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Jerusalem
Matisyahu
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- Album
- Youth
- Released
- 2006
- Genres
- reggae, reggae rock, christian reggae
- Length
- 4:00
- Tempo
- 176 BPM
- Label
- Fallen Sparks Records
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About this song
The song was first released in 2006 on Matisyahu's major label debut, Youth, and produced by Jimmy Douglass and The Ill Factor. Later that year a new version was recorded with Sly & Robbie and released as a digital single. A music video followed, directed by Mathew Cullen of Motion Theory, using imagery from the Holocaust, Eastern European Jewish history and the Civil Rights Movement.
What it's about
The song is based on Psalm 137, verses 5 and 6, which expresses the desire of the Israelites to return to Jerusalem. It draws on the psalm's vow never to forget the city.
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Fun facts
- Written by ill Factor, Greg Prestopino, Jimmy Douglass and Matisyahu.
- Produced by Jimmy Douglass and ill Factor.