Far Above the Death and Destruction
Note: I've taken Rabbi Brant Rosen's stirring revisiting of Psalm 126 and set it within the chanted plainsong tradition, Tone 1.1, common in churches of east and west. Brant captures the bold and defiant biblical tradition: imagining liberation and justice and a just peace in the land.
You can see me chanting it here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/uBq59-mHobM?si=rWnfqpSNq92KPyRY
Refrain: You will reap, will reap with song...hear it, hear it even now.
You will return.
This nightmare will end
and you will re-turn.
Your mouths will be filled
with laugh-ter and joy-ous song.
When the missles and bombs
are silenced from the la-nd
When the militarized walls
and fences and checkpoints
finally crum-ble in-to the dust
Refrain: You will reap, will reap with song...hear it, hear it even now.
No, it will not be a dream
You will return from this e-xile,
flowing back like water
springing up from the bar-ren parched desert.
Those who sowed with tears
will reap with so-ng.
Listen carefully and
you will hear it ev-en now.
A glorious ascending melody
guid-ing your ste-ps
coaxing you back,
beckon-ing you home.
Refrain: You will reap, will reap with song...hear it, hear it even now.
