LYRIC
CANDLES- Sung & Composed By Mordechai Ben David- Moshiach Is Coming Soon
As the world lies silent, mother lights the candles,
and she cries, and smiles,
and wipes the teardrops from her eyes,
the Shabbos is born in our home.
I feel the sudden warmth, the sudden change of air,
as we stand with all the Malachim there,
if I could only keep the Kedusha here and bring the whole world to see…
I’d have them stand around me and watch me say Amen,
and after me they all would do the same.
I know they would, there’s no need to explain how grateful they would be.
If only I could tell them,
if only they would know,
just what it is that makes the Shabbos so holy,
and if I could only show them,
the beauty of this day,
they would keep it too and we’d send this Golus away.
Everyone’s singing, describing all the splendor
of this world of creation;
the sudden day, the sudden night;
everything beautiful, bright.
Then there was a sudden warmth, a sudden change of air
as flowers and grass dressed up the atmosphere
if I could only keep the Kedusha there and bring the whole world to see…
All the birds, and the fish, and the animals, big and small,
blossoming trees and water to feed them all,
and man was formed to heed his Master’s call;
the world was completed.
And then the sun began to lower,
the world was all done,
the day of Shabbos, of rest and beauty for everyone,
Vayivorech es yom hashvi’I, vayekadesh oso,
Ki vo shavos mikol milachto.
Everyone’s singing, describing all the splendor
of this world of creation;
the sudden day, the sudden night;
everything beautiful, bright.