Matisyahu Refuge Lyrics

At that time, we had a real understanding of a king, you know. For us, we don't know so much what's a kingdom or a king. We live in a world of fragmentation, where the majority of the people don't appreciate or care about so much about the person that's running things. At that time, the king was the people. The king was the people, meaning that all the people were a part of the king. The king loved the people with his whole heart. He would do anything for them. He was not just a politician, but he was a warrior... a general on the front lines. He would die for his people. He was a singer, a writer, a poet, all of these different things... a real person

Ani auni vevyone. Hashem yashav li. Ezrati, umafalti, atau.
As for me, I am poor and destitute.
Hashem my G-d will think about me. My help, my rescuer, you are.

My word is like a hammer like a shattering rock,
crack through your heart and take the evil apart

From the end of the earth unto you I call,
time and again I fall, back to you I crawl
You have been a refuge for me,
a tower of strength in the face of the enemy
Enemy, enemy lines I find I let myself get tied up too many times
You can't have my heart I'm taking back what's mine
I know it lie just smoke in your eye
and you saved my soul from the other side

When faint grows my heart to a rock
that too hard for me to climb alone lead me
For you have been a refuge

With you I smash a troop and with my G-d I leap over a wall
May the king answer you on the day that you call
Stand tall, battle yawl, from the clouds crawl low, all stalled,
heavens lay draped over New York like a prayer shawl,
the holy one enthroned upon the praises of Israel

Pathways of my heart clogged like a traffic jam
From the start, I want to take the blockage apart