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Songs:Road To Palestine (103201)
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Songwriter
Stephen Lomas
History
My take on the Palestine/Israel thing... There's grief, horror, villains & victims on both sides of this conflict & I like to think I've kept pretty much to the middle ground in this song. There's enough rhetoric floating around out there without me adding my bias. I wrote it about the time of the Israeli incursions into the Jenine camps. The last verse originally had a token reference to Jesus. I revised it after the death of Rachel Corrie, a young American Peace Activist.
Lyrics
Road to Palestine Stephen Lomas 2002
- There's blood on the sand there's a bomb on the bus
- There's a madman pointin' his finger at us
- Blood on the road wreckage all around
- Blood in the sky as the sun goes down.
- God bless the meek & the children with guns
- Yeah God must love us everyone
- God must love us, it's gotta be true
- He loves Smith & Wesson, Kalishnikov too
- Down there by the crossroads, they’re lookin’ for a sign
- But no-one knows which way to go on the Road to Palestine.
- Daniels harp plays a heartbreak sound
- Lines are drawn through the center of town
- Liberty’s long been lost at sea
- So long ago now don’t matter to me (remember the Liberty...)
- The tv camera’s got a one eyed stare
- Can’t see God ‘cause he ain’t there
- Out of the sky see the fallin’ dove
- It’s buried in the rubble next to peace & love.
- Mountains fall away, there’s nothin’ left behind
- But tears & tank tracks in the dust on the Road to Palestine.
- Do you stand in the middle do you hide in the crowd
- Do you hang on the fringe do you yell real loud
- Remember Rachel Corrie when she made her stand
- Would you stand beside her would you hold her hand
- Crescent moon sits helpless, in the ancient empty sky
- Stars are only teardrops on the Road to Palestine
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