Here's a song I wrote about the peace activist from the West Coast who was killed this week when a bulldozer ran over her in the Gaza Strip.

I put it in this non-music thread I started was about this event, which rapidly turned into a heated discussion about the rights and wrongs of the whole Israel/Palestine thing, rather than about non-violence.

Anyway I know lots of people tend to avoid the BS and non-music threads, with enough good reason, so here the song is once again in case any of them might like to read it or hear it. (If anyone wants to discuss the rights and wrongs of the whole Israel/Palestine thing, I suggest it might be better to head off to that other thread rather than this one.)

Well I know her name was Rachel, and they say that she was shy,
And they say she's got a family to mourn,
And they live out on the West Coast, that's half a world away,
Only twenty three – she'd hardly yet been born,
But she was standing in the way of the war
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the path of the monster once again.
Trying to find some way to stop the killing and the pain
Standing in the way of the war.

Standing in the way of the hatred rolling down,
Standing up with nothing in her hands,
All the way from Washington to the Gaza strip she came,
And she died there with that nothing in her hands.
She was standing in the way of the war
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the path of the monster once again.
Trying to find some way to stop the killing and the pain
Standing in the way of the war.

Standing in the way as the crushing tracks came on,
"We shall not be moved, just like a tree"
All that she could do was put her body on the line
And hope that she could make the driver see.
She was standing in the way of the war
Standing in the way of the war.
Standing in the path of the monster once again.
Trying to find some way to stop the killing and the pain
Standing in the way of the war.

(Here's a link to where it is in my song website - Rachel Corrie - and here is a link to - a sound file (RealAudio)

This song has now been added to the Mudcat Songbook