Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Gaza, artist - Marillion. Date of issue: 13.09.2012
Song language: English
Gaza |
| When I was young it all seemed like a game |
| Living here brought no sense of shame |
| But now I’m older I’ve come to understand |
| Once we had houses |
| Once we had land |
| They rained down bullets on us as our homes collapsed |
| We lay beneath the rubble terrified |
| Hoping. |
| Dare we dream? |
| We gave up waiting |
| For us, to dream is still a dream |
| When I woke up, the house was broken stones |
| We suddenly had nothing |
| And nothing’s changed |
| We live, eight people, in this overcrowded heat |
| Factory-farmed animals living in our own sweat |
| Living like this is all my baby brother ever knew |
| The world does nothing. |
| What can we do? |
| We will kick the ball |
| We will skip the rope |
| We will play outside. |
| Be careful |
| We will paint and draw. |
| We will say our prayers |
| Outside the pitiless sun bleaches the broken streets |
| The darkness drops in the evening like an iron door |
| The men play cards under torchlight |
| The women stay inside |
| Hell can erupt in a moment day or night |
| You ask for trouble if you stray too close to the wall |
| My father died. |
| feeding the birds |
| Mum goes in front of me to check for soldiers |
| For every hot-head stone ten come back |
| For every hot-head stone a hundred come back |
| For every rocket fired the drones come back |
| For thirteen years the roads have all been closed |
| We’re isolated. |
| We’re denied medical supplies |
| Fuel and work are scarce. |
| They build houses on our farms |
| The old men weep. |
| The young men take up arms |
| We’re packed like chickens in this town of block cement |
| I get headache from the diesel. |
| When it rains, the sewers too |
| I had no idea what martyrdom meant |
| Until my older brother. |
| my older brother |
| I’m sorry. |
| I can’t continue |
| You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind, it is said |
| When people know they have no future |
| Can we blame them if we cannot tame them? |
| And when their hopes and dreams are broken |
| And they feel they might as well be dead |
| As they go, will we forgive them |
| If they take us with them? |
| Stay close |
| Stay home |
| Stay calm |
| Have faith |
| With the love of our family we can rise above anything |
| Someday surely someone must help us |
| With the love of our family we can rise above anything |
| Someday surely someone must help us |
| Even now we will go to school |
| Even now we will dream to dream |
| Someday surely someone must help us |
| Nothing’s ever simple — that’s for sure |
| There are grieving mothers on both sides of the wire |
| And everyone deserves a chance to feel the future just might be bright |
| But any way you look at it — whichever point of view |
| For us to have to live like this |
| It just ain’t right |
| It just ain’t right |
| It just ain’t right |
| We all want peace and freedom that’s for sure |
| But peace won’t come from standing on our necks |
| Everyone deserves a chance to feel the future just might be bright |
| But any way you look at this — whichever point of view |
| For us to have to live like this |
| It just ain’t right |
| It just ain’t right |
| It just ain’t right |
| It’s like a nightmare rose up slouching towards Bethlehem |
| Like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem |
| It’s like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem |
| Stay close |
| Stay home |
| Have faith |
| I can’t know what twist of history did this to me |
| It’s like a nightmare |
| With the love of our family |
| We can rise above anything |
| Some day surely someone must help us… |