Bella Belisima (from "Lazooz") Part II

She replied to the journalist that
she didn't have time to think.
She replied to the journalist that
she didn't have time to think.

Bella Belisima, Bella Belisima...

That incident with the woman in
imprinted in my head.
Where did she get the strength
to lie there without moving,
without fear.

I ask myself
what I would have done in her place
if asthe same moment
I had been
in the area.

It's clear to me that I wouldn't have gone over
to kick him
But to be fair and tell the truth
I don't think I would have been
capable
of behaving like her.

Much more typical of me to get up
and run away
Or at the most
try to find a cop
or something.

But she lay there until her strength waned.
For twenty minutes she took all those kicks
Her children, they watched
they did not stop crying.

Bella Belisima, Bela Belisima...

This lady did not become a symbol
And her name has been effectively
erased from all consciousness.

There is no stamp with her face
Perhaps because Israel is not yet ready
and is not yet willing
to accept a hero
whose heroism is not in war --
a hero whose heroism is not in the military,
a hero whose heroism is just moral,
a hero who is a woman,
and a haredi, too.

Know this,
dear woman,
I did not forget
The story of your heroism.
I promised to myself
that this story is worth education children with

It's a story that is worth educating children with,
It's a story that is worth educating children with,
It is a story that is worthy...

Bella Belisima, Bella Belisima...

Shalom Salam Peace (from "Hamechona Shel Hagroove")

Shalom Salaam Peace

Shalom Salaam peace
It's also possible here,
not just in Paris or in Nice or in Addis Ababa.

Discos full of people,
they are all dancing because they are all content.
Smiling, dancing, singing.
They are blessed with peace.
Because there is peace.

Shalom Salaam peace.
Shalom Salaam peace
It's also possible here
Not just in Paris or in Tunis or in Nice Nice Nice.

We'll rout out the enemies,
We'll meet the hostility.
We'll defeat the terror,
We'll spread love.
No one wants to die,
But if we must
Then isn't it preferable in Levi's [jeans]
In place of a uniform?

With the help of weed
We'll banish the sadness.
They all can dance now,
To live within the beat.

Shalom Salaam peace.
Shalom Salaam peace,
It's possible here, too,
Not just in Paris or in Nice or in Amsterdam,
But here, too.

Bella Belisima (from "Lazooz")

Bella Belisima (from Lazooz)

This is a story
worth educating children with
This is a worthy
story
Tuesday, 12th May, 1992
A woman steps out of her house
in Jerusalem
Normal, standard day
nothing special
like any other day

A load of kids in the streets --
There was a teachers' strike
Same time exactly a revolting terrorist
Pulls out a kitchen knife
and
with it
stabs two innocent kids

Another mad, cruel attack
Another nationalist attack

He sets off running because a mob
is in pursuit
And catches him after a few
seconds
in the car park.
Tens of people kicking him --
They want to close the score

I don't judge them
It's an irrational event
It's a flawed situation
awful, revolting, unclear

But then turns up the woman
and alters the end of the story
Because she straight off throws
herself on the terrorist
and
protects wit her body
the terrorist
who is also a human
though without
her body
would have ended up a corpse

"I don't understand,
weren't you afraid with that madman
beneath you
and the mob so close?
Wouldn't it have been easier to give up and leave?"

to be continued