"Forget" genre: AAA/Adult Alternative
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	"Forget" is a song written in the United States during the Winter 1998 bombing of Iraq, in the aftermath of violence and displacement from the Palestinian West Bank.This is a live recording of the first performance of the song from the Black Dog Coffee Bar, St. Paul, MN, on 16 January 1999.
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	Story Behind the Song The first two-thirds of Forget were written on 8 December 1998, which marked six months after I had left the Palestinian West Bank following the bulldozing of my home by members of the Palestinian security forces. I had been thinking a lot about Palestine and its effect on me since then, ironically in the isolating silence of an American environment where the Middle East both figuratively and literally does not seem to exist. The last third of the song was written on 19 December, just after the second major bombing campaign of Iraq by the US and UK. Statistics from UNICEF say that 4,000 - 5,000 Iraqi children die each month as the result of sanctions. Lyrics seen too many things i'd like to forget - the desire to civilise in a soldier's eyes seen too many things i'd like to forget - bleeding teenagers on stretchers not at all sure if they're still alive seen too many things i'd like to forget - september tanks on the hills around my town seen too many things i'd like to forget - not being sure if you'll make it when you say that you'll come around --arrest, arrest, arrest, arrest these things seen too many things i'd like to forget - hope in a prisoner's eyes seen too many things i'd like to forget - belief that manifests in lies seen too many things i'd like to forget but i can't always ar-ar-ar-ticulate them all as yet because there's some things that i believe that we just weren't meant to know or see and i know that you know that we try to forget as if the world outside will pretend with us as well and i know that you know that we try to forget welcome to the closest thing to this side of hell seen too many things i'd like to forget - a border guard - knows he's your god for at least five minutes while you die inside and wish you were not one of the not chosen ones - the palestinian niggers of the middle east - i mean would you want your children to conclude that they should never have been born with a genetic tan or a different lan-lan-lan- language is a whore we fall in love with and beg for more i was never afraid until i realised that evil lives and breathes outside of horror movies in the sound of the cock of guns on third world city streets and i never realised that people even shot each other until i saw it with my own eyes - my own eyes, i'd scratch them out if i thought for a minute it would erase my mind - you see i'm not ready to believe that people can read and not find funny about the 'accuracy' of a 'smart bomb' that lands in completely the wrong country have you ever thought about the technology that we use to kill? Have you ever thought that there's a design and testing process or do statistics make you ill? because it was former u.s. attourney general ramsey clark that pointed out that our sanctions offed over and above one and a half million iraqis before the first missile even hit the ground. 8 and 19 December 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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