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Artist/Band:
Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: Road To Peace
Lyrics for Album: Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006]
Young Abdul Abdi-shabnei was only 18 years old
He was the youngest of 9 children
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 the tall young boy with the whispy moustache
Disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem
Some of em had survived World War 2
And the thunderous explosion
Blew out windows 200 yards away
For retribution and 17 dead
Along the road to peace
Now at Kiach Road and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14A
In the aisle next to the driver, Abdul Abdi-shabnei
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
Now in response to this
Another kiss of death was visited upon
Yabshil-tara, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
Israel sent 4 choppers in
Flames engulfed his white Opal
And it killed his wife and his 3 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 give up their smallest right
Along the road to peace
Israel launched its latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
And 2 days later Hamas shot back
They killed 5 Israeli soldiers
Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides
Most of them Middle-Eastern civilians
They fill their children full of hate to fight an old man's war
And die upon the road to peace
This is our land we will fight with all our force
Say the Palestinians and the Jews
Each side will cut off the head of anyone
Who tries to stop the resistance
If thy right eye offends thee
Then you must pluck it out
Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon, lost out along the road to peace
Once Kissinger said we have no friends
America only has interests
Now our president wants to be seen as a hero
And he's hungry for election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future
And the fear of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press
10,000 miles from the road to peace
The video that they found at the home of Abdul Abdi-shabnei
He held a Kalishnikov rifle and he spoke with the 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?
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
He's out upon the road to peace
He's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace
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Tom Waits
"Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006]"
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