Tom Waits - Road To Peace

Tom Waits "Road to Peace" from the album "Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards".

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[oisinallen]

Are you people retarded or something?

The song isn't "anti-Israel", "anti-Palestine", "anti-Zionist" or anti-anyone else. It's anti-War.

The key line is "they fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war", which basically means that they are convincing kids to die for their "religion" (be it Judaism or Islam) because it's the only way for the old men (ie. politicians) to keep their power.

Israel is the worse of the two, but there's no "Zionism", just plain, ugly, unnecessary war.

[foospuppet]

A girl showed me tom waits and this song!! Prob gonna marry her lol :)

[14Jester88]

@MsPharoah1 Unfortunately, both you and Mr. Netanyahu are wrong.

[MsPharoah1]

Wow, what trash!! It is not that simple, folks! "If Palestine were to lay down their guns tomorrow, there would be no war. If Israel were to lay down theirs, there would be no Israel - Benjamin Netanyahu

[lilm0mmiejay]

man can u all shut the fuck up and just enjoy the fuckin music like fuck rilli

[merklingassoc]

@msmollyjames7 you missed Waits’ message completely, it’s about change & ending persecution. Every religion has been persecuted at sometime. Your words persecute believers of Christianity & Islam. I'm Catholic; I’ve never forced my beliefs on another, even if their beliefs differ from mine. What’s important is their character; are they kind, caring, loving. This isn’t a religious debate it’s about the sorrow of losing our youth to the hated & bigoted beliefs passed on by their elders...PART 1

[merklingassoc]

@msmollyjames7 Here’s the lyric’s from the 2nd verse...”A tall thin boy with a wispy moustache, disguised as an Orthodox Jew. On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War II. And the thunderous explosion blew out windows, 200 yards away. More retribution & 17 dead, along the road to peace”. Waits was expressing sadness, 17 lives were lost, some of them might have even survived WWII & the concentration camps, to then die on a bus, by 17 year olds mislead sense of justice. PART 2

[merklingassoc]

@msmollyjames7 Race & religion isn’t what matters, it’s the senseless deaths by/of our youths, our future. Due to greedy politicians & old harbored hatreds. Change needs to happen & it needs to happen NOW! Thank you Tom Waits for having the courage to write/perform/distribute a song that’s controversial, especially when it impassions our youths to care, think & respond. Tom you stated in an interview that one song can’t really make a difference or effect change. I think your wrong…..PART 3

[King24223]

@msmollyjames7 Are you fucking idiotic? Jews are not the saints of the three religions, and you're a fucking moron, or a brainwashed idiot. All are guilty. All are to be ashamed of their behavior for supposed "holy" men. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

I guess if someones a muslim, in you're eyes, that means they can die. Just like all those palestinians that deserve to die, eh? Fuck you.

[loerez]

@msmollyjames7 Done. Now nuke Germany, please. Hitler wasn´t a Palestinian.

[LokNaar]

Can we all just stop killing each other please? It would be better for all of our children and people who don't want to die in some old timey grudge match! We all want to live our lives, maybe we don't CARE ABOUT THE OLD HATE ANYMORE. The haters will never get the point of this point of view, but maybe you will. Stop the bloodshed, that's all we want. Disagree somewhere else.