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Luke Payne - Sundown In Gaza

from Round 32, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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I find this story so bleak that I mostly try to tune it out, but it has been hard to do so lately. My lyrics here are based on a story by Iyad Abuheweila
from Friday's NYT. I mostly just crudely shaped his words into something singable.

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Sundown In Gaza

Sundown on May 12
Ordered shawarma
To break my Ramadan fast

Up in my single room
In Gaza City
I watch the missiles fly past

My friend came over
Stared at the TV
I watch the colors in the sky

Another rocket launch
Another airstrike
I watch the minutes go by

Voices in the street
Whistling and chanting
“God is great, God is great”
I’m on my knees
Praying I’ll see another day

For twenty seven years
We have been lucky
To say our morning prayers

Six younger siblings
Live with my parents
In the apartment downstairs

Now Gazas shaking
I go to join them
To be with them when we die

Assad and Ayman
Maysaa and Ayda
Huddle together and cry

Death is everywhere
Feeding this fury
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Into the night
Into the darkness there go I

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from Round 32, Week 4, released May 24, 2021

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