Tear Down The Walls by Rick Recht

Rick Recht performing Tear Down The Walls at NFTY-TOR's Fall Conclave 2009.

Lyrics:
Beneath our skin
The action we take
The strength we find
The changes we make
The hand we hold to a safer place
The courage to speak
Face to face

From our ears to our hands
To the ground where we stand
We are holy and whole
Every woman and man
Being together is being alive
Only together will we survive

Chorus-
We can tear down the walls
Brick by brick, one by one
Until our love is greater than fear
Until we remember why we are here

We can tear down the walls
Every daughter every son
So we can build on better land
We can remember where weve come from
We can tear down the walls

Sometimes the stranger is someone new
Sometimes the stranger is part of you
The distance we make can cause so much pain
Or time to turn and look again

The birth of a child
The months of the year
Through the hurt and the healing
Hope reappears
Sometimes a field must burn to the ground
For fertile land to come around

Chorus

Mamlechet Kohanim
A priestly nation are we
When weve been starved of our hope and our homes and our lives
Weve survived on our responsibility

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