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作曲 : David Stefan Rovics |
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Khader Adnan grew up near Jenin City |
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You could say he was a product of his time |
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Ever since he was a kid he'd get arrested |
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Though he was never charged with any crime |
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Spending half his life in prison |
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A life lived like so many of his friends |
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Arbitrary and indefinite detention |
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Never knowing if your jail time would end |
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Khader Adnan was arrested last December |
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Again he wasn't told the reason why |
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He was shackled, he was beaten, he was tortured |
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There beneath the Middle Eastern sky |
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Perhaps there was a moment when he realized |
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That right then, with his body, he'd say no |
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But from then on he refused to eat another meal |
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Like in Belfast not many years ago |
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Khader Adnan grew up in a war zone |
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But all the tanks and planes were only on one side |
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It was a type of war that they call occupation |
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Settlement, removal, fratricide |
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And anyone who talked about resistance |
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Who thought they did not deserve to be a slave |
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Would be looking down the barrel of a gun |
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And often find themselves inside an early grave |
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Khader Adnan loves his wife and daughters |
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And he likes to eat his daily bread |
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But in prison he can't see his children |
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Or live life with the lady that he wed |
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So on behalf of all the children without fathers |
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He decided he had to strike a blow |
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He said I will have dignity or death |
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Like in Belfast not many years ago |
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Each time Khader Adnan was arrested |
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In prison he would learn a little more |
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And soon he became the teacher |
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And he'd talk about the times that came before |
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They talked about civil disobedience |
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They talked about the ballot and the gun |
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They talked about the Occupied Six Counties |
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And the H Blocks in 1981 |
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Khader Adnan talked of perseverance |
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And how someday their people might be free |
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How someday they might hear their children laughing |
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Unafraid, how someday things could be |
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And then at 3:30 on one morning |
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The soldiers came, their rifles pointed low |
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And they took Khader Adnan from his family |
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Like in Belfast not many years ago |
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They say Khader Adnan is a terrorist |
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Just like they said of Bobby Sands |
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Because he dares speak out against injustice |
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Because he dares to make a stand |
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Because he dares believe that he is human |
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And he does not deserve to live this way |
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Because he dares to consider an alternative |
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Because he dares imagine a new day |
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Khader Adnan lost his liberty before he was born |
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To fight for life it's death he must embrace |
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But just like others come before him |
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There are others waiting to take his place |
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And even the great powers can lose interest |
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In supporting such a vicious status quo |
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Because you can't break a man who won't be broken |
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Like in Belfast not many years ago |
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Like in Belfast not many years ago |
