This song uses the story of the Jewish holiday Passover as a metaphor for finding our way in the world.

This song uses the story of the Jewish holiday Passover as a metaphor for finding our way in the world.

It's not about rebuilding time, or just "Let my people go."
That's history, that's theatre, that's not always life
It's about what you believe.
We all have our own Egypt to leave

Don't turn away the stranger, for now you know the stranger's heart
From history, from theatre, hey, that's life
It all comes down to what you believe
We all have our own Egypt to leave

CHORUS: We look back in order to look forward
We see that we are among redemptions,
Acts of freedom, births of possibility
That we might not have seen.
& we all have our own Egypt to leave.

Why is it this way, why on this night,
Why not that way, why not upright
Because of what he did for me.
And to show him we believe.
We all have our own Egypt to leave

CHORUS: We look back in order to look forward
We see that we are among redemptions,
Acts of freedom, births of possibility
That we might not have seen.
& we all have our own Egypt to leave.