Shelter Under Stars

(mmm-mmm) I came to You with nothing

No answers left to hide

The world grew very quiet

And something opened inside

I thought I had to find You

Somewhere beyond the blue

But You were in the silence And I was there with You

And for a moment I could feel

What I forget the rest of the year

That underneath it all

You were always here

Hashem, I love You

More than these words can say

I felt You close beside me

On Yom Kippur that day

And when the fast was over

I didn't want to let You go

So I'll build a little shelter

And make Your presence home

Now the leaves are turning

And the autumn light is gold

I'm leaving what feels certain

For a shelter I can hold

The walls are barely walls here

The stars are shining through

And somehow in this little space I'm closer back to You

Maybe we don't need forever

To know that something's real

Maybe the fragile places

Are where we're meant to feel

Come sit beside me

Come share this night

Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov

Under the candlelight

Moshe, Aharon, Yosef David,

come near

And all the souls before us Whose footsteps brought us here

And maybe there are strangers Who won't be strangers long

Because joy gets bigger When we make room for everyone

I don't know how redemption

Will look when it arrives

Maybe like a sudden sunrise Maybe like opening our eyes

But I believe the exile

Is not the final song

And somewhere underneath the waiting We've been coming home all along

From Yom Kippur into Sukkot

From the whisper to the light

From turning back to Heaven

To dancing through the night

Hashem, I love You And I know You hear my heart

You found me in the quiet

Before I knew where to start

Now let the world remember

What the soul already knows

That love was never lost here It was waiting to be shown

So I'll sit beneath the starlight And let the old walls fall

If redemption is awakening Then let it awaken us all Hashem,

I love You Under the same sky From Yom Kippur's holy silence

To the joy that's coming by

And if this is the beginning

Then let the beginning be

A world that's finally coming home A people finally free

I'll leave a light on

I'll leave the doorway wide

For You, for all who wander

For the ones still coming home

I'll leave a light on

Under the same sky

And wait for redemption

With love in my eyes