We are the family of embattled settlers
In the heart of our land we put down the roots
We live our lives the way we want to
In our hearts and our souls, we follow the truth
Between the barbs of our brothers
And the bombs of our cousins
We survive
We stay alive
And we call
To our nation one and all
Stop your hate
Before it’s too late
We are the last of the beleaguered believers
Holding on tight to what’s left of what’s right
Everyone else has gone black or blank
Only we have remained blue and white
No one could understand
That there’s no such thing in this land
As Right and Left
Only right and wrong
And as the enemy’s jaws close
We’re led along by the nose
Soon there’ll be nothing left
But to sing our swan song
One day
Everything we say
Is going to come true
It’s time
To get back on the line
There’s no time to wait
Before it’s too late
©2023 The Hesh Inc.
I could call this lyric "eerily prescient" in that I wrote it in 1988 and it could be said to presage the horrible events in Gush Katif in 2005, which themselves preceded the horrible "situation" that Israel faces today from terrorists in Gaza. But at the time that I wrote it, there was only speculation of what might happen should a future Israeli government choose to forcibly evacuate residents of the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza the same way it had done some six years earlier in Yamit. That "what if" sense of dread always hung over those communities and to some degree still does, although it is generally recognized, after 2005, that such an undertaking is all but impossible. And as far as I'm concerned ... let it stay impossible. The Jews have returned to their historic heartland and are not going anywhere, regardless of what anyone "wants for their future state." Musically, I imagine the song having a guitar groove similar to Alice in Chains' "Man in the Box," even though that song hadn't oozed out of anyone's consciousness at the time I wrote the lyric. Never recorded or performed.