Ekh Lyuli Lyuli

The jewish faith is this and this and this - you have to get up early Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – you have to get up early You have to get up early, pour water onto your fingertips, Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – pour water onto your finger tips Pour water onto your fingertips, say the first morning prayer Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – say the first morning prayer Say the first morning prayer, go to synagogue Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – go to synagogue Go to the synagogue, put on your tallis and tephillin Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – put on your tallis and tephillin Put on your tallis and tephillin, Dedicate your soul to the Single and Unknown One And never close your eyes Stay alert and conscious, Don't take anything for an ultimate truth, Question everything, Never get into any mental trap Never get into any conceptual conundrum, This is what Lenin teaches us to do, This is how old uncle Lacan teaches us to behave, Read Zizek, translate 'Borderline', Be rash enough to change what wants to be changed And to create by yourself what wants to be created We don't have to wait for other people to do our job for us Yesterday it was too early, tomorrow it will be too late, do it here and now Think of yourself in terms of class struggle Concrete analyses of concrete circumstances The feeling of the moment Put aside all sentiments All those lyuli da lyuli They are like sweet pills for the ideologically retarded And we, we look around without any rose-colored glasses, And without black-tinted decadent glasses either It is possible to be both a realist and an optimist It is possible to wait for the future But not to see dreams, not to tell fortunes Just to create your fortune by yourself By means of a direct action Which is sometimes unnoticeable But this is what makes you immortal Our ancestors knew this, and they won We shall follow them and liberate ourselves, And songs shall we sing, and vodka shall we drink Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – vodka shall we drink Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – lechaim shall we drink