"Break Free (Avadim Hayinu)" Lyric Video | The Maccabeats | Original Passover Song | עבדים היינו "Break Free (Avadim Hayinu)" Lyric Video | The Maccabeats | Original Passover Song | עבדים היינו

Break Free (Avadim Hayinu) is an original Maccabeats Pesach song. This and all Maccabeats music is recorded a cappella. https://www.maccabeats.com Bookings: [email protected] Music and Lyrics by Noey Jacobson with Yonatan Shefa Arranged by Ed Boyer Edited by Nick Girard Mixed by Ed Boyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lyrics: We built the walls ourselves, brick by brick With every word we swallowed, every risk we didn’t risk We learned to make ourselves so small To become what they said was all we’d ever be All we’d ever be The chains that hold us tightest Are the ones we can’t quite see But this won’t be my story Yeah, it’s time that I break free Avadim hayinu, ata bnei chorin Time for me to find my way, time for me to part the sea Avadim hayinu, ata bnei chorin I begin my life today, it’s time that I break free I wore the shame of yesterday like stones around my feet I played the part that others wrote and called it my defeat We learned to make ourselves so small To become what they said was all we’d ever be All we’d ever be Avadim hayinu, ata bnei chorin Time for me to find my way, time for me to part the sea Avadim hayinu, ata bnei chorin I begin my life today, it’s time that I break free And I wandered, and I wondered Would I ever find my way But this desert wasn’t my demise It was room enough to change Avadim hayinu, ata bnei chorin Time for us to find our way, time for us to part the sea Avadim hayinu, ata bnei chorin Leave behind the past today It’s time, it’s time to break free