From the River to the Sea Lyrics

Where the Middle East meets West

I ain't talking bout America I'm talking where I'm at

A little seaside neighborhood where no one would invest

Full of refugees barely moving out of tents

Ain't have too much of choice where they were sent

Kicked out of their host lands situation tense

In a brand new state homeland of their descent

But the thought of coming home kept the spirit feeling blessed

From the river to the sea

A lifeline for the people like me

Fostering conditions where my people might flee

Acting shocked when we flock back to our history

We ain't have a choice but even when we had it

Didn't even matter how long we'd been scattered

Children of the land can't leave our house abandoned

You shake leaves from a branch the roots still planted

From the river to the sea

Several million of us living in between

From the river to the sea

We ain't gonna pretend that we don't know what you mean

From the river to the sea

You want the land free of the people like me

From the river to the sea

חזרנו הביתה forever it will be

The west said compromise please and we signed it

Handed us a pen said agree and we signed it

This time it'll work trust me and we signed it

Survived a genocide when our enemies declined it

a slaughter like that of the Mongols and crusades

That's what the Arab league leaders say as they invade

A little early planning all the victory parades

In the end they ain't have no victory to claim

Couple hundred thousand of their own their war displaced

Just to use as pawns in the next war they'd wage

Couple hundred thousand Jews dealt with their rage

But the rest of the world loves ignoring that stage

It ain't start in October go back to 48!

Damn right but if I count right that's a little late

We could go back a thousand years but for times sake

Since the 1920s we still ain't catch a break

From the river to the sea

Several million of us living in between

From the river to the sea

We ain't gonna pretend that we don't know what you mean

From the river to the sea

You want the land free of the people like me

From the river to the sea

חזרנו הביתה forever it will be

From the river to the sea

That's what you hear when you walking through the street

Which river? Which sea?

No clue they got nowhere else to be

My future's just a game to them

Our lives ain't nothing but a way for them

To feel accomplished at the end of the day and then

Move on disconnected from the pain we sense

Make it make sense from the sea to the river

The land that my ancestors wrote we'd be delivered

Is littered with artifacts written in the script or

Language that I use today when I order dinner

From the sea to the river where we always been living in

Thousands of years still standing resilient

In spite of the way they reframing definitions

it's my wife's grandfather who's considered Palestinian

From the river to the sea

Several million of us living in between

From the river to the sea

We ain't gonna pretend that we don't know what you mean

From the river to the sea

You want the land free of the people like me

From the river to the sea

חזרנו הביתה forever it will be