Lyric discussion by stayhappyyy 

Cover art for Shabop Shalom lyrics by Devendra Banhart

another interesting aspect to this song is the "todamama" section which goes along with the telavivian lambs bread. In Hebrew (the language spoken in Tel Aviv) "Toda" means Thank you and mama... well.

I think both of these have to do with his little tryst with Natalie Portman at the time. She spent a little time in Israel and had strong ties there, and I think it is her voice that says the line "get bent."

well just 2 small corrections my man meudwen: it's not the book of jude but the book of jobe, from the old testament (the bible) it's a scroll about this guy jobe got all his family and belongings taken away from him and he still had faith in god, a really bummer of a story, really... and second- ahava raba is not a musical expression but just "much love" in hebrew, though not in a likely-used dialect. anyway we can teach devendra that in 2 weeks when he'll be here in israel.