I want to take today and really introduce you to Bring Us Home properly, because this might be the most ambitious thing I’ve ever written.
Bring Us Home is a full concept album and stage musical set during the Babylonian exile — the period in biblical history when the people of Israel were taken from their homeland and lived for generations in a foreign land, carrying the hope of return through songs, prayers, and stories passed down to children who had never seen the place their parents called home.
The central question of the whole piece is one that stopped me in my tracks when I started writing: how do you ache for a home you’ve never seen?
Think about that. An entire generation grew up in exile. They knew Jerusalem only through their parents’ memories and their grandparents’ songs. And yet they carried that longing as if it were their own. That is one of the most human things I have ever encountered in scripture — inherited hope, inherited grief, inherited belonging.
The album follows a young woman named Aviva, born in exile, who is taken into a foreign court to sing, witnesses the fall of the empire that held her people captive, and ultimately leads a remnant home.
There’s a harp that appears throughout — hung silent at the start, sounded again by the story’s end. There’s a golden cup, taken and then carried home. Hebrew threads through the lyrics — words like Hashiveinu (“bring us back”) and Halleluyah — bookending the whole story, the desperate plea of the opening becoming the praise of the finale.
This is a passion project in the truest sense. I’ve poured months into it.
More to come. So much more to come.
Follow me on streaming — this story is coming to your ears. 🎶
