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HaMakom HaMushlam - The
Perfect Place
by Subliminal ft. Sivan
Translation by Kol Cambridge
I'm always in the air
Buffeted about like a leaf in the wind
Around me everything flies by
And only I am standing here, my place insecure
Chorus
So I dream of the perfect place
Of a warm home, time without end
A place in which all is calm
But I'm swept away with all of the world's pressures
And so the moment disappears,
And nothing is known
So come tell me how to live here, it’s expensive and over the top
And the only thing in abundance is baseless hatred
Come tell me how we're not ashamed
Today they'll even hire foreign workers for a minyan*
So come tell me how another millennium went by
I feel like we haven't even crossed the desert yet
Come tell me where is the blue & white?
Where's the leader who sees the big picture?
Why's water from abroad and petrol diluted?
There's an unbearable heat but troubles come in a flood
Political assassination, brutality at every age
Drugs and car accidents, the polluted [River] Kishon
When will the rains turn to the Negev?
Or tears of joy replace tears of sadness?
Or the state once more have some respect -
Have a constitution or courts, or a train network that works?
We’re running in a circle, no way to escape
From the walls of the temple to the security wall
It all repeats itself, God help us!
Like a puppet an entire people is dancing to the piper
It’s 2006, I live and am ashamed
That the army of defence is called the army of occupation
An invading army, how are we not ashamed?
We’re spitting in the very well that we drink from
Chorus
So I dream of the perfect place...
For my nation is all at odds with itself
And I can’t find myself at all
It took us so long to establish what we dreamed of -
Suddenly it's fallen
(x2)
Chorus
So I dream of the perfect place…
* Congregation of ten men required for a religious service
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