Child, what will you
remember when you recall your sixteenth year ?
The horrid sound of
helicopter gunships
The rumbler of the tanks as
they drew near
As the world went about it's
business
And I burned another tank of
gasoline
The Dow Jones lost a couple
points that day
While you were crying in the
City of Jenin
Did they even give your
parents warning
Before they blew the windows
out with shells
While you hid inside the
high school basement
Amidst the ringin of church
bells
As you watched your teacher
crumble by the doorway
And in England they were
toasting to the Queen
You were so far from the
thoughts of so many
Huddled in the City of Jenin
Were you thinking of the
taunting of the soldiers
Or of the shit they smeared
upon the walls
Were you thinking of your
cousin after tortuse
Or Tel Aviv and it's
glittering shopping malls
When the fat men in their
mansions say thay you don't want peace
Did you wonder what they
mean
As you sat amidst the stench
inside the darkness
In the shattered City of
Jenin
What went through your mind
on that day
At the site of your mother's
vacant eyes
As she lay still among the
rubble
Beneath the blue Middle
Eastern skies
As you stood upon this
bulldozed building
Beside the settlements and
their hills so green
As your tears gave way to
grim determination
Among the runs of the City
of Jenin
And why should anybody
wonder
As you stepped on board
The crowded bus across the
Green Line
And you reached inside your
jacket for the cord
Were you thinking of your
neighbors buried bodies
As you made the stage for
this scene
As you set off the
explosives that were strapped around your waist
Were you thinking of the
City of Jenin
Keterangan :
Lagu ini merupakan bentuk
dukungan David Rovics terhadap para pejuang Palestina yang ingin merdeka dari
Israel. Jika David Rovics yang Yahudi saja dukung Palestina, bagaimana dengan
Anda ?
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