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David Rovics
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Child, what will you remember
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When you recall your sixteenth year
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The horrid sound of helicopter gunships
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The rumble of the tanks as they drew near
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As the world went about it's business
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And I burned another tank of gasoline
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The Dow Jones lost a couple points that day
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While you were crying in the City of Jenin
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Did they even give your parents warning
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Before they blew the windows out with shells
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While you hid inside the high school basement
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Amidst the ringing of church bells
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As you watched your teacher crumble by the doorway
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And in England they were toasting to the Queen
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You were so far from the thoughts of so many
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Huddled in the City of Jenin
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Were you thinking of the taunting of the soldiers
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Or of the shit they smeared upon the walls
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Were you thinking of your cousin after torture
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Or Tel Aviv and it's glittering shopping malls
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When the fat men in their mansions say that you don't want peace
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Did you wonder what they mean
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As you sat amidst the stench inside the darkness
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In the shattered City of Jenin
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What went through your mind on that day
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At the site of your mother's vacant eyes
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As she lay still among the rubble
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Beneath the blue Middle Eastern skies
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As you stood upon this bulldozed building
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Beside the settlements and their hills so green
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As your tears gave way to grim determination
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Among the ruins of the City of Jenin
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And why should anybody wonder
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As you stepped on board
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The crowded bus across the Green Line
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And you reached inside your jacket for the cord
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Were you thinking of your neighbors buried bodies
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As you made the stage for this scene
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As you set off the explosives that were strapped around your waist
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Were you thinking of the City of Jenin
David Rovics - Jenin
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