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Album: Roots & Wings |
Not by Might
 If Not Now  |
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Track: 3. What Happened to the Dream? - 3:35 |
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Music and Lyrics by Linda Hirschhorn © 1990
Vocal Harmonies: Abbe Lyons, Linda Hirschhorn
Percussion: Jan Padover
Guitar: Nina Gerber
Bass: Sam Page
Verse 1:
For two thousand years our vision held fast:
We would go back to the land of our past,
no longer an exile or poor refugee;
We'd return to the land where our children would go free.
Verse 2:
Oh, my mother's mother, her family lost
in the terrible blaze of the holocaust;
But my safety can't be bought at the price
of someone else's sacrifice.
Chorus
What happened to the dream?
What happened to the dream?
Verse 3:
So many years for the city of gold
deep in its heart their stories are told
in the messages left in the old temple wall
in the prayers and the music of the muezzin's call.
Chorus
Verse 4:
The swamps were drained and the desert bloomed
in the hopes that there would always be room,
but the land wasn't empty as some tried to claim:
Its people had roots and a history and a name.
Chorus
Verse 5:
Oh Israel, Oh Palestine,
forever our past and our futures entwine,
but soon the land will have nothing to give;
Choose peace and we and our children may live.
Chorus
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© 1990 Linda Hirschhorn, Kehila Publications (BMI) ℗  Oyster Albums, P.O. Box 3929, Berkeley, CA 949703
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ISRC: US-CGH-05-75952 |