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Young Abdel Madi Shabneh 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 up in the New York Times
You see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
He 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 Madi Shabnet
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 his white Opel
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only a blackened skeleton
They 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
And 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
"Now 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 failure
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 Madi Shabneh
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.
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.
And his mother held his photograph up in the New York Times
You see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
He 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 Madi Shabnet
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 his white Opel
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only a blackened skeleton
They 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
And 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
"Now 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 failure
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 Madi Shabneh
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.
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And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace"
If this line doesn't run a chill down your spine, I'd argue that you have no pulse.
This situation is so complex and lasted so long it really is difficult to get a clear view on this, and i think Waits kind of did. he point's out the three major party's and their interest and how evereybody tries to solve things but with either wrong intentions or wrong solutions.
I also like the "god ending" because both sides of the comflict claim to have god on their side, or to serve their god. but really, if there is a god I doubt he would support the killing of many. Personally, i believe religion should be a private matter and dissing other people because they believe in a different god is hypocrite. as long as you say you have the right to believe in a religion you choose, you can't say that other people don't have that right.
I love this song, i think it means people do things they believe with give them peace, like with Wars both sides believe the other is in the way to acheiving peace or by defeting the other they can acheive peace, people stay away from peace because they dont know if its the right thing to do or they get an idea that war and/or death will give peace for their people in the end.
Nothing else to say really, other than to reiterate: "They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace"
"But God actually can change your heart if you let him."
Let him?.. what an awful excuse. 2/3rds of the world is in poverty, what exactly does your God do?
For someone who you address as God, it seems he is completely defenceless against all wrong doing. Or completely void of any moral responsibility. If God was omnipotent and moral, we would not be living in the world we do now. He would not require anyone to "accept Jesus" to be saved, they would not need to be saved in the first place.
To be honest, I don't think your God was ever responsible enough to have created life.
Of course maybe I expect too much of an ultimate being.
@TheMisfitDreamer - I would like to point out that Waits is talking about a different concept of God to the one you are. This is not the Christian God! Waits is having a pop at a conceptual God, at best, a Jewish or Islamic God not your God. Don't worry: there's no need to get all offended - no one had a go at your God! You have completely missed the point, though. Did your God take away your ability to spell and punctuate words? Your syntax and word usage reveals the level to which you have been educated. I'm sure you don't mean "repent God"; to do so would be synonymous with saying you pity God or apologise for him(something I'm sure you would be ashamed of having admitted - through bad grammar or not). Stop waving your highly inaccurate Christian walkingstick around, you're likely to poke yourself in the eye and look like a fool. Or just look like a fool. You do know that most of Christianity was concocted to make you an obedient citizen? So, before Christ, do you think everyone was a sinner and went to hell?
Duh.
Even if you will never realize it 'God' Can never be 'all knowing or omnipotent' and considered 'good, loving, kind' at the same time...Even with the cop out excuse of 'free-will' god gave man free will knowing what would happen what decisions we would make....example, if i was to walk past a child in a field burning to death, and i could save them but i chose not to because that child had the free will to wander in the field, could i be considered good?
The idea that the christian god exists is much more scary than if no god exists, your god supposedly created everything ...pain suffering hate hell disease famine, ask yourself why did god give us the free will to kill and rape instead of to fly or heal wounds with our love?
it used to wake me up in the middle of the night. god, i adore this song...
Too true =/