A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive
They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze
We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who’s wrong or right
But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze
We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
Casi 800.000 visitas en YouTube, 25.000 descargas en su web, 10.000 emails. Estas cifras dan una idea del impacto conseguido con esta canción publicada en YouTube el 7 de enero, con la intención de solidarizarse con el sufrimiento del pueblo palestino durante los ataques de Gaza.
Puedes descargar la canción en formato MP3 desde la web de su creador, Michael Heart, un compositor nacido en Siria y que desde 1990 vive en Los Angeles, EEUU.