Andy Smythe: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)

A protest at the Israeli bombing of Lebanon. The cluster bombing left unexploded bombs in the orchards where children are still picking fruit and being killed/injured. The love you feel for your kids outweighs anything. I think people should think about the love they feel for their own kids before they drop bombs on other peoples families.

We Love Our Children

Words and Music by Andy Smythe
Arrangement by Peter Readman

We smelt the explosive
Before we saw the flash
Israel’s wrath
So bitter and so rash
Sweeps over our soil
Like a biblical plague
Torching our toil
With its hatred its rage

We love our children
As much as you love yours
Please pray for our children
And we’ll pray for yours

Whole streets turned to rubble
By the missiles and the planes
No hiding place left
They murder and they maim
Our children’s toys
Scattered in the dust
All that we have left
To treasure and to trust