Front Lobby Pressure (parody of Surface Pressure, Encanto)
We’re the strong ones, we’re not nervous
We’re as tough as the crust of the cha-llah is
We move ha-arts, we move shu-uls
And we kvell ’cause we know what our worth is
We don’t ask how hard the work is
Got volunteers for every purpose
Zoomdalah, and youth groups, classes, and kiddush
Our member-ship’s growing, Ner Tamid is glowing
But
Under the surface
I feel meshugah-as
a tightrope walker in a three-ring circus
Under the surface
Was David ever like “Yo, I don’t want to fight Golias?”
Under the surface
I’m pretty sure we’re worthless; toilets’ out of service
A flaw and a crack
The straw in the stack
That breaks the lobby’s back
What breaks the lobby’s back it’s –
Leaking like a drip, drip, drip that’ll never stop, whoa
Carpet’s tearing like a rip, rip, rip ’till it just goes pop, whoa
If you think you’re old, our lobby’s older
Decades of wear and tear it can’t shoulder
Who are we if we don’t have a front hall?
If we stick with –
Styles that were hip, hip, hip, 60 years ago, whoa
Bathrooms like a jail, jail, jail, how would I know, whoa
If you think you’re old, our lobby’s older
Decades of wear and tear it can’t shoulder
Who are we if we don’t have a front hall?
If we falter
Under the surface, I hide my nerves, fallen plaques gonna hurt us
Under the surface, The shul doesn’t swerve, despite the big bu-dget
Under the surface, I think about our purpose, can we somehow preserve this?
Our building’s dominoes
A light wind blows
You try to stop it tumbling
But on and on it goes
But wait –
If we could raise some big donations for renovations
Would that free some room up for G-d
Torah, and prayer, or time together,
Instead we measure this growing pressure
Keeps growing, keep going
‘Cause our whole roof is
Leaking like a drip, drip, drip that’ll never stop, whoa
Glass is cracking like a crack, crack, crack ’till it just goes
pop, whoa
If you think you’re old, our lobby’s older
Decades of wear and tear it can’t shoulder
Who are we if we can’t raise the cash?
If we stick with –
Styles that were hip, hip, hip, 60 years ago, whoa
Bathrooms like a jail, jail, jail, how would I know, whoa
If you think you’re old, our lobby’s older
Decades of wear and tear it can’t shoulder
Who are we if we can’t raise the cash?
All it takes
Please help us raise,
No pressure!
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