Built to Survive - Matisyahu, Zion I

I am awake

Once again

How are you

My old friend

I am awake

I am alive

I have survived

My time is here

Birds sing out

Morning’s on the rise

Figure it out

One more chance

One more day

To find a way to say

What I forgot yesterday

Am I built to survive?

Fading colors melt the skies

Shifting winds, sand storms of time

I am yours, you are mine

I am love, play my strings

Play my heart, my memories

I am the song of your glory

I am the splitting of the sea

Am I built to survive?

Fading colors melt the skies

Shifting winds, sands of time

I am yours, you are mine

We flow together like OM

Flesh, blood, it animates poem

Eventually we gravitate home

It’s been a long time, it was hard on my soul

But I know you’ve been good though

Still alive, giving thanks what we should do

The pride is a snake that can hook you

Hey young world

I know you’ve been put through

All the struggle makes it worthwhile

The clouds go away when your soul smiles

The smile rises up from a dungeon

Locked away so long, let the sun in

The radiance runs in

Humanity’s veins, be the change, so abundant

I feel the wave coming

We built to survive

Be the chosen among them

Am I built to survive?

Fading colors melt the skies

Shifting winds, sand storms of time

I am yours, you are mine

I am love, play my strings

Play my heart, my memories

I am the song of your glory

I am the splitting of the sea