Song

A blinding flash of white light

Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight

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People running for cover

Not knowing whether they're dead or alive

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They came with their tanks and their planes

With ravaging fiery flames

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And nothing remains

Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze

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We will not go down

In the night, without a fight

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You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our school

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Women and children alike

Murdered and massacred night after night

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While the so-called leaders of countries afar

Debated on who’s wrong or right

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But their powerless words were in vain

And the bombs fell down like acid rain

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But through the tears and the blood and the pain

You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze

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