Palestine Lyrics

I'll tell you a story, make it clear as I can

About the far away troubles in the holy land

Pictures of the children etched in your mind

Buried in the rubble of the firing line

Jews and Arabs living one and the same

For a thousand years before the Zionists came

And they came like a river, they came like a flood

People calling it the Nakba 'cause that's what it was

Oh Palestine

Going home sometime

Talk about the settlers, come from so far away

Talk about the money from the USA

Talk about the bullets made of plastic and lead

'Neath the shadow of a boot heel over your head

What do you do when they come to your home

And they tell you your land is no longer your own

Do you let them take it or do you dare to resist

Standing in the road with a rock in your fist

Oh Palestine

Going home sometime

We say we want peace, it's a moral obligation

But there can be no peace in an occupation

We talk a good talk while we beat on our drums

After all these years look at what we have done

Does it ever make you think about the friends we endorse

The armies of a general riding on an iron horse

Does it ever make you wonder why it always seems to be

Such an undemocratic version of democracy

Oh Palestine

Going home sometime

Oh friend of mine

We will have peace sometime