Parents of the Dead

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Dave Pierce

Dave Pierce (born October 24, 1972) is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator. Pierce was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction in 2010; arranger/orchestrator for Twyla Tharp's Frank Sinatra musical, Come Fly Away (opened March 2010) in New York at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway and later that year opening as Sinatra Dance With Me at the Wynn Las Vegas; and music director of the Calgary Stampede Evening Grandstand Show. Pierce was the musical director of the 2009 Gemini Awards television show in Canada. He is father of two daughters. Pierce has worked with a variety of performers, including Mic… more »

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Out on the streets we heard the blast
An explosion, then a commotion
A Palestinian iconoclast
Brain-dead with devotion
And in the aftermath the chill
As we took in amongst the kill
Our Sarah's bloodied form lay still
In expelled animation

We are the parents of the dead
The angry, innocent bereaved
Instead of hatred we share grief
No matter what our race or creed

A rifle-shot, a ricochet
Farrago down in Gaza
Stealthily searching a passageway
Snap-sighting down a laser
An Israeli soldier on patrol
Sniping at shadows in cubby-holes
Took out Badawi scurrying home
From school to you, his father

We are the parents of the dead
The angry, innocent bereaved
Instead of hatred we share grief
No matter what our race or creed

Each retribution brings no end
To slaughter of the innocents
We call on both sides to repent
So wounds can heal and hearts can mend
May cousins learn to understand
How two states share the Promised Land
We are one, Arabs and Israelis
The Circle of Bereaved Families

We are the parents of the dead
The angry, innocent bereaved
Instead of hatred we share grief
No matter what our race or creed
We are the parents of the dead
We are the parents of the dead

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