyes
And I realize that all I know is gone

Shooting stars, burning sky, rising with the dawn
Ground is hard, angels cry, son we must move on
Teach me to love
Where are you, o my son, where are you
Ayeka, Ayeka, Ayeka
Teach me to love, teach me to love
Teach me to love, teach me to love
Teach me to love
Where are you, o my son, where are you
Ayeka, Ayeka, Ayeka
Teach me

Take your blade, rising sun, burns and fades, three long days
Is this your way, here you are, and here I am

Shooting stars, burning sky, rising with the dawn
Ground is hard, angels cry, son we must move on
Teach me to love
Where are you, o my son, where are you
Ayeka, Ayeka, Ayeka
Teach me to love, teach me to love
Teach me to love, teach me to love
Teach me to love
Where are you, o my son, where are you
Ayeka, Ayeka, Ayeka
Teach me
https://youtu.be/b5DFWUJkTfE?si=URIWt9VhcNhNn1FL