Tom Waits - Road To Peace Lyrics
Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York TimesTo see the killing has intensified along the road to peaceThere was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox JewOn a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War TwoAnd the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards awayWith more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peaceNow at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14aIn the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)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 peaceNow in response to this another kiss of death was visited uponYasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militantAnd Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide openAnd it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletonsIt's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the camerasBut Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the carThere are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TVNeither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peaceIsrael launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on TuesdayTwo days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiersSo thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civiliansThey fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the JewsEach side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistanceIf the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it outAnd Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peaceOnce 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 re-electionBut Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failuresSo he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peaceIn the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boyHe was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a futureHe told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peaceThe fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peaceBut 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?Well maybe God himself is lost and needs helpMaybe God himself he needs all of our helpMaybe God himself is lost and needs helpHe's out upon the road to peaceWell maybe God himself is lost and needs helpMaybe God himself he needs all of our helpAnd he's lost upon the road to peaceAnd he's lost upon the road to peaceOut upon the road to peace.
