Iron Dome

For two thousand years we were strangers Taxed and chased and told to bow our heads From the Rhineland fires to Kishinev We buried our children and we prayed instead Then the trains rolled east through the winter And six million walked into the night The world looked away, the world stayed silent And we swore by the ashes: never without a fight Never again! We won't go softly! Never again to the slaughter like sheep! Pick on us and we'll outsmart you Rise against us and we'll never sleep Never again! Am Yisrael Xai! The people of Israel live! Nineteen forty-eight, a nation of refugees Five armies marching on the very first day Farmers with rifles and the camp survivors Held the line and the state was here to stay Then June of sixty-seven, six days of thunder Encircled and outnumbered, they struck at dawn And soldiers wept at the stones of the Wall Jerusalem whole again, and the fear was gone Never again! We won't go softly! Never again to the slaughter like sheep! Pick on us and we'll outsmart you Rise against us and we'll never sleep Never again! Am Yisrael Xai! The people of Israel live! Seventy-six, a plane hijacked to Africa Hostages held under Entebbe's sky Four thousand kilometres through the dark They flew in by night and brought them home alive Ninety-one, a different kind of mission Ethiopian Jews in a famine and war Thirty-six hours, fourteen thousand souls Carried on wings to a promised shore On the mountain at Masada The young soldiers swear the vow "Masada shall not fall again" Not then… not ever… not now… And the ghetto fighters of Warsaw With pistols against an empire's might Taught us all that a Jew with a weapon Is a Jew who lives to see the light Now the rockets rain from the north and the south And the Iron Dome lights up the sky Brains in the bunkers, code in the ether The smallest of nations, the sharpest eye On a black Sabbath they came to kill us And the whole world saw what hatred can do But a people who survived Pharaoh and Rome Will survive this too… will survive this too… Never again! We won't go softly! Never again to the slaughter like sheep! Pick on us and we'll outsmart you Rise against us and we'll never sleep Never again! Am Yisrael Xai! Never again! Am Yisrael Xai! The people of Israel live! The people of Israel live!