Although I wrote it during the current (July 2014) Israeli invasion of Gaza, this is a song about how life in Gaza is under “peacetime.”
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Lyrics:
Gaza
One point eight million people surrounded on all sides
Refugees since ’48, since ’67, occupied
The only reason they’re not starving is down to the UN
Most have never left there, stuck in the lion’s den
The most crowded place on Earth, and there they’ll stay
They can’t visit friends or cousins a half hour’s drive away
Drones overhead constantly
Who will die tomorrow, a daily mystery
In Gaza
The settlers moved out, fighter jets moved in
In Gaza there’s just no way you can win
You can’t take out a copter with an antiquated gun
You’re just a target sitting in the sun
Waiting for your death to come raining from the sky
Where the end really is nigh
You can hear a sonic boom and see a flashing light
Every hour of the day, every hour of the night
In Gaza
There are no shelters, nowhere you can hide
Life is nothing like it is on the other side
There’s nothing post about the traumatic stress
There’s never more, usually less
And still some people wonder, they insist on asking why
Anyone would be so mad as to reply
So mad as to think that it might make sense
To lob some missiles over the fence
From Gaza
Salute Palestine by Latuff Cartoons
I am sick to deathAt the sight of this Israeli murderBecause you can’t miss it Like flies on wiodnw panes to little boys Are the Palestinians to the cultured Israelis They kill them for their sport.And the world watches but does nothing.America gives 4 billion per yearTo help Zionist maniacs destroy & murderHelpless captive civilian women & childrenLocked in an Israeli Concentration CampIsrael has all the moneyIsrael bought the U.S. governmentIsrael has all the public relationsIsrael has all the weaponsAnd Palestinian boys have rocks to throwAt supersonic F-16s filled with bombsMade in the US of A The death is democratic tooEvery Palestinian gets a doseBut no Israeli planes or helicopters are shot downWhere are the Palestinians’ fearsome rockets?That are alleged to have caused the massacreWhere is the evidence of all the rockets? Yes, the rocks not rocketsThrown by malnourished children At supersonic Israeli fighter jetsOh, what a display of hateful anti-Semitism Palestinians are being murdered like fishIn a U.S. funded Israeli barrelBut anti-Palestinianism is never spokenBy anybody anywhere in SupernationBecause anti-Semitism causes everything.