Lekh Leh-Kah

In the city of the moon, by the river and the reeds A man looked up at the endless stars and counted all his seeds He smashed his father's idols in the shadow of the shrine And a voice came out of nowhere, said "Your children will be mine" Lekh leh-KHAH…לך לך. Something's calling in the dark Go from your land… go from your father's house To a land I'll show you Lekh leh-KHAH…לך לך. Through Harran with the flocks, down the long road to the west To the hills of Canaan, where the wanderer could rest Then the famine drove us south, to the Nile and Pharaoh's whip Four hundred years of bricks and straw, and the lash upon our lips Then the plagues came down like judgment, and the sea stood up like walls On a mountain wrapped in thunder, we heard the voice that calls A shepherd boy became a king, a Temple made of gold And the rivers of Babylon… where we wept and we were sold Lekh leh-KHAH…לך לך. Something's calling in the dark Go from your land… go from your father's house To a land I'll show you Lekh leh-KHAH… We came home… we built again… But the eagle came from Rome… The summer of seventy… The ninth of Av… Jerusalem… Then the long walk into exile, seventy generations on Rome and the Rhine and the plague-fires, in Erfurt we were gone To the Lithuanian forest, to the candle and the snow Then the ships to Africa… and wherever we could go Lekh leh-KHAH…לך לך. Something's calling in the dark Go from your land… go from your father's house To a land I'll show you Lekh leh-KHAH…לך לך. And the wind is still… blowing Four thousand years from the city of the moon And the stars above still count us, and they'll call again soon So I look up at the night sky, like he did long ago And I hear the same voice whisper… Lekh leh-KHAH…לך לך. Go…