Today I Am A Man by Liberated Wailing Wall


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Today I Am A Man
by Liberated Wailing Wall

Album: Times And Seasons


Oy gevalt it's getting late,
All this food is on my plate.
I should try to but I cannot eat a bite,
Mama says if I'm to grow
(and she says that she should know)
Then I should eat my food and not put up a fight.
But today is the beginning of the world for me.
It's the day I have to do the best I can.
Yesterday, if as they say, I was a little boy,
Then today, today I am a man.

Yesterday if as we say you were a little boy,
Then today, today you are a man.

Now the time is getting near,
And all the relatives are here,
And they pinch my cheek,
And they tell me how I've grown,
And they ask what are my plans,
And how it feels to be a man,
And if tomorrow I'll extend them a loan.
My little brother wants to know,
If I'll come out and play.
But I had to tell him I don't think I can.
Yesterday I would have gone,
Without a second thought.
But I can't today, cause I'm a man.

Yester you would have gone without a second thought,
But you can't today, cause you're a man.

I'm as nervous as can be,
And I hope no one can see,
That I'm literally shaking like a leaf.
Now the Torah is unrolled.
And my name is being called.
And I'm thinking that my speech is much too brief.
All my friends and all my relatives are smiling now.
And my parents are as proud as they can be.
Yesterday I looked to them just like a little boy.
But today, the man they see is me.

Yesterday you looked to us just like a little boy,
But today................

Many years have come and gone,
Tho' it doesn't seem that long.
Since I celebrated my bar mitzvah day.
Now my son is near the time,
When he too must learn his lines.
And with nervousness rehearse the words he'll say.
Yet it comforts him to know that in Jerusalem,
A bar mitzvah boy confounded older men.
For now like me he's found Y'shua.
And believes in him.
And he approaches his bar mitzvah born again.


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