Saed Bannoura is a friend of mine But I'm lucky to know him, to be sure He is from a land called Palestine From the town of Beit Sahur His house was a mile from where Jesus was born And a mile from a military base He grew up under occupation Such a lovely town but such a terrifying place When the First Intifada started Saed was facing off with tanks So many of the youth then became martyrs And Saed almost joined their ranks He was running from a death squad Soldiers shot him in the chest and in the back They shot him six times altogether But Saed said you guys just don't have the knack
He wouldn't die, he wouldn't die They tried hard to kill him But he just spat in their eye He wouldn't die, he wouldn't die, he wouldn't die
A soldier came and kicked him to turn him over A blow that broke four of his bones A local doctor ran to try to help him The soldiers said you leave him alone It was hours before they took him To hospital where he got surgery But after they cut out half his lung And patched him back together most sloppily
To stop the intifada They tried different strategies First they tried packing the prisons Then they tried brutalilty Neither one of these things worked So they tried assassination But now he's sitting right in front of me Working at his station Yes they tried to kill Saed Bannoura And they succeeded with so many more But now Saed is a citizen of Portland My neighbor, by the Willamette River shore And now Saed is a journalist Reporting from his wheelchair Though twenty years ago he took six bullets Which was quite a lot more than his shareTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.