"Road To Peace" lyrics

Young Abdel Madi Shabneh
Was only 18 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 killing has intensified
Along the road to peace

He was a tall thin boy with a wispy moustache
Disguised as an Orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem
Some had survived World War II

And the thunderous explosion
Blew out windows 200 yards away
More retribution and 17 dead
Along the road to peace

Now at King George Avenue and Jaffa Road
Passengers boarded bus 14A
In the aisle next to the driver
Abdel Madi Shabneh

And the last thing that he said on Earth
Was "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
Yashir Tehah, 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 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 killed five Israeli soldiers

Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides
Most of them Middle Eastern civilians
They fill their children full of hate to fight an old man's war
And die upon the road to peace

"This is our land, we will fight with all our force"
Say the Palestinians 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 and Sharon had 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
In the fear of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press
10,000 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 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

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
And He's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace