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You ask me how it is that I dare to take a sideYou say I loathe myself for pointing out that you have liedYou say it's tribal warfare, but I disagreeFor the dynamics of the situation are not difficult to seeOn one side is the fighter jet, on the other is the stoneOn one side is the slave, on the other is the throneFor the many there are checkpoints while foreign soldiers rule the streetFor one side there is victory, but the people don't accept defeatThe word you need to know is occupationThe very definition of a land without a nationAnd if peace is what you're after then let us not deceiveIt'll come on the day the tanks return to Tel AvivOn one side there is hunger and bulldozed olive treesOn the other is the Army ruling by decreesCaterpillars maul the streets, destroy entire city blocksWhile children swallow shrapnel for the crime of throwing rocksFences are erected around the towns they flattenAnd Herzl's own fanatics sleep on sheets of satinAnd they water their plantations drilling ever-deeper wellsWhile the displaced children of the hopeless are filled with bullet shellsThe word you need to know is occupationThe very definition of a land without a nationAnd if peace is what you're after then let us not deceiveSongtexteIt'll come on the day the settlers return to Tel AvivOn one side there is the Mossad rounding up the menThrown in jail with no trial, being tortured once againOn the other there is rage, helplessness and fearAnd a growing realization that another holocaust is nearOn the outside there are prisons, inside detaineesBeing stripped of their humanity, beaten naked to their kneesOutside the ghetto prison walls, stormtroopers all aroundWhile inside the hungry people yearn for liberated groundThe word you need to know is occupationThe very definition of a land without a nationAnd if peace is what you're after then let us not deceiveIt'll come on the day the jailguards return to Tel AvivAll across the world you can hear the people sayThe children of Jerusalem will be free one dayIn overcrowded camps amidst the stench of death and fliesTo the suburbs of Detroit you can hear the anguished criesWhile in the land of Israel with God ever on their sideWalls and fences are constructed and papers are deniedPeople fight for their existence while we turn a blinded eyeAnd those who should know better insist on asking whyThe word you need to know is occupationThe very definition of a land without a nationAnd if peace is what you're after then let us not deceiveIt will come on the day the refugees return to Tel Aviv Aus Songtexte Mania