Free song of the week: Intifada !

In order to celebrate the new website, Doc Jazz’s most popular song will again be downloadable for free for a week! Click here  now and get your free download!

This song is from the album Front Door Key, which can be purchased from the Palestine Online Store. If you buy the CD, you will be giving a contribution to pro-Palestinian activism, since the revenues of the album are invested by the store owner in pro-Palestinian advocacy.

If you look in the right column, you will see a video player, and the first music video is that of ‘Intifada’! Don’t forget to check out the other videos as well, since they will give you an excellent idea of what Doc Jazz is all about.

About the song: it was written in the year 2000, right after the start of the second Intifada. Back then, I was a regular at the website Ramallah Online, and after I recorded the song I shared it with its members. The original recording of the song is no longer available, since it was outdone by the production for the album Front Door Key, which had Forrest Thomas as its producer.

However, that original home-studio recording was an instant success, which motivated me to continue writing songs about the situation in Palestine, and which eventually led to the website project ‘Musical Intifada’. That website was kept updated for many years, until the end of 2007.

In some ways, this new website can be considered a relaunch of the old project, although it still needs some work before it can be rightfully seen as such. As time goes by, we will see if the good old times of the Musical Intifada can be revived, or indeed be taken to a higher level.

Here are the lyrics to ‘Intifada’; hope you enjoy, and that it inspires you!

Doc Jazz

INTIFADA – Doc Jazz

Occupation is a hazardous game
If you get your hands dirty it will burn you like a flame
They want us to bow down surrender our home town
For building colonies creating a show down

It’s not political or meta-analytical
It’s plain and straight war crimes targeting civilians
North American Indians, Australian Aboriginals
The people of the land all wiped into oblivion

It is never right to steal another people’s country
Your uebermensch philosophy has smothered your morality
No fake excuses, no media control
Can cover up the crime
It is vivid to us all

Because in Palestine
There are people trying Just to live their life in peace
Though they’re occupied
You can’t control their lives
Because they’re fighting to be free

Have you heard the story about 1948
I’m sure you’ve heard a story but not what took place
Ethnic cleansing like the kind you saw in Kosovo
Protected by the powerful and treated o so loveable

Justice? seems they don’t know what that is
They say: power is a healthy way of solving this quiz
Military power, economical power
Without continuous infusions they wouldn’t last an hour

You better stop breaking our bones
You better stop wrecking our homes
You better stop stealing our lands
Beware of the anger of the innocent

Because in Palestine
There are people trying
Just to live their life in peace
Though they’re occupied
You can’t control their lives
Because they’re fighting to be free

It’s a tragedy of inhumanity
Would you rather close your eyes?
Can’t go on this way
Just wake up someday
Or you will have to pay the price

People of the world beware of Zionism
It’s a racist ideology like National Socialism
United Nations Resolution 3379
You wiped it from the records but not from our minds

We will never give up
We’re ready for the fight
Never give up
Beloved Palestine
Never give up
The struggle to survive
We’re rising up
To rescue Palestine

We will never give up
We’re ready for the fight
Never give up
Beloved Palestine
We’re rising up
Intifada
We’re rising up
Intifada