Look at the children’s faces. And the old people’s. “They pretend that it’s forgotten… You see that we are rising… Our day is surely coming… No longer in the shadows of the ghosts of Deir Yassin”
They pretend that it’s forgotten
But somewhere small flowers grow
On the weathered stones of destroyed homes
Somewhere the light’s still in the window
You see that we are rising our day is surely coming
No longer in the shadows
Of the ghosts of Deir Yassin
They change the names on the signs
But it’s in our hearts these words are written
Of the children who don’t know their homes
They will walk the streets from which they are forbidden
You see that we are rising our day is surely coming
No longer in the shadows
Of the ghosts of Deir Yassin
Of the old ones now passed on
But it’s their blood our hearts are pumping
They will walk with us when we return to their towns
Whose names will live again
You see that we are rising our day is surely coming
No longer in the shadows
Of the ghosts of Deir Yassin
You see that we are rising
You know the fear is gone
We will return
You see that we are rising our day is surely coming
We are no longer in the shadows
Of the ghosts of Deir Yassin
You see that we are rising our day is surely coming
No longer in the shadows
Of the ghosts of Deir Yassin
Thanks, Annie–so moving: exquisite, and heart-rending. On “our hearts these words are written.”
As the end tells us,
“The writing on the hands are the names of the original villages in Palestine from which the people were ethnically cleansed to make way for the state of Israel.
“Buy the album HERE.” From http://www.australiansforpalestine.net/62675
i cried all over this susie. it just floored me.
Very moving. One day Palestine will be liberated. Every Inch.
Just beautiful. You can sense the pauperisation of an innocent people but also the fact that they are a united people who share the shekel Falastini and speak a shared language and have the shared history that Israelis don’t. And that is whay the settler colonialism of the Israelis will fail in a way that Australia and the US didn’t. The people can’t be kept down.
We shall see how a shared history fares against a shared religious narrative.