Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman
This track is a very good example of Ezra’s combining rock'n'roll with her Jewish sensibility. In an interview with Billboard, she said to John Norris:
Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptua...
[Verse 1]
Some angels will carry you homeward
Other angels you don't wanna meet
My guardian angel's got wings of tinfoil
And cigarettes found in the street
My angel's got eyes like a housing project
He was born inside a guitar
And I can't forget his red lips and eyelashes
And his "How'd we end up where we are?"
[Pre-Chorus]
There's nothing doing on the main streets
Let's take the alley for the evening
And we're driving in a car that won't slow down
Making ourselves up in the rear view mirror
[Chorus]
I know God lifts up the lowly
I know God lifts up the lowly
[Verse 2]
We're searching the trunk every morning
We tore out a tracking device
And I pray for plagues to come down on this Egypt
And I dream of blood, fire and lice
I wake with my coat for a blanket
My angel's been up for an hour
And I've looked deep into this frail human body
And I know that I carry a power
[Pre-Chorus]
We'll never make it on the main streets
They'll force us back into the alleyways
And we're re-arranging furniture
In a burning house
[Chorus]
But I know God lifts up the lowly
I know God lifts up the lowly
[Outro]
Ram v'nisa, gadol v'nora
Mashpil ge'im u'magbiha shfalim
Motzi asirim u'podeh anavim
V'ozer dalim
V'oneh l'amo b'et shavam eilav
God Lifts Up The Lowly was written by Ezra Furman.
God Lifts Up The Lowly was produced by Ezra Furman & Tim Sandusky.
Ezra Furman released God Lifts Up The Lowly on Fri Feb 09 2018.
In Consequence of Sound, 9th Feb, 2018, Ezra said about the song:
I didn’t know that our bass player Jorgen played the cello until we were making this record. I tried this song many different ways but it was the cello that saved it. I’m glad because the song is very important to me. That’s some of...