Jenin-David Rovics

[ti:Jenin] [ar:David Rovics] [al:Behind The Baricade: The Best Of David Rovics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]Jenin - David Rovics [00:01.04] [00:06.23]Child [00:06.74] [00:07.44]What will you remember [00:08.97] [00:12.31]When you recall your sixteenth year [00:14.59] [00:17.28]The horrid sound of helicopter gunships [00:20.42] [00:22.99]The rumble of the tanks as they drew near [00:25.88] [00:28.56]As the world went about it's business [00:31.64] [00:33.48]And I burned another tank of gasoline [00:37.16] [00:39.53]The dow jones lost a couple points that day [00:43.17] [00:44.42]While you were crying in the city of Jenin [00:47.91] [00:53.43]Did they even give your parents warning [00:56.26] [00:58.81]Before they blew the windows out with shells [01:02.09] [01:04.54]While you hid inside the high school basement [01:07.42] [01:10.82]Amidst the ringing of church bells [01:13.81] [01:15.54]As you watched your teacher crumble by the doorway [01:19.16] [01:21.00]And in England they were toasting to the queen [01:24.62] [01:27.14]You were so far from the thoughts of so many [01:31.27] [01:32.72]Huddled in the city of Jenin [01:35.74] [01:40.81]Were you thinking of the taunting of the soldiers [01:44.37] [01:46.27]Or of the sh*t they smeared upon the walls [01:49.99] [01:52.07]Were you thinking of your cousin after torture [01:55.47] [01:57.58]Or tel aviv [01:58.32] [01:59.03]And it's glittering shopping malls [02:01.39] [02:03.23]When the fat men in their mansions say that you [02:06.78]Don't want peace [02:08.36] [02:09.92]Did you wonder what they mean [02:12.72] [02:14.44]As you sat amidst the stench inside the darkness [02:18.13] [02:20.53]In the shattered city of Jenin [02:23.44] [02:29.31]What went through your mind on that day [02:32.88] [02:33.83]At the sight of your mother's vacant eyes [02:37.31] [02:39.84]As she lay still among the rubble [02:42.73] [02:45.37]Beneath the blue middle eastern skies [02:49.15] [02:50.44]As you stood upon this bulldozed building [02:54.34] [02:56.20]Beside the settlements and their hills so green [02:59.78] [03:02.03]As your tears gave way to grim determination [03:05.24] [03:07.60]Among the ruins of the city of Jenin [03:11.23] [03:17.25]And why should anybody wonder [03:19.48] [03:22.75]As you stepped on board [03:24.93] [03:27.76]The crowded bus across the green line [03:30.88] [03:32.97]And you reached inside your jacket for the cord [03:36.02] [03:38.18]Were you thinking of your neighbors buried bodies [03:42.05] [03:44.33]As you made the stage for this scene [03:47.46] [03:49.65]As you set off the explosives that were strapped around [03:53.69]Your waist [03:54.76] [03:57.50]Were you thinking of the city of Jenin