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(Singing) Don’t want
to preach to no one tonight

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Just want to tell my tale

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When the sun will rise tomorrow

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It will shed a light
on some facts from hell

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Clouds are floating in the sky

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Shift the mood so fast

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Like on the streets of Jerusalem

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Where the quiet’s not meant to last

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I'm gonna find you tonight

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I'm gonna count from one to three

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I'm gonna feel the peace within me

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With you right here next to me

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I was born into this reality

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I was brought up with a war

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It doesn’t mean I must accept this

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Don’t wanna fight no more

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Young people from all over

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Stray away and cross the lines

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It’s a dialogue that we’re seeking

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And we’re running out of time

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I'm gonna find you tonight

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I'm gonna count from one to three

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I'm gonna feel the peace within me

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With you right here next to me

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I'm gonna find you tonight

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I'm gonna count from one to three

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I'm gonna feel the peace within me

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With you right here next to me

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I'm gonna find you tonight

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I'm gonna count from one to three

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I'm gonna feel the peace within me

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With you right here next to me

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With you right here next to me

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With you right here

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Next to me

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(Singing and music ends)

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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It's a real honor to be here,
be part of this wonderful day,

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listening to so many inspiring
stories and discoveries.

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My discovery is just
the power of music really,

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and it has taken me 38 years of a career

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to really understand it,
and to bring it forward, and to use it,

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not just here in Jerusalem, in Israel,
in the Middle East but wherever I go.

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I don't mean to fix the world,

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and I don't think that I'm going
to change the world at all,

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I'm going to change my world,
and this is what makes me happy.

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I started my career 38 years ago.

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I started just by playing love songs,
I still play love songs.

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But it's those places
where I play those love songs

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that make a difference for me.

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And I think, and I hope, and I try
to make a difference on others

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as I entertain and play
in some impossible situations:

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could be by a bedside in a hospital,
could be in a war zone,

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could be just in an accident area,

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or just some bereaved people,
and parents, and friends.

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But this story that I want
to tell you, briefly,

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which belongs to an album actually,

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and this song that I just sang,
"One to Three", is the first song

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that I wrote for this album.

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It's an album that is called
"East Jerusalem West Jerusalem".

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It wasn't really the name
I thought this would be,

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but it's how it happened
and how it worked out to be.

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I'd been working all my life

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- besides doing music and playing -

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in manifestations, being socially active,

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but I never talked about it,
I never really recorded it,

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never really wanted to profess
about it, or brag about it.

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But this is a time when I felt
that I could, and I had to.

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I've been working here in East Jerusalem

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for the past 16 years, since 1999.

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I don't know if I should call it work.

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Most of the time, me and my friends,

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who are very prominent
Palestinian musicians and artists,

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I don't think we play music
most of the time.

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We have coffee, we have
a lot of kebab, a lot of salads,

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a lot of downtime;
most of the time, we just hang out.

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And I'm always ready
with my guitar to sit and play,

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but there is also something that you learn
about building a relationship,

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and that is building a relationship:

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caring about those who you're with,
listening to them, laughing,

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making stupid jokes
even on the most awkward situations

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of which there are so many here
in the Middle East.

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We've been through Intifadas
and we've been through wars,

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and we've always kept together.

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I've always come up from Tel Aviv
- which is my home -

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driving into East Jerusalem,

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feeling the safest I could ever feel
amongst my friends and my peers.

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Sixteen years of this friendship,

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calmly and actually
in a very Middle Eastern fashion

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which, I think, the motto of it,
somewhat of like the Spaniards,

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who, I've learned to know over the years,
always use the "mañana" term,

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as to "Don't rush, can do it tomorrow."

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Well, here in the Middle East, we say,
in Arabic one says, "Shwy shwy."

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Slowly, slowly, one step at a time.

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See, as an Israeli,
I want to tick it all at once.

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I have an idea, I want to have it,
haven't happened the next day.

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But that is not the way things are.

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It's not only about Palestine,
or Israel, or Middle East,

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this would be the same about any
of the indigenous people around the world.

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Ancient people have much longer
time to figure things out.

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So about four years ago,
one of my friends, a Palestinian musician,

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said to me, "So, David, when are you going
to bring that project of yours together

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that you've talked about
so many times ever so often?"

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I was just waiting for that.

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Because I thought I was the one who had
the burning fire in me to get it happen.

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Well, he didn't finish that sentence,

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and already my head
was working in triple mode,

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I was running in my head,
"How do I do it?"

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So I started writing songs.

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I told them, "Don't worry, I'll bring
the production here into the studio."

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And I started writing songs,

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the first of which is the one I opened
this conversation with, "One to Three".

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I wrote more songs,

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and all of them came out in English,
and all of them were telling the story.

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To some degree, it's a personal
story mixed with love,

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to some degree,
it's anxiety, anxiousness,

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wanting to see the end to war,

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I don't know how and why it so happened.

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But then I had to recruit and bring

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the musicians
and the production into place.

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I thought, you know, that the music
would be the biggest obstacle.

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All these years I've been out here

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in East Jerusalem,
with my Palestinian friends,

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it was just me from Tel Aviv,
sometime my kids, my wife,

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but I was alone.

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None of my musicians ever really
accepted an invitation.

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They were rather reluctant to come

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when they found out
they were busy doing other things.

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But this time, as I was progressing
with this production,

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I thought, OK, let's tackle
the first hurdle,

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let's see if my Israeli band
would come from Tel Aviv for once

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and see what I see, feel what I feel,
and experience this wonderful place,

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and the comradery that can be built
and that can be a bridge,

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and that can make us happier
and feel safer with each other.

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So on a way to show in this crammed van,

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as I was portraying to my friends
what music I was writing,

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and that I was about to go to the studio
to produce the next album,

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I could see that their ears were perked

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and they were really
eager to be part of it,

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but I was not inviting them yet,
I just got their interest, all focused.

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A day later, on another trip to a show,

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I told them, "I'm thinking of inviting
you, guys, to this production."

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And everybody is, "Yes! So cool!

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We can't wait to do an album
once again with you."

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I said, "Yeah, but we're going to do it
in the studio in East Jerusalem,

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It's a Palestinian studio."

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And right away, the conversation
went elsewhere.

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Suddenly, we were talking
about general news issues

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and just nerve-wrecking stories
that were not of interest to me.

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Anyhow, I realized that I'm going
to have to work a little longer.

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The following day, I'm asking,

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"OK, I'm thinking of really booking
the studio now. I'd like you to come."

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They said, "Well...

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Suddenly, and for the first time,

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- see, we're a bunch of men
in this band of mine,

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and, well, rock-and-rollers
are supposedly tough guys -

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and suddenly, there is, "Well, OK...

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- unanimously -

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we're going to ask our wives."

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(Laughter)

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OK, tough guys.

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(Laughter)

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The next day, I wait.

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I mean, we're in a crammed van,
no one can get away here.

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And they say, "Well, the wives
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they don't want to be left alone
just with the kids..."

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So I'm saying, "Wait a second.

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First of all, I promise you
we're going to do it in 8 days."

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Normally, an album can take weeks, months.
"We're going to do it in 8 days."

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The only reason I said "8 days"
is that if I'd said "a week",

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nobody would believe me
we could do it in a week.

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"Eight days," that sounds
like a real, you know

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(Laughter)

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affordable and relaxed time
to make an album.

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They said, "OK, well,
you know, we'll ask..."

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I said, "No, no. Just tell your wives
that they're welcome to come.

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There is a wonderful hotel nearby,
and I'll take rooms for everyone."

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So the wives, the next day,
the message that I got was

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there was nobody who could
take care of the kids.

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I said, "What? In-laws? Parents? Cousins?

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Bring them too! Just bring
the whole neighbourhood!

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(Laughter)

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Let's make it into a real event."

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Anyway, sure enough, I got them to commit.

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Now I had to get a producer.

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If I'm going to get a producer,
it'd better be, maybe, an American one,

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because it is all in English,
I want it to be Americana,

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more American-flavored,
internationally-flavored.

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So I started making lists, and I thought,

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"OK, if I'm going to turn
to every producer I want,

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most of them will say no

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because they aren't comfortable
coming to Israel because of the boycott.

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I'll go to the most extreme one first,

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the one who I respect his views,
but I know he's a hard one to crack."

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So I called Steve Earle.

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He's one of the most respected
singers-songwriters and opinion makers,

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and a real activist.

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I called him first, I knew he would be
off the list immediately.

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I didn't finish the sentence
that I want to bring

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Israeli and Palestinian musicians
in the studio in East Jerusalem,

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and he said, "Hey, man! I'm on.
When? Just tell me."

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"Wait! I don't even have a budget."

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"Forget the budget. I'm just coming."

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So now I had him.

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I announced to the Israeli musicians,
"OK, guys, we're on."

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I set the date for January 20, 2013.

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Now I had to convince
my Palestinian musicians.

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This was a bit of a hurdle.

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Some of them come under a lot of pressure.

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So I figured even if they don't come,
I'll just be there with my musicians.

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But what I will do is I will bring
Israeli and Palestinian chefs

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who'd make us incredible banquets
every night with Michelin food,

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superb Israeli wine, even whiskey

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for those who really want to drink
and just get loosened up.

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And you know what?

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After the first night, when we had
over 100 people around the table,

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- including the film crew
because I made a film out of it,

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under the same name
"East Jerusalem West Jerusalem" -

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we had all the musicians,
the engineers, and the waiters,

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and then the friends,
and friends of friends,

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and family, and wives, and children,

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everybody was there,
I almost booked the entire hotel.

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We spent eight days and eight nights,
and those Palestinian friends came,

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and sure enough, after a couple
of glasses of wine and good food,

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walked into the studio,
and we started playing together.

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And eight days later, lo and behold,

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I had my most beautiful album
recorded together with these people.

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It was like a miraculous moment,

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it was as if we had created
an utopic bubble in our world.

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Now what we had to do is get on with it
and sing to the rest of the world

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which is what I'm doing now
traveling around the world.

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(Applause)

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Thank you so much.

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It's very inspiring,

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and the most important thing
for me was to inspire others

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to dare, to go over
that threshold, don't be afraid.

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I don't know if you are a doctor,
an architect, a masseuse,

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a poet, a philosopher; just engage!

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Engage with out neighbours,

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with our friends across the street,
across the wall, across any place,

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whether you're in Israel, Palestine,
whether you're in Colombia, in Mexico,

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whether you're in the Latin quarters
in some, so to speak, bad neighborhood,

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don't be afraid!

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Don't be afraid to cross over.

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We're only people, and everybody
wants the same thing:

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to feel safe by knowing each other,
or feeling each other out,

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and knowing what to watch out for.

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Don't believe the stories,
make them yourselves.

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(Applause)

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I started with the most recent
song that I've recorded.

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I would like to, perhaps,
conclude this part of mine,

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and perhaps, the entire event
- I believe I'm concluding the event -

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with the first song I ever recorded.

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This is the song I wrote
in 1977, 38 years ago.

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It was November,
when the President Anwar Sadat of Egypt

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set foot on Israeli soil
for the first time.

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Watching this happen [was]
the most unbelievable moment

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for my generation and others,
my parents' generation, and grandparents'.

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I was with my good friend,
Israeli poet Yehonatan Geffen,

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watching this,

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as he was writing down
feverishly this poem,

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and then handed it to me, and said,
"Why don't you write music?"

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As if saying, "Do something
with your life, you know." (Laughter)

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"You're sitting and just watching."

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So I wrote music to it,
he gave me two days.

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And hence, I wrote this song
called "Things Will Be Better",

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as we say, "Yihye Tov".

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(Guitar music)

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(Applause)

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(Singing in Hebrew)
I'm looking out the window

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And it makes me kind of sad

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Spring has long gone,
who knows if it'll return

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The clown has become a king

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The prophet has become a clown

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And I have forgotten the way

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But I am still here

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Things will be better,
things will be better

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Though I sometimes break down

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So tonight, oh, tonight

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It's you I'm staying with

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Children wear wings,
and they fly off to the army

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And after a couple of years

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They come back with no answer

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People live in stress
looking for a reason to breath

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And between hatred and murder

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They talk about peace

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Things will be better,
things will be better

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Though I sometimes break down

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So tonight, oh, tonight

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It's you I'm staying with

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Up there in the sky

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Clouds are learning how to fly

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And I look up

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And see a hijacked plane

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A government of generals

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Divide away the scenery

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Into yours and ours

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And no one sees the end of it

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There came the president of Egypt

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How rejoiced I was to see him

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Pyramids in his eyes,
smoke of peace out of his pipe

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We said, 'Let's make up
and live as brothers'

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So he said, 'Let's do that

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Just get out of the territories'

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Things will be better,
things will be better, yeah

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Though I sometimes break down

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So tonight, oh, tonight

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It's you I'm staying with.

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(English) As I said, this song
was written 38 years ago.

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Or I've been stuck with it
for 38 years, got to say

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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but as with folk songs, you know,

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they tend to expand and change with times.

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Every time the peace process moved

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to a positive moment,

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I knew I was going to get a new verse

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from my friend Yehonatan Geffen
who was still prolific in writing.

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So there is endless--

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I mean 38 years, you don't want me to sing
all the verses because we'd be here

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(Laughter)

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till sunset which is something
I'm used to (Laughter)

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but not with one song.

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So I'd like to conclude with one verse
that, I think, sums it all up.

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And this one says

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we should learn to live together

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under the olive trees.

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And that children will grow up
knowing no more war,

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no terror, and no frontiers.

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And that fresh, new grass will grow
over the graveyards for love and peace.

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For after 100 years of war,

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we haven't and will not lose hope.

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(Singing in Hebrew) Some day
we'll learn how to live together

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Under the olive trees

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Children will live without fear

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Without borders, without bomb shelters

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On graves grass will grow

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For peace

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(Applause)

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And love

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A hundred years of sword

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And the hope still hasn't died

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Things will be better

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(English) You can join!

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(Hebrew) Things will be better

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Though sometimes I break down

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So tonight, oh, tonight

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It's you I'm staying with

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And things will be better,
things will be better

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Sometimes I break down

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So tonight, oh, tonight

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It's you I'm staying with

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I'm looking out of the window

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Maybe

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Maybe it's coming

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It's coming, maybe a new day is coming

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(Applause)

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(Cheering)

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Things will get better!

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(Applause) (Cheering)