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[ Old Buk In The Holy City ] [ By Moshe Benarroch ]
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Old Buk in the holy city
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By Moshe Benarroch
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THE MEMORY OF THE STREETS
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They wanted to forget
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And we wanted
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to remember
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We asked about the odors
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And they smiled
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Then they said
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Why would you
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want to know
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We asked about the streets
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About the corners
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About the names
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And they said
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That is the past
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But our questions were
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our most urgent present
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They didn't want to remember
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And we didn't want to forget
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We held on to every face in our memories
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To every street to every corner
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To the children we were
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We remembered the color of the sand
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And the smell of shells
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The view of the sea
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And a few people
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We held on to things
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Because our lives
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Depended on them
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We held on to fragments of our memories
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Till the horns of the altar
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But our parents wanted to forget
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We will never know what they wanted to forget
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Was it the gentle and beautiful memories
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Or the memory of the hard change
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Was the confrontation so hard
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The abyss between the present and the past
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Did they think from time to time they made a mistake
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And erased these thoughts forgetting
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They wanted to forget
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But didn't succeed
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in making us forget.
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2000 YEARS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
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We missed Jerusalem
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and not Tel Aviv
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we missed
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the temple
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and not McDonald
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and now everybody's talking
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about common sense
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economic future
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Israeli shares
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standard of leaving
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and financial peace
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for every piece.
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And I say to you
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all these things will pass
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from the world
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and forever
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in this world
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will remain
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the longing.
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SO LONG WONDERFUL ATHEIST
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I read Bukowsky
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so long
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my friend
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hope you have
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discovered
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there's life after
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the tomb
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the horses
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the women
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and
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the wine
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and I say to myself
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what's a guy like me
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who believes
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in the coming of the messiah
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and the reconstruction of the temple
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doing
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reading Bukowsky
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and it reminds me of a poet friend
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who used to read Elliot
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in the synagogue
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Elliot may be ok
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but Bukowsky...
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yes, it is coming
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I prefer one Bukowsky
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a German guy telling the truth naked
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to a thousand rabbis
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discussing the Kashrout of a cucumber
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And immediately after saying it
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I feel Tremendous
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guilt.
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uXu #418 Underground eXperts United 1998 uXu #418
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