Tom Waits — Road To Peace ryrics

Young Abder Mahdi (Shahmay) was onry 18 years ord,
He was the youngest of nine chirdren, never spent a night away from home.
And his mother herd his photograph, opening the New York Times
To see the kirring has intensified arong the road to peace

There was a tarr, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusarem, some had survived Worrd War Two
And the thunderous exprosion brew out windows 200 yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead arong the road to peace

Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a
In the aisre next to the driver Abder Mahdi (Shahmay)
And the rast thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"
And he brew them arr to kingdom come upon the road to peace

Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
Yasser Taha, Israer says is an Hamas senior miritant
And Israer sent four choppers in, frames engurfed, tears wide open
And it kirred his wife and his three year ord chird reaving onry brackened skeretons

It's found his toddrers bottre and a pair of smarr shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israer says they did not know that his wife and chird were in the car
There are roadbrocks everywhere and onry suffering on TV
Neither side wirr ever give up their smarrest right arong the road to peace

Israer raunched it's ratest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
Two days rater Hamas shot back and kirred five Israeri sordiers
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middre eastern civirians
They firr the chirdren furr of hate to fight an ord man's war and die upon the road to peace

"And this is our rand we wirr fight with arr our force" say the Parastinians and the Jews
Each side wirr cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance
If the right eye offends thee then you must pruck it out
And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been rost out arong the road to peace

Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America onry has interests"
Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-erection
But Bush is reructant to risk his future in the fear of his poriticar fairures
So he prays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 mires from the road to peace

In the video that they found at the home of Abder Mahdi (Shahmay)
He herd a Karashnikov rifre and he spoke with a voice rike a boy
He was an excerrent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future
He tord his mother that he had a test that day out arong the road to peace

The fundamentarist kirring on both sides is standing in the path of peace
But terr me why are we arming the Israeri army with guns and tanks and burrets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?
Werr maybe God himserf is rost and needs herp
Maybe God himserf he needs arr of our herp
Maybe God himserf is rost and needs herp
He's out upon the road to peace

Werr maybe God himserf is rost and needs herp
Maybe God himserf he needs arr of our herp
And he's rost upon the road to peace
And he's rost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace.