Tom Waits - Road to Peace lyrics

Young Abdel Madi Shabneh Was only eighteen years old He was the youngest of nine children He'd never spent a night away from home And his mother held his photograph Up in the New York Times You see, the k**ing has intensified Along the road to peace He was a tall, thin boy with a wispy mustache Disguised as an Orthodox Jew On a crowded bus in Jerusalem Some had survived World War II And the thunderous explosion Blew out windows two hundred yards away With more retribution and seventeen dead Along the Road to Peace Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road Pa**engers boarded bus 14A In the aisle Next to the driver Abdel Madi Shabneh 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 In response to this Another kiss Of d**h was visited upon Yashir Tehah, Israel says, is an Hamas senior militant And Israel sent 4 choppers in Flames engulfed his white Opel And it k**ed his wife and his 3-year-old child Leaving only blackened skeletons They found his toddler's 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 its latest campaign Against Hamas on Tuesday And two days later Hamas shot back And k**ed five Israeli soldiers Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides Most have been Middle Eastern civilians They fill their 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 Palestinians and the Jews And each side will cut off the hand of anyone Who tries to stop the Resistance "If thy right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out" And Mahmoud Abbas and Sharon have been lost Out along the Road to Peace Once Kissinger said "We have no friends America only has interests" And 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 And the fear of his political failure So he plays chess at his desk And poses for the press Ten thousand miles from the Road to Peace In a 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 fundamentalists k**ing On both sides Are 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 Maybe God Himself is lost and needs help Maybe God Himself needs all of our help And He's lost upon the Road to Peace He's lost upon the Road to Peace Out upon the Road to Peace