The National Taiwan University Chorus sings “Deliver Us” from The Prince of Egypt.
This feels more appropriate around Easter. Perhaps one of DreamWorks’ better movies, The Prince of Egypt soundtrack is haunting and underrated. “Deliver Us” is the film’s opening number, and runs for 7:15 minutes.
“Deliver Us” switches between a chanting male chorus from the slaves, and hardcore drum-laden orchestral score from Hans Zimmer. Halfway through it cuts into Moses’s mother, Yocheved and his sister, Miriam’s beautiful “River o River” theme, before exploding back into the male slave chorus.
Performed on 2013/07/09, Taipei, Taiwan
Conductor：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝
Choral arrangement：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝
Orchestra arrangement：Koji Sakurai 櫻井弘二
Composer：Stephen Schwarz
For more music, check out orchestral melodies.
Lyrics:
Sand!
Water!
Straw!
Sand! And pull!
Water! And raise up!
Straw!
With the salt of my sweat on my brow
Elohim, God on high, can you hear your people cry?
Help us now, this dark hour
Deliver us! There’s a land you promised us!
Deliver us to the promised land
My son, I have nothing I can give
But this chance that you may live
I pray we’ll meet again
Hear our prayer, deliver us!
From these famished years as slaves, we’ve grown too old to stand
Deliver us! There’s a land you promised us!
Deliver us out of bondage and
Sleep as you’re rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember my last lullaby
So I’ll be with you when you dream
Such precious cargo you bear
Do you know somewhere he can live free
River, deliver him there
For I have a prayer just for you
Grow, baby brother, come back someday
Come and deliver us too
And deliver us to the promised land!
Deliver us to the promised land!
