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