Ding Dong

 

1. WHAT IS VIOLENCE
 
what is violence
what is love
why the bullet
why the dove
 
what to do
and where to go
in a rush
or do it slow
 
why your friend did
or didn't do
but never ask
just who are you
 
i i you say, that
i is me
though it changes
so quickly
 
sometimes i think
i'm quite a man
sometimes i think
i never can
know what to do
to do things right
seems i have to
force or fight
 
we've found ourselves
within a play
the script is written
day by day
some parts come
from long ago
some more recent
make the show
 
there is christ
hitler, now bush too
there's mom and dad
and last night's screw
 
and there we go
our merry way
jump from bed
into the play
try to influence
a bit
try not to fall
into the shit
 
but never ask
just who you are
or where you're going
why so far
 
i, i, you say
that i is me
though it changes
so quickly
 
2. MOTHER THERESA
 
the fear of pain
is what we flee
we flee in fright
eternally
 
the pain in fact
is oh so sweet
though who'd believe
a trick so neat
that just below
the line of fear
the angels blow
their trumpets clear
 
we clutch at love
and strangle it
that's fear again
we're in the shit
 
we tell another
what to do
that's fear my friend
i'm telling you
 
i say don't work to change a thing
but try and act from love
i say don't judge your fellow being
remember what's above
 
the fear of pain though natural
must cease for you to know the all
that some call god
and some call peace
you drop your fear
you are released

Credits:

Lyrics by Alan Rudner.

Music by Sophie Chery, Uri Mossinsohn, Jon Klein
except On Death based on the original version by Alan Rudner, Na'ama Peretz, Ephraim Barak, Itay Elohev.

Produced, engineered and programmed by Jon Klein.
Recorded in London February to August 1997.

Musicians:
Jon Klein - guitars backing vocals keyboard/sampler
Sophie Chery - bass backing vocals
Uri Mossinsohn - vocals percussion harmonica
Na'ama Peretz - vocals
Chris Bell - drums
Steve Fishman - double bass
Adny 'Randy MacFarlane - whistling trombone guitar
Adam Brian - keyboard samples
Martin McCarrick - accordion rainstick
Giora 'Joe' Kariv - tank commands and war noises
Amir Ramati - percussions
Gal Zilberman - cellos
Adam Goldsmith - oud and didjeridoo
Finn, Ciara & Catherine Packard - backing vocals
"The Bigots" ( Ronen, Dotan, Pazi, Shmil ) - backing vocals
Dori Zur - piano