[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:07.01]Khader Adnan grew up near Jenin City
[00:10.06]You could say he was a product of his time
[00:13.14]Ever since he was a kid he'd get arrested
[00:16.29]Though he was never charged with any crime
[00:19.99]Spending half his life in prison
[00:22.59]A life lived like so many of his friends
[00:26.25]Arbitrary and indefinite detention
[00:29.60]Never knowing if your jail time would end
[00:32.20]Khader Adnan was arrested last December
[00:35.90]Again he wasn't told the reason why
[00:39.00]He was shackled, he was beaten, he was tortured
[00:42.30]There beneath the Middle Eastern sky
[00:45.50]Perhaps there was a moment when he realized
[00:48.20]That right then, with his body, he'd say no
[00:51.65]But from then on he refused to eat another meal
[00:55.00]Like in Belfast not many years ago
[01:00.00]Khader Adnan grew up in a war zone
[01:03.20]But all the tanks and planes were only on one side
[01:06.50]It was a type of war that they call occupation
[01:09.61]Settlement, removal, fratricide
[01:12.75]And anyone who talked about resistance
[01:15.90]Who thought they did not deserve to be a slave
[01:19.20]Would be looking down the barrel of a gun
[01:22.20]And often find themselves inside an early grave
[01:26.14]Khader Adnan loves his wife and daughters
[01:29.19]And he likes to eat his daily bread
[01:32.60]But in prison he can't see his children
[01:35.64]Or live life with the lady that he wed
[01:38.96]So on behalf of all the children without fathers
[01:42.24]He decided he had to strike a blow
[01:45.84]He said I will have dignity or death
[01:49.26]Like in Belfast not many years ago
[01:55.00]Each time Khader Adnan was arrested
[01:57.80]In prison he would learn a little more
[02:01.00]And soon he became the teacher
[02:04.58]And he'd talk about the times that came before
[02:07.47]They talked about civil disobedience
[02:10.20]They talked about the ballot and the gun
[02:14.00]They talked about the Occupied Six Counties
[02:17.30]And the H Blocks in 1981
[02:20.55]Khader Adnan talked of perseverance
[02:23.62]And how someday their people might be free
[02:27.07]How someday they might hear their children laughing
[02:30.36]Unafraid, how someday things could be
[02:33.71]And then at 3:30 on one morning
[02:36.73]The soldiers came, their rifles pointed low
[02:40.45]And they took Khader Adnan from his family
[02:43.50]Like in Belfast not many years ago
[02:49.35]They say Khader Adnan is a terrorist
[02:52.11]Just like they said of Bobby Sands
[02:55.31]Because he dares speak out against injustice
[02:58.51]Because he dares to make a stand
[03:02.04]Because he dares believe that he is human
[03:05.05]And he does not deserve to live this way
[03:08.30]Because he dares to consider an alternative
[03:11.26]Because he dares imagine a new day
[03:14.93]Khader Adnan lost his liberty before he was born
[03:18.48]To fight for life it's death he must embrace
[03:21.43]But just like others come before him
[03:25.06]There are others waiting to take his place
[03:28.12]And even the great powers can lose interest
[03:31.43]In supporting such a vicious status quo
[03:34.67]Because you can't break a man who won't be broken
[03:38.16]Like in Belfast not many years ago
[03:43.55]Like in Belfast not many years ago