Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,
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He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.
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And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times
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To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
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There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew
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On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two
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And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away
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With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace
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Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a
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In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
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And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"
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And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace
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Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
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Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
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And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open
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And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons
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It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
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But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
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There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
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Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace
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Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
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Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
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So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians
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They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace
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"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews
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Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance
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If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out
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And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace
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Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"
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Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election
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But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures
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So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace
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In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
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He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy
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He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future
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He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace
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The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace
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But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
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And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?
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Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
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Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
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Maybe God himself is lost and needs help
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He's out upon the road to peace
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Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
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Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
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And he's lost upon the road to peace
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And he's lost upon the road to peace
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Out upon the road to peace.
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Road To Peace
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| Tom Waits |
