Road To Peace Lyrics

Road To Peace (Waits/Brennan 2006)
Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only eighteen years old Was the youngest of nine children he’d never spent a night away from home And his mother held his photograph up in the New York Times You see the killing has intensified along the road to peace He was a tall thin boy with a wispy moustache disguised as an Orthodox Jew On a crowded bus in Jerusalem some had survived World War Two And the thunderous explosion blew out windows two hundred yards away With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace Now, at King George Avenue and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14A In the aisle next to the driver, Abdel Madi Shabneh And the last thing that he said on earth is, "God is great and God is good" And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace In response to this another kiss of death was visited upon Yashir Tehah, Israel say's is an Hamas senior militant And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed his white opal And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons They found his toddler’s bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace Israel launched its latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday And two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides most have been Middle Eastern civilians They fill their children full of hate to fight an old man’s war and die upon the road to peace And this is our land we will fight with all our force say the Palestinians and the Jews Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance If thy right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out And Machoud Abbas and Sharon have been lost out along the road to peace Once Kissinger said we have no friends, America only has interests And now our President wants to been seen as a hero and he’s hungry for re-election But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his politcal failure So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press ten thousand miles from the road to peace In the video that they are found at the home of Abdel Madi Shabneh He held a kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy He was an excellent student he studied so hard it was as if he had a future He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets? And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men? Or maybe God himself is lost and needs help Maybe God himself he needs all of our help Maybe God himself is lost and needs help, he's out upon the road to peace Maybe God himself is lost and needs help Maybe God himself he needs all of our help and he's lost upon the road to peace And he's lost upon the road to peace, out upon the road to peace
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Road To Peace
(Waits/Brennan 2006)

Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only eighteen years old
Was the youngest of nine children he’d never spent a night away from home
And his mother held his photograph up in the New York Times
You see the killing has intensified along the road to peace

He was a tall thin boy with a wispy moustache disguised as an Orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem some had survived World War Two
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows two hundred yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace

Now, at King George Avenue and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14A
In the aisle next to the driver, Abdel Madi Shabneh
And the last thing that he said on earth is, "God is great and God is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace

In response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
Yashir Tehah, Israel say's is an Hamas senior militant
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed his white opal
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons

They found his toddler’s bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace

Israel launched its latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
And two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides most have been Middle Eastern civilians
They fill their children full of hate to fight an old man’s war and die upon the road to peace

And this is our land we will fight with all our force say the Palestinians and the Jews
Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance
If thy right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out
And Machoud Abbas and Sharon have been lost out along the road to peace

Once Kissinger said we have no friends, America only has interests
And now our President wants to been seen as a hero and he’s hungry for re-election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his politcal failure
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press ten thousand miles from the road to peace

In the video that they are found at the home of Abdel Madi Shabneh
He held a kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy
He was an excellent student he studied so hard it was as if he had a future
He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace

The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace
But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?
Or maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help, he's out upon the road to peace
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help and he's lost upon the road to peace
And he's lost upon the road to peace, out upon the road to peace

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