סמוראי [Samorai] [English translation]

A punch up, a punch down

Meditation and the bible

Where we are you get what you give

The art of war which sanctifies words as if they were swords

No pain, no gain 1

I hear the wind whistling through the trees

I see the truth passing through the eves 2

Losses and victories, a samurai, this is the life

We're souls who look for the right frequencies

And we're all students, and all is still lessons

A punch forward, a punch back

The one who shuts up is a son of a bitch

I refuse to see the grey

I build the backdrop with a metaphor

I communicate with the upper worlds

Through words which cut their way through stone

When the Creation communicates with my mind

Shows me its face and I show it

Mine, still wake up in the morning and say my thanks,

Everyone after me, and tell myself,

You're a student, you're a samurai

Even if I brought cry, blood and tears

I've sharpened my sword, a thousand nights

I've no doubt in me, no perhaps

I'm still a blazing fire, still a samurai

All according to the samurai doctrine, all from deep in my youth

The voice inside my head has dug the pit deep 3

And hasn't let my dreams sink, all I've left is thank the spirit above

I want to believe that I'm deserving, entitled

Equal among equals, no one is above me or below

I still haven't turned a musician or politician

Boiling blood in my veins, I have a Moroccan mentor

"You and I will change the world" 4

At night I float between the roofs and disappear

To the skies, twice I've vented for it's good

I've not progressed in classes,

I've developed methods, sowed with a tear

And reaped with joy, accepted the weight of the task

Walla, a blessing from Allah, I've kept on writing

I've stuck with the my military code

My soul is burning and my spirit is alive

Today I open my mouth and cut with my words

In the crossroads of battles I cross between worlds

Always in the deep of depths I fulfill my dreams

If we were to see the universe as extended arms

We would explode as if 72 virgins are waiting for us

chorus

You know,

There was this guy in elementary who practiced karate

(ok)

And in his senior year he was something like a national champion

And when they came to start a fight with him he would run away

(what?)

And I was dying to see him bury them

I asked "How come you don't fight back?" and he said to me

(so?)

That what he did to me I don't remember

And what I woulda done to him - he would not forget

(you know it's a cool sentence)

And we're also a bit like that

For years we've practiced at barraging words as fast as possible

Only to say them slow, only to say a few

There are no just words

You can bury a person's soul with just one swipe of a word 5

(one swipe of a word)

That's why exactly because we've gotten where we wanted

We'll keep on going to practice, and we'll persevere, sweat, spit blood

And never look at the clock

Nor ask for the result, we'll trust the method

We'll go to come back like a chorus

Like the kid who run away from that melee in triumph

1. lit. If you worked your hardest and found something, believe in it. 2. lt. gaps. Just wanted to make it rhyme a bit. 3. 'kol' means "all" and also "voice" in Hebrew. 4. Song with the same name. https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%95%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%... 5. There is no word play here in Hebrew, just wanted to compensate for the rest in this song.

• Artist:Ravid Plotnik
• Album:ועכשיו לחלק האומנותי