Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Road To Peace, artist - Tom Waits. Album song Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, in the genre Блюз
Date of issue: 20.11.2006
Record label: AnTi
Song language: English
Road To Peace |
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home. |
And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times |
To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace |
There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew |
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two |
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away |
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace |
Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a |
In 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 peace |
Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon |
Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant |
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open |
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened |
skeletons |
It’s found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras |
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car |
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV |
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace |
Israel launched it’s latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday |
Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers |
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern |
civilians |
They 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 Jews |
Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance |
If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out |
And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace |
Once 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-election |
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures |
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the |
road to peace |
In 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 boy |
He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future |
He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace |
The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace |
But 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 help |
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help |
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help |
He’s out upon the road to peace |
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help |
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help |
And he’s lost upon the road to peace |
And he’s lost upon the road to peace |
Out upon the road to peace. |