Can't Skip the Bitter (to Get to the Sweet)

Описание: This song is inspired by the Torah podcast A Book Like No Other, featuring Rabbi David Fohrman. If you'd like to understand what the lyrics are really about, check out our 7th season on the manna and the Israelites' healing process during the Exodus: https://members.alephbeta.org/library...

Full transparency, this song was generated through AI (Claude and Suno) based on transcripts of the podcast. A Book Like No Other itself, the research behind it, the ideas explored and the editorial of the episodes are all done by humans. The humans at Aleph Beta. You can visit us at Alephbeta.org.

Lyrics:
(Verse 1) In Egypt the bread held the taste of our tears
Sourdough—you couldn't tell where it stopped
The sourness baked into four hundred years
Until the whole batch was bitter and locked
But God didn't hand us the honey that night
Didn't say: forget it, here's something new
He gave us flat bread with bitter alongside—
Separated. Still there. Still true.

(Chorus) You can't skip the bitter to get to the sweet
You can't leave the sorrow behind
The only way forward is going back through it
One morning at a time

(Verse 2) The manna came later, the honey came slow
Forty years of daily bread
Each day God was asking: do you believe now
that you’re more than the tears that you’ve shed?
And every spring we sit down at the table
Flat bread and bitter, side by side
Not because we're still slaves—because we remember
What it took to come back alive

(Chorus) You can't skip the bitter to get to the sweet
You can't leave the sorrow behind
The only way forward is going back through it
One morning at a time

(Bridge) Each day the same question falling
Like bread upon the ground:
Are you more than what was done to you?
Are you more than what you've done?

(Verse 3) Two families broken, made into one
He said: leave the past where it lies
Build something new now, the future's begun
But nobody asked who we were before the goodbyes
And forty years later I knocked on her door
I said there's something I never did right
I never once asked you to tell me the story
Of who held your hand through the long, long night

(Chorus) Tell me about your mother
What was it like when she was yours?
Tell me about your mother I should have asked you this before
You can't skip the bitter to get to the sweet
You can't leave the sorrow behind
The only way forward is going back through it
And that's what I'm doing this time

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