Deborah Conway | Book Of Life

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The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah is a time to blow the Shofar, a ram’s horn, and celebrate with apple and honey for a sweet New Year. Ten days later the sombre day of atonement, Yom Kippur, is a day of fasting and repenting for your sins of the previous year. 

On Rosh Hashanah you will be inscribed in the book of life and on Yom Kippur you will be sealed. Your fate for the next 12 months is written. “... who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by upheaval, who by plague, who by strangling, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquillity and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted.”

This song is called BOOK OF LIFE

Deborah Conway | Book Of Life  

(Lyrics)

Everybody's empty but it's not for food
And everybody's praying here to be rescued
Examining our sins it is hard not to conclude
We're screwed

The world's in flames
These maddened days of black and white
No shades of grey to keep at bay the darkest night
There's never been a song that could save a life
Aha.

(CHORUS)
Blow the horn, blow the horn

Give a voice to all the mournful souls

Who search to be reborn tonight
Forgiveness like the sharpest knife
Oh God inscribe me in the Book of Life
I've been hungry since before the dawn

Tired and full of un-cried tears I still can't shed 
Stored up with the unsaid things we never said
You wanted forgiveness
I wasn't ready yet
Now you're dead

To all the souls who lost themselves I sing for you
Apart from that there's nothing more that I can do
And though I know it's useless
It kind of helps me through
Mm hmm
(CHORUS)
I want to see my children out in the world
Grown into women from little girls
Why wouldn't you want that too?
The older you get the more friends you lose

Next year I won't disappear in fire or flood
Next year I'll still be here to do some good
I won't be taken by pills or thrills or wine
I should be doing fine
(CHORUS)
 I've been hungry since before the dawn