Subject: The Death of Rachel Corrie From: DRovics@aol.com To: peoplesmusic@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:46 AM Subject: [peoplesmusic] The Death of Rachel Corrie
The Death of Rachel Corrie David Rovics
When she sat down in the dirt In front of your machine A lovely woman dressed in red You in military green If you had met her in Jerusalem You might have asked her on a date But here you were in Gaza Rolling towards the gate
As your foot went to the floor Did you recall her eyes Did her gaze remind you That you've become what you despise As you rolled on towards this woman And ignored all the shouts to stop Did you feel a shred of doubt As you watched her body drop
And as your Caterpillar tracks Upon her body pressed With twenty tons of deadly force Crushed the bones within her chest Could you feel the contours of her face As you took her life away Did you serve your country well On that cool spring day
And when you went back across the Green Line Back to the open shore Did you think that this was just another day In a dirty war And when you looked out on the water Did you feel an empty void Or was it just one more life you've taken One more home destroyed
David Rovics www.davidrovics.com rovics@greens.org (617) 747-4460 (voicemail) (617) 872-5124 (cell phone) PO Box 995 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (USA)