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von Georges Moustaki

Why don't you stay in your villages
Surrounded by barbed-wires
Why do you go and disturb the world
Who makes a sporting competition
Why don't you sit on your ass
Smoking grass eating beans and drinking
Bitterness
Why don't you work in a factory
Well-paid and Saturday-off
Why don't you wait for a miracle
That will bring justice on this earth
Why do you kill and you die
For a country that does not belong to you
Anymore
Why do you scream when everybody whispers
In the air-conditioned night-clubs
Why do you show your wounded skin
When everybody tries to be healthy
Why do you kidnapp do you hi-jack
Do you make any travel by air-plane
Unsafe
Why are you so weak and so lonely
When everybody tries to be strong
Why don't you stay in your villages
Waiting for bombs and death
Why don't you die
And let the people cry
Right now?