Sorry final version - my final version. asi say you change it to suit.

Eyeless in Gaza

Smite the Hebrew,   cried the Philistine
For all these lands are surely mine.
The land of Israel must not be
Drive the Israelites back into the stormy sea.
But the Israelites had a champion
Samson was his name
He killed enemies by the thousand
When down from the hills they came.

They couldn’t beat Samson in combat
So they captured him by guile
He was betray’d, captured,   both his eyes put out
And set to working at a mill.
But they failed to see Samson’s strength had returned
Chained to his cruel past
He saw a way to fight again
Though that vision, it would prove his last

Eyeless in Gaza,
Denied the blessings of the light
You can blind a man with cruelty
To what is wrong and what is right.

Chained to the pillars of Gaza’s temple
Mocked by the drunks and fools of the town.
Samson felt his strength return
And he pulled that temple down.
And that killed the children in the street, just young people having fun
Folk going about their business, and the old men dreaming in the sun.
For when the temple lay in ruins, the chaos seemed to spread
And soon the city of Gaza was just a city of the dead

But we’re not eyeless in Gaza
We don’t have that excuse
Being cruel will only hurts ourselves
And it will blind us to the truth..

Words and music by Alan Whittle©22/10/24