Chop 'em Down Lyrics - Live At Stubb's: Austin, Tx 2/19/05 [live] - Matisyahu

From the forest itself comes the hand for the ax 

Split this wilderness listen up this ain't where it's at 

Clear a path so that you could find your way back 

Chop 'em down, chop 'em down; chop 'em down, chop 'em down 

Time flies by like clouds passing in the sky lifetimes hear and gone like the blink of an eye 

March through this desert one-step at a time, march through the desert one step at a time 

Chorus: From the forest itself comes the handle for the ax, 

Drop the staff Moshe rabbainu split the ocean in half, 

March through the desert this ain't where it's at 

Chop 'em down, Chop 'em down 

Patterns engraved not so easily erased, still wandering trying to find your place 

Playing the game I see pain on your face now a day's the yiddin like children sold as slaves 

Strange ways running through the maze, strange ways always lost in the desert trying to 

find to find your place lost in the desert trying to find your place 

From the forest itself comes the hand for the ax 

Split this wilderness listen up this ain't where it's at 

Clear a path so that you could find your way back 

Chop 'em down, chop 'em down; chop 'em down, chop 'em down 

Joseph descended sold as a slave, 

thrown into a dungeon cause he wouldn't be swayed 

Interpreted pharaoh's dreams and Egypt was saved 

stock piled food for seven years of rain 

then sold to all the nations when the drought came 

Joseph rose to power and the yiddin stayed 

They started to build and success was made 

Pharos getting worried let's make them pay bound in chains 

First born was sent down to their graves 

Moshe was saved and a prince he was raised 

Hashem spoke to him hears a message to relay 

Take my Nation from Mitzrayim (Egypt) I see the suffering 

Hard hearts ego breaks take sparks and make way 

Trail blaze through the wasteland breaking the chains 

Last generation just the ruminants 

March through the desert leaving footprints 

Peel off the lid this is just plastic, get into it, get into it 

Heavy hitter stepping solid never quitter jump into the ocean before it split got a jump into it 

Rip through Egypt rip through it, 

get into it, 600,000 witnessed it, no you didn't forget 

In the spiritual desert things are not what they seem 

snakes camouflaged just fit the scene 

Put your faith in a mirage it's just a smoke screen 

The king is sitting on his thrown of glory