Eli Nathan - The Masmid lyrics

I'm an ex-Yeshiva guy, 25 years old working in Manhattan for the prized pot of gold. A lawyer by trade, I'm sure you know the rest, every chance to make a dollar just another test. When I left Yeshiva, couldn't wait for freedom day Take the B train to the city, running far away. But now I feel so empty, I wish I could be there In Yeshiva where I'd shteig, my chavrusa by my side. And it's lonely, oh so lonely. Feeling emptier each day. Yes it's lonely, oh so lonely. With the Torah far away. Always on the run and I've got no time to learn. Chop a minyan in the morning. Rush hour shteeble hopping, I've been davening. Tried learning on the train, but it's hard to keep my place, With a stranger standing next to me, His elbow in my face. And it's lonely, oh so lonely. Feeling emptier each day. Yes it's lonely, oh so lonely. With the Torah far away. I wait all week for Shabbos. But when it comes along, I'm so tired I just fall asleep. In the middle of a song, I've got to get some learning done. One of these fine days, And my wife she smiles and says to me, That's what you always say. And it's lonely, oh so lonely. Feeling emptier each day. Yes it's lonely, oh so lonely. I know I've got to change. Five thirty the next morning, He jumped right out of bed, And said I've got to do some learning, Put some Torah in my head. Ran to the daf yomi shiur, And that's where he stayed. And he's no longer lonely now. No longer lonely now. He's the masmid, a lawyer by his trade. He's a lawyer, but is learning every day.