Alive

  • Lyrics: Ehud Manor
  • Music: Avi Toledano
  • Arrangements: Nenci Brandes
  • Album: Golden Album (1986)

Translated by Malka Tischler
  • Lyrics

Alive

Listen, my brothers, I'm still alive

And my two eyes are still raised to the light

Many are my thorns, but also my flowers

And ahead of me are years too numerous to count

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

A psalm passes from generation to generation

Like a spring from long ago, and on to eternity

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

Alive, alive, alive - Yes, I'm still alive!

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]

I'm still alive, alive, alive

The people of Israel live

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]!

My days and nights are full of life,

And in my sky the pillar of fire still rises

I will sing endlessly

I'll spread out my hands

To my friends across the sea.

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

Alive, alive, alive - Yes, I'm still alive!

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]

I'm still alive, alive, alive

The people of Israel live

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]!

Listen my brothers, I'm still alive

And my two eyes are still raised to the light

So here's to life! To all my guests,

And to my children who seek to return

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

Alive, alive, alive - Yes, I'm still alive!

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]

I'm still alive, alive, alive

The people of Israel live

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]!

Alive alive alive

Alive alive alive

Alive, I'm still alive alive alive!