Today’s Tom Sawyer, tomorrow’s Moishe Kapoyer, so help me Rush.

I have been liberated / Let the praise be sung and celebrated / I have been liberated / I am finally free.

All this change, and nothing's changed.

I like you a lot and I think I could love you / I got a feeling that you think that too.

No need for “inner meaning” / Just to get the feeling.

And when the clouds of war darken the air / Her precious heart shines through and reminds me she’s there.

Take whatever you want / but don’t you take away my jellybread.

Tonight we pretend that we never got older / That the romantic in all of us never got colder.

To believe, to be true / To chase dreams and bring them through / Well, that’s / What the music means to me.

Well, I’m so unhip, I’m so uncool / I’m an anachronistic rock’n’roll fool.

I refuse to believe in a system that holds / that there’s only one way to nurture your soul.

We need to stay faithful to our roots and the Reason for what we are in the world.

You’ll level the field, you’ll even the score / You’ll beat that devil, you’ll win the war.

So when you hear that boom you know I’m thinking of you / love is just a cannon shot away.

You have the chance to make yourself heard / About things that will affect us all ...

You can always find me / on my island in the river.

Metropolis had Superman, Gotham City Batman / And Jerusalem had me.

The era is over for thinking small / From this point forward, we’re thinking bigger.

A depiction of Independence Day revelry in Jerusalem, c. 1980s.

Everything was right for so so long / Everything was right! something had to go wrong.