In a beautiful palace on a mountain so high Shamil rules his kingdom with pride His enemies defeated in fight after fight His advantage is clearly his height To a false call for peace he agrees to come down Enslaved and imprisoned his pain knows no bound Yet his spirit is high for he knows he'll ascend And be with his nation again Though it seems so unreal He is confident and sure He'll rise more than ever before Standing as one with her father above Serving with fear and with love Her emotions and knowledge were G-dly and pure The neshama was safe and secure To the lowest of low she is sent with a goal But countless distractions are drowning the soul From the depth of Mayim Rabim she crys She longs for the source up on high She knows from down here she could rise even more Much closer to Hashem than before At Farbrengens and rallies they merited to be The Rebbe they'd hear and they'd see His devotion to them was so easy to feel Their Hitkashrus so deep and so real Our connection was challenged by darkness so strong Ad mosai, Hashem, this is taking so long Yet, he leads us and guides us As chasidim we're sure He is with us now more then before So devoted we stand to fulfil his command Oy Rebbe we'll do all we can Yes we know beyond doubt that the best days at last Are in the future and not the past With a swing of your hand all the darkness will end Oy Rebbe mir velin zich zen