My favorite line of this song is “When we don’t have the words to praise you, O Lord/Let our actions and our lips, and our songs and our hips/”. There are many ways to express our connection to the spiritual, be it though our actions, speech, our movements, learning, our businesses, creative endeavors, or the way we relate to others. Let everything we do be our prayer.
Special thanks to: Tovah Leah Nachmani
Text: Orot HaKodesh - Lights of Holiness - vol. II, pp. 444-445 by Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook
lyrics
Oh, God, I’m tired of this rain
Tired of the rain not comin’
Jerusalem sits and waits for You
We’re sitting in a winter song
And while we’re waiting…
We’ll sing a song to You, song to You, song to You, song to You
Song to You, song to You, song to You, song to You
Let the rain fall down, let the rain fall down
Insert Hebrew here
Or anytime of year
When we don’t have the words to praise you, O Lord
Let our actions and our lips, and our songs and our hips
as we dance and sway
While we are praying, while we are swaying, oh, hear what we’re saying
With our song to You, song to You, song to You, song to You
Song to You, song to You, song to You, song to You
Our lost brothers and our sisters
Join us in our dance
Oh, our brothers and our sisters
We can all take the chance
To be caught singing a song together
To be caught singing all to You together
To be caught singing and praising and loving and laughing
Singing a song to You
Song to You, song to You, song to You, song to You
Song to You, song to You, song to You, song to You
Rain or no rain
Pain or no pain
credits
from The God Album,
released December 17, 2015
Vocals – Rory Michelle
Backing vocals – Olivia Brownlee
Drums – Anthony Cimino
Electric guitar & bass – Jay Psaros
Percussion – Jay Psaros
Rory Michelle Sullivan is a singer-songwriter, composer, musician, and educator whose work explores relating to ourselves,
others, and a spiritual Source in healthy, authentic, creative, and constructive ways.
She has recorded and performed her songs internationally, from parlor rooms in Jerusalem to bars in Vienna to Jimmy’s No. 43 in NYC’s East Village.
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