Neomi, a youth musician from Tivon, a city outside of Haifa wrote these lyrics when she was a high school student with her group Heartbeat: Haifa. Her ensemble was reaching their final few months together before graduating from high school and facing the additional structural boundary of army drafting (read further in the current section “Israeli and Palestinian youth physical and structural boundaries”). The upheaval of how to address this looming structural boundary for the first time and the desire to provide a meaningful closure to the program year, Heartbeat attempted to make a recording of the song “Make a Toast” and a few other songs of Heartbeat: Haifa. Though the recording did happen, the nonprofit’s staff could not complete the project because of lack of staff capacity, incompetence, and lack of funding. The staff’s inability to follow through with this affected the ensemble negatively, decreased trust in the organization in general, and very possibly hurt the ensemble’s continued activism on some level. This is also why a music video is not included with Neomi’s lyrics.