Gaza
Marillion

When I was young it all seemed like a game

Living here brought no sense of shame

But now I'm older I've come to understand

Once we had houses

Once we had land

They rained down bullets on us as our homes collapsed

We lay beneath the rubble terrified

Hoping.. Dare we dream?

We gave up waiting

For us, to dream is still a dream

When I woke up, the house was broken stones

We suddenly had nothing

And nothing's changed

We live, eight people, in this overcrowded heat

Factory-farmed animals living in our own sweat

Living like this is all my baby brother ever knew

The world does nothing. What can we do?

We will kick the ball

We will skip the rope

We will play outside. Be careful

We will paint and draw. We will say our prayers

Outside the pitiless sun bleaches the broken streets

The darkness drops in the evening like an iron door

The men play cards under torchlight

The women stay inside

Hell can erupt in a moment day or night

You ask for trouble if you stray too close to the wall

My father died ..feeding the birds

Mum goes in front of me to check for soldiers

For every hot-head stone ten come back

For every hot-head stone a hundred come back

For every rocket fired the drones come back

For thirteen years the roads have all been closed

We're isolated. We're denied medical supplies

Fuel and work are scarce. They build houses on our farms

The old men weep. The young men take up arms.

We're packed like chickens in this town of block cement

I get headache from the diesel. When it rains, the sewers too

I had no idea what martyrdom meant

Until my older brother.. my older brother

I'm sorry. I can't continue.

You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind, it is said

When people know they have no future

Can we blame them if we cannot tame them?

And when their hopes and dreams are broken

And they feel they might as well be dead

As they go, will we forgive them

If they take us with them?

Stay close

Stay home

Stay calm

Have faith

With the love of our family we can rise above anything

Someday surely someone must help us

With the love of our family we can rise above anything

Someday surely someone must help us

Even now we will go to school

Even now we will dream to dream

Someday surely someone must help us

Nothing's ever simple - that's for sure

There are grieving mothers on both sides of the wire

And everyone deserves a chance to feel the future just might be bright

But any way you look at it - whichever point of view

For us to have to live like this

It just aint right

It just aint right

It just aint right

We all want peace and freedom that's for sure

But peace won't come from standing on our necks

Everyone deserves a chance to feel the future just might be bright

But any way you look at this - whichever point of view

For us to have to live like this

It just aint right

It just aint right

It just aint right

It's like a nightmare rose up slouching towards Bethlehem

Like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land

Slouching towards Bethlehem

It's like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land

Slouching towards Bethlehem

Stay close

Stay home

Have faith

I can't know what twist of history did this to me

It's like a nightmare

With the love of our family

We can rise above anything

Some day surely someone must help us...


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  100 Nights   80 Days   80 Days [Acoustic][*]   A Collection   A Collection [*]   A few words for the dead   A Legacy   A Man of a Thousand Faces   A State of Mind   A Voice From The Past   Abraham Martin And John (acoustic)   Afraid of Sunlight   Afraid of Sunlight [Acoustic Demo][#]   Afraid of Sunlight [DVD]   Afraid of Sunrise   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version]   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version] [Version]   After Me   After Me [Album Version]   After Me [Live]   Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Album Version]   Alone Again In the Lap of Luxury [Album Version] [...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Previously Unrel...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Radio Edit]   An Accidental Man   Angelina   Angelina [DVD]   Answering Machine   Assassing   Assassing [Alternative Mix]   Assassing [Single Version]   Asylum Satellite #1   Beaujolais Day   Beaujolais Day [#]   Beautiful   Beautiful [Album Version]   Beautiful [Album Version] [Version]   Beautiful [DVD]   Beautiful [Radio Edit]   Beautiful [Unplugged Version]   Bell in the Sea, the   Berlin   Berlin [Live]   Between You & Me   Between You and Me   Between You and Me [DVD]   Between You and Me [Mark Kelly Remix]   Beyond You   Beyond You [#][Demo Version]   Bike (excerpt)   Bitter Suite   Blackbird   Blind Curve   Born to Run   Brave   Brave [Album Version]   Brave [Album Version] [Version]   Bridge   Bridge [DVD]   Bridge [Live]   Built-in Bastard Radar   Cannibal Surf Babe   Cannibal Surf Babe [#][Version]   Cannibal Surf Babe [Studio Outtake][#]   Cathedral Wall   Charting the Single   Charting the Single [Live]   Chelsea Monday   Chelsea Monday [Live]   Chelsea Monday [Manchester Square Demo]   Childhood End? [Live]   Childhood's End?   Childhoods End? [#]   Childhoods End? [Live]   Cinderella Search   Costa del Slough   Cover My Eyes   Cover My Eyes (Pain & Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Acoustic Version]...   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Live]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Mike Stone Remix]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Racket Club Acous...   Cover My Eyes [Acoustic Version]   Cover My Eyes [DVD]   Deserve   Don't Hurt Yourself   Dream Sequence [Previously Unreleased Demo Recorde...   Dreamy Street   Drilling Holes   Dry Land   Dry Land [Live]   Dry Land [LP Version]   Easter   Easter [DVD]   Easter [Live]   Emerald Lies   Emerald Lies [Demo Version]   Enlightened   Especially True   Essence   Estonia   Estonia [Acoustic Studio Version][*]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [Positive Light Remix][*]   Exile On Princes Street   Exile on Princes Street [#]   Exile On Princess Street   Faith   Faith [Live]   Fake Plastic Trees   Fantastic Place   Forgotten Sons   Freaks   Freaks [Live]   Fruit of the Wild Rose   Fugazi   Gabriel's Message   Garden Party   Garden Party [Edited Version][Edit]   Gazpacho   Genie   Go   Go!   Going under   Going Under [Extended Version]   Goodbye To All That   Great Escape   Grendel   Grendel [Fair Deal Studios Version]   Half the World   Happiness Is The Road   Hard As Love   Hard as Love [Demo Version]   Hard as Love [Instrumental]   He Knows You Know   He Knows You Know [Album Version]   He Knows You Know [Manchester Square Demo]   Heart of Lothian   Heart of Lothian [DVD]   Heart of Lothian [Extended Mix]   Heart of Lothian [Full Version]   Heart of Lothian [Single Version]   Holidays In Eden   Hollow Man   Holloway Girl   Holloway Girl [Live]   Hooks In You   Hooks in You [Live]   Hooks in You [Meaty Mix]   Hope for the Future   Hotel Hobbies   Hotel Hobbies [DVD]   House   How Can It Hurt   How Can It Hurt [*]   How Will You Go   I Saw Three Ships   I Will Walk on Water   I Will Walk on Water [*]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#][*]   Icon   If My Heart Were a Ball   If My Heart were a Ball it would Roll Uphill   Incommunicado   Incommunicado [Album Version]   Incommunicado [Alternate Version]   Incommunicado [Alternative Version][Alternate Take...   Incommunicado [DVD]   Incommunicado [Live]   Incubus   Incubus [Demo Version]   Incubus [DVD]   Insomnia (Cathedral Wall)   Interior Lulu   Jigsaw   Just for the Record   Kayleigh   Kayleigh (Demo Version)   Kayleigh [#]   Kayleigh [Alternative Mix]   Kayleigh [Bob Harris Session] [Live]   Kayleigh [DVD]   Kayleigh [Edit]   Kayleigh [Extended Version]   Kayleigh [Live]   Kayleigh [Single Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Edit] [Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Version]   Keyleigh   King   King [DVD]   King Of Sunset Town   King of Sunset Town [Live]   Lady Nina   Lady Nina [Extended Version]   Lady Nina [Single Edit]   Lavender   Lavender [#]   Lavender [DVD]   Lavender [Live]   Lavender [Single Version]   Live Forever   Living With The Big Lie   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version]   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version] [Version]   Living With the Big Lie [DVD]   Living With the Big Lie [Live]   Living With the Big Lie [Previously Unlreleased De...   Lords of the Backstage   Lords of the Backstage [#]   Mad   Made Again   Made Again [Album Version] [Version]   Made Again [Unplugged Version]   Man of A Thousand Faces   Man of a Thousand Faces [DVD]   Map of the World   Marbles 1   Marbles 2   Marbles 4   Marbles III   Margaret   Margaret [Edited Live][Live]   Margaret [Live]   Market Sqaure Heroes [Battle Priest Version]   Market Square Heroe[s [Edited Re-recorded Version]   Market Square Heroes   Market Square Heroes [Alternative Version][Alterna...   Market Square Heroes [Live]   Market Square Heroes [Re-Recorded Version][Alterna...   Memory of Water   Memory of Water [Big Beat Mix][*]   Mirages   Mirages (demo)   Mirages [#][Demo Version]   Montreal   Most Toys   Neverland   No One Can   No One Can [Album Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   No Such Thing   Nothing Fills the Hole   Now She'll Never Know   Now Wash Your Hands   Number One   Ocean Cloud   Older Than Me   One Fine Day   Out of this World   Out of This World [Studio Outtake [#][Version]   Out of This World [Studio Outtake][#]   Paper Lies   Pour My Love   Power   Pseudo Silk Kimono   Pseudo Silk Kimono [#]   Punch and Judy   Punch and Judy [Demo Version]   Quartz   Real Tears For Sale   Rich   River [Live][Instrumental]   Runaway   Runaway [Acoustic]   Runaway [Bonus Track] [Live][*]   Runaway [Live][*]   Script For a Jester's Tear   Seasons End   See It Like A Baby   Separated Out   Shadows On The Barley   Shadows on the Barley [#]   She Chameleon   She Chameleon [Demo Version]   She'll Never Know   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Slainte Mhath   Slainte Mhath [Live]   Somewhere Else   Somewhere Else [DVD]   Sounds That Can't Be Made   Space [Live]   Splintering heart   Splintering Heart [DVD]   Splintering Heart [Live at the Moles Club][*]   Splintering Heart [Live]   State of Mind   Story From A Thin Wall   Story From a Thin Wall [#]   Sugar Mice   Sugar Mice in the Rain [#]   Sunset Hill   Sunset Hill [#]   Sympathy   Sympathy [*]   Sympathy [Acosutic Version]   Sympathy [Acoustic Version][*]   Sympathy [Racket Club Acoustic Session]   Thank You, Whoever You Are   That Time of the Night   That Time of the Night [Live]   The Answering Machine   The Bell In The Sea   The Bridge   The Damage   The Erin Marbles   The Fruit of the Wild Rose   The Great Escape   The Great Escape [Album Version]   The Great Escape [Demo Version]   The Great Escape [Orchestral Version]   The Great Escape [Spiral Remake]   The Hollow Man   The Hollow Man [Acoustic]   The Hollow Man [Album Version]   The Hollow Man [Album Version] [Version]   The Invisible Man   The King Of Sunset Town   The Last Century for Man   The Last of You   The Last Straw   The Last Straw: Happy Ending   The Man from the Planet Marzipan   The Memory of Water   The New Kings   The New Kings (I)   The New Kings (II)   The New Kings (IV)   The Only Unforgivable Thing   The Other Half   The Party   The Party [Album Version]   The Party [Album Version] [Version]   The Party [DVD]   The Party [Moles Club Demo][#]   The Party [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   The Pseudo-Silk Kimono   The Rakes Progress   The Release   The Sky Above The Rain   The Space . . .   The Space...   The Space... [Live]   The Uninvited Guest   The Uninvited Guest [12' Version]   The Web   The Wound   These Chains   This is the 21st Century   This Strange Engine   This Town   This Town [Live]   This Town [Moles Club Demo][#]   This Town [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   This Train Is My Life   Three Boats down from the Candy   Three Minute Boy   Throw Me Out   Thunder Fly   Tic-Tac-Toe   Tic-Tac-Toe [#]   Torch Song   Toxic [DVD]   Trap the Spark   Tumble Down the Years   Tux On   Under the Sun   Uninvited Guest   Uninvited Guest [DVD]   Uninvited Guest [Live]   Uninvited Guest [Live]   Voice In The Crowd   Voice in the Crowd [#]   Waiting To Happen   Waiting to Happen [Live]   Waiting to Happen [Moles Club Demo][#]   Waiting to Happen [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   Warm Wet Circles   Warm Wet Circles [DVD]   Warm Wet Circles [Live]   Warm Wet Circles [Single Version]   Waterhole   Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)   Waterhole [Expresso Bongo]   Waterhole [Expresso Bongo][#]   Web   Whatever Is Wrong With You?   When I Meet God   White Feather   White Feather [#]   White Feather [Live]   White Russian   White Russians [#][Demo Version]   White Russians [Live]   Winter Trees   Winter Trees [Instrumental]   Woke Up   Wrapped Up in Time   You Don't Need Anyone   You're Gone   You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

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