[Marxism] Piecing together the meaning of terrorism in retrospective

["Jurriaan Bendien" <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Being sick and tired of reading stupid doctrinal lectures, trainings and
pontifications about the politically correct policy on terrorism and
anti-terrorism, I was looking the BBC site just now, and I found a
remarkable story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3406041.stm . You
might ask, "why concern yourself with the BBC, or why read the newspaper at
this moment" ? It's a valid question, I suppose.

Well, I do not know what media market they're orienting to at present, but,
I have a hunch that the BBC has something to tell us, and that there are
still good, capable, exacting and conscientious journalists working for the
BBC, journalists with integrity and expression that one can learn from in
terms of linguistic skill, and as for personal existential questions, we can
talk about those forever and a day, but that resolves nothing here and now,
and are best resolved in private. What concerns me here is public
existential questions. Insofar as no public/private distinction exists, then
no talking will be done.

UNACCEPTABLE DESTRUCTION OF AN OBJECT OF ART

The story I obtained proves my hunch has some validity. The BBC reported
that the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, vandalised an artwork
called called "Snow White" on Friday at Stockholm's Museum of Antiquities.
The art object of the protest, in which visitors could reflect themselves
and could reflect on, was part of the "Making Differences" exhibition - a
international anti-genocide conference hosted by the Swedish Government no
less, and to which Israel has been specifically invited, an impressive
gesture in a highly charged political situation.

The artwork depicted a Palestinian suicide bomber, 29-year-old trainee
lawyer Hanadi Tayseer Jaradat from Jenin, who was avenging the killing by
Israeli troops of her brother and a cousin, an Islamic Jihad member. Jaradat
, who killed 19 Israelis + 1 (including children) and wounded 60 in a
suicide bombing in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa on the Sabbath, October 4,
2003, between 2:15 and 2:20 pm,  two days before Yom Kippur, the Day of
Atonement, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The restaurent was packed
at that time with lunching families dining in advance of a day of fasting.

Ambassador Mazel was expelled from the Museum after, in a moment of
extraordinary revulsion resumably, he threw a spotlight at the art object,
and a Swedish foreign ministry spokeswoman, quoted by the AFP news agency,
said sensibly "We will contact him on Monday to arrange a meeting". "We want
to give him a chance to explain himself. We feel that it is unacceptable for
him to destroy art in this way."

THE SCENES OF THE INCIDENTS

Maxim's restaurant was situated on Hahagana Boulevard, near the southern
entrance of Haifa, 130 kilometres north of Jerusalem. It was packed mostly
with regular Saturday customers who were blasted with ball bearings, nails
and shrapnel. The restaurant has been in joint Jewish-Arab ownership for 38
years. Located by the seashore near a major junction at the southern
entrance to Haifa, the popular jointly Arab-Israeli owned restaurant, 'Makom
Maxim' (translates to 'Excellent Place') was also a favorite haunt of the
Maccabi Haifa soccer team, as well as being one of the proud symbols of
coexistence in the mixed city. The restaurant shares a wall with a petrol
station.

The Israeli Defence Force had slapped a total closure on the occupied
territories during the holiday period, but Jaradat had apparently slipped
from Jenin into Israel. She was sheltered by locals, and driven to the
restaurant Saturday by unknown accomplices. An Israeli Arab from Umm
al-Fahm, Jamal Mahnaje, aged 47, was subsequently arrested by police and
Shin Bet, allegedly confessing to investigators that he had dined with
Jararat prior to the bombing. She had asked him by telephone the day before
the bombing, asking him to drive her to Rambam Hospital in Haifa the next
day. She told him that she was an attorney, and wished to visit her ailing
father in the hospital.

Mahnaje said that they arranged for him to pick her up in the area of Bartaa
village, north of Bakr al-Garbiyeh, Israel, and near Baka al-Sharkiyeh, in
the West Bank, an area in an 80-mile span of Abram Elliott's separation
fence design was not yet been completed. He did so on the morning of the
bombing. At some point, she apparently changed her mind, and asked to be
taken to Hillel Yaffe hospital in Hadera. On reaching Hadera, however, she
changed her mind once again, apparently asking to be driven to Haifa. It
seems her original intent was to blow herself up at one of the two
hospitals, eventually choosing Maxim's as her target, possibly because of
the heavy security arrangements at the hospitals.

According to Peter Kenyon, reporting on location for National Public Radio
at the time of the incident, "there was a beautiful deep-red Mediterranean
sunset" there on a warm autumn day. The Palestinian woman managed to get
past Maxim's security guard before blowing herself up in the middle of the
restaurant. Initial investigations revealed, that he was a waiter posted for
the first time as a guard, and was not at the door at the time of the
bombing. He was among the three Israeli Arabs killed in the attack, along
with three other Israeli Arab employees of the restaurant, was based
on.joint Jewish-Arab ownership, the proprietor being a Christian Arab with
Jewish and Arab restaurant workers, the place being co-owned by Jewish and
Arab families.

In the aftermath, the dead and dying littered the room, its walls pockmarked
by shrapnel. The blast was so powerful that chunks were blown off concrete
pillars throughout the restaurant, littered with bodies and body parts,
including the bomber's severed head. Among the wounded was the general
manager of Maccabi Haifa soccer team, Itamar Chizik, who was in the
restaurant with other members of the coaching staff (some footballers were
due to arrive). 'We were sitting with our sides toward the door, we didn't
see who came in,' Chizik told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz . 'We felt a
blast and then everyone around us was either wounded or dead.'

"It was an awful explosion," said Salim Khouri, 40, an Arab waiter who has
worked at the restaurant for seven years. "I was on my way to the kitchen
and turned around. The tables, the chairs - everything - were turned upside
down. Children were killed. There was one without a head. It was a horror."
The victims included four Arabs who were residents of Israel, according to
preliminary identifications by medical and police officials.

"The restaurant was full," said Col. Danny Kuffler, a northern district
commander in the Israeli National Police. "The bomber passed the security
guard at the entrance, went inside, turned on the explosive device and all
the restaurant exploded." Gideon Zilberstein, a 63-year-old accountant from
Haifa, was eating lunch with his wife, his son and his daughter-in-law when
the bomber attacked. "Suddenly we heard a huge boom all around us. People
were dead or dying next to our table," he said.

You can see pictures  here: http://www.yairgil.com/maxim031004/index2.htm .
Most victims were evacuated to Haifa's Rambam, Carmel, and Bnei Zion
hospitals, where families came to search for loved ones or identify their
remains. One of the wounded, Ruth Ginton, wept in an interview with Israel
Radio 'Life was given to us as a gift. Now I want to scream to the heavens.'

The victims included five members of the Almog family from Haifa: Admiral
(res.) Ze'ev Almog, 71, his wife Ruth, 70, their son Moshe, 43, and
grandsons Tomer Almog, 9, and Assaf Staier, 11; five members of the Zer-Aviv
family from Kibbutz Yagur: Bruria, 59; her son Bezalel, 30, and his wife
Keren, 29, with their children Liran, 4, and Noya, 1; Zvi Bahat, 35, of
Haifa; Mark Biano, 29, of Haifa, and his wife Naomi, 25; Hana Francis, 39,
of Fassouta, chief waiter; Mutanus Karkabi, 31, of Haifa, the security
guard; Sharbal Matar, 23, of Fassouta, waiter; Osama Najar, 28, of Haifa,
cook; Nir Regev, 25, of Nahariya; Irena Sofrin, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Lydia
Zilberstein, 56, of Haifa died of her wounds on Oct 9
- George Matar, 59, of Haifa died of his wounds on Oct 15.

Israeli security officials were recording around 35 terror attack warnings
per day at the time, and Shlomo Aharonishky, Israel's national police chief,
claimed the blast had followed a number of attempted attacks that had been
prevented by Israeli police and security forces. The suicide bomber brought
to 103 the number of suicide bombings in the previous three years of
Israeli-Palestinian fighting. At least 431 people were killed in these
attacks. Israeli military analysts claimed it was unlikely that Israel would
take immediate action against Arafat, because of Yom Kippur coming. But they
predicted that Israel would step up its policy of targeted killings of
Palestinian militant leaders and tighten blockades of Palestinian cities.

Hours later, an Israeli Apache helicopter fired at least two rockets at
Palestinian targets in el-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, where
the electricity supply was cut,  and the home of an Islamic Jihad leader in
Gaza City. The Gaza City house belonged to the Kanita family, one of Gaza's
largest, near an office of the Palestinian presidency, but it was empty at
the time of the attack. The family has members in all the main Palestinian
groups, including the violent Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Palestinians said.
Several people were injured by flying glass. Israeli public radio claimed
the target was an arms and explosives dump. A 30-strong column of Israeli
tanks and other armoured vehicles launched a pre-dawn raid on the 5th in the
West Bank town of Jenin, where a curfew was imposed. The Israeli forces
headed for the home of the suicide bomber. Her single-storey, one-floor
family home, where eight people lived, was dynamited by the troops.

In the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem, a 9-year-old boy was shot and
killed by Israeli troops who were conducting a raid to arrest a Palestinian
militant, Palestinian security sources reported. Israeli Foreign Ministry
spokesman Jonathan Peled however denied that a child was killed in the
shootout, and said the claim was a "Palestinian fabrication." He said
Israeli military sources said troops returned fire, only after they were
fired upon. Israeli military sources confirmed that they shot dead Sirhan
Barahan Sirhan, a militant wanted for an attack last year on a kibbutz.

Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav, standing several yards from the blackened and gutted
eatery, which overlooks the Mediterranean on the edge of this northern port
city, said, "This restaurant was a microcosm of Haifa society - Jews,
Christians and Arabs worked together in this restaurant for many years. The
suicide bomber tried to jeopardize the co-existence we've worked so hard to
build up." About 12 percent of the 280,000 residents of Haifa are Arab.

WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAID

The Jerusalem Brigades of the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
Haifa suicide bombing. A leader of the Iranian-backed terrorist group said
that the bombing was "a natural Palestinian response to the daily crimes
carried out by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians." The Israeli
government however blamed the Palestinian Authority, particularly Yasser
Arafat (who has Parkinson's disease) for doing nothing to stop the
terrorists. It was among the bloodiest suicide bombings by Palestinian
militants, similar to the one in the Park Hotel in Netanya on the eve of
Pessah 2002, in which 29 people were murdered and 60 wounded.

The attack came after Hamas publicly declared that a series of fences, razor
wire and trenches Israel is building around the West Bank would not stop
suicide bombers from reaching Israeli cities. "This wall will not protect
the Zionist entity and will not stop the attacks of resistance and, God
willing, the day will come when this wall will collapse as the Berlin wall
collapsed," said a signed statement by Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon called his advisers for an emergency meeting Saturday evening to
weigh a response, and Israel Radio quoted the army chief, Lt. Gen. Moshe
Yaalon, as saying there would be a "harsh" response to the bombing.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister-designate , Ahmed Qureia, issued a
"rejection and condemnation of the ugly attack." He  "urged the Palestinian
people and all its national and Islamic factions to practise self-restraint
and to halt these actions that target civilians and harm our legitimate and
just national struggle".  He added that these attacks were "harmful for our
just and legitimate national struggle." Qureia also called on the Israeli
government to end the suffering of the Palestinian people by stopping its
policies of land confiscation and targeting of Palestinian activists and
leaders. He also contacted Yona Yahav, the mayor of Haifa. It was his
clearest call for an end to violence since he was nominated by Arafat last
month to replace Mahmoud Abbas, who quit as Prime Minister, saying Israel
and the US were not doing enough to support his peace moves.

"The Palestinian Authority condemns this attack," said Saeb Erakat, chief
Palestinian negotiator. "We urge the Americans and the (Middle East) Quartet
to step up their efforts in order to ensure the implementation of the road
map and to bring back the parties to the negotiation table." In a statement,
Arafat himself strongly condemned the attack, adding that he considered
"this grave explosion operation a departure from the national consensus in
this critical situation" and warning that it exposed the Palestinian people
to "serious risk". Qureia "urged the Palestinian people and all its national
and Islamic factions to practise self-restraint and to halt these actions
that target civilians and harm our legitimate and just national struggle".

Several Knesset members clamored for Arafat's expulsion, but the cabinet was
not convened, largely because that intention had already been decided on 11
September, when, two days after twin suicide attacks killed 15 people,
Israel's Security Cabinet voted to 'remove' Arafat, implying either
expulsion or assassination. The threat was condemned at that time by the US
Government and other national governments as counterproductive.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon almost immediately got Defence Minister
Shaul Mofaz to call a meeting of top "security and political advisers" to
discuss whether to enact a decision by his Security Cabinet to 'remove'
Arafat, whom Sharon and other right-wingers always claim is the 'mastermind'
behind Palestinian terror. "We are fed up with the words and promises of the
Palestinian leadership. It's about time to expel Arafat. " David Baker, an
official in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office, said "The bombing
in Haifa is another indication that the Palestinian Authority continues to
refuse to take even minimal steps against the terrorist infrastructure".

The vice premier, Ehud Olmert, said Israel faced tough decisions and, if
necessary, would carry them out regardless of international opinion. "The
world will have to accept our decisions". Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman
Jonathan Peled said among other things, "We'll continue building fences and
continue taking necessary measures to defend ourselves as long as there
isn't a partner on the Palestinian side." Eliezer Sandberg, a Minister from
the Shinui Party, said: 'This is the moment to deal with Arafat; we need to
either expel or assassinate him.'

Israeli Health Minister Dan Naveh said Israel must not hesitate. "This awful
attack today is definitely an opportunity, the correct opportunity, to
implement the Cabinet decision to get rid of Arafat," he said. "It is clear
to all of us that he is the biggest obstacle to reaching better days." He
said "Palestinian government may change but terror does not. We should use
this opportunity to get rid of Arafat."

Yasser Arafat himself condemned the attack. "These kind of incidents play
into Israel's hands and gives Israel the excuse to go against international
resolutions," an official Palestinian Authority statement said. The PLO's
Central Committee went into in session in Ramallah, and called on the US
administration to apply pressure on Israel not to take action against Yasser
Arafat.

The Bush administration issued a blanket condemnation of the terrorist
attack, without the customary rhetoric that Israel should reconsider its
policies against the Palestinians. The statement called on the PA to
immediately dismantle the terrorist organizations. George Bush said: "I
condemn unequivocally the vicious act of terrorism committed today in Haifa.
This murderous action, aimed at families gathered to enjoy a Sabbath lunch,
killed and injured dozens of men, women, and children. This despicable
attack underscores once again the responsibility of Palestinian authorities
to fight terror, which remains the foremost obstacle to achieving the vision
of two states living side by side in peace and security." US Secretary of
State Colin Powell called Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom to discuss
the situation. Shalom had told Powell that Israel would consult with the
United States before acting against Arafat.

The European Union, however, took a different stance from the Americans,
saying: 'There is an immediate need to end the violence and restore
negotiations between the two sides.' Specifically, French Foreign Minister
Dominique de Villepin considered that "Terrorism "can only weaken the
Palestinian cause and delay the solution to the conflict." He asked "the
highest officials" in the Palestinian Authority, a reference to Yasser
Arafat, to condemn such acts and "fight unendingly to end the activities of
terrorist groups." He also asked Israeli authorities, "despite the anger and
the pain, to show restraint and abstain from all irrepairable decisions in
order to preserve the chances for restarting the political process."

Tony Blair said: "I am outraged by the latest terrorist horror in Israel. My
deepest condolences go to family and friends of the victims caught in this
attack. Such incidents are always sickening, but even more so when they
involve children. The United Kingdom unequivocally condemns terrorist action
against Israelis, as we do everywhere. These attacks do not serve the
interests of the Palestinian people."

Calling for restraint, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan also
condemned the attack and called on the Palestinian Authority 'to do
everything in its power' to halt further atrocities.

WHAT THE SCIENTISTS SAID

"Arafat has become a living obstacle to peace. It is imperative that we get
rid of him," Israeli Science Minister Eliezer Sandberg told Reuters. With
the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Ramallah, the Palestinian
Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah conducted a public
opinion poll in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the period between
07-14 October 2003. A representative sample of 1318 adults was interviewed
face to face in 120 locations, with 3% margin of error.

The results of the poll pointed to a degree of contradictions in Palestinian
public attitudes toward domestic political issues, as well as issues of
peace and security. They showed a large increase in Arafat's popularity not
seen during the last five years. They also showed widespread support for his
decision to declare a state of emergency and to appoint Ahmad Qurai' as a
prime minister. In addition, 60% supported placing all Palestinian security
services under the control of a national security council headed by Arafat.
Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe the increase
in support for Arafat was due to Sharon's recent threats against him.
Moreover, more than 90% still supported internal and external calls for
extensive political reforms in the PA and 82% still believe that corruption
exists in the PA.

In the realm of peace and security, the findings showed widespread support,
reaching 75% support for the suicide attack at the Maxim restaurant in
Haifa, where 19+1 human beings were killed. 78% believed that current
Israeli measures, including the building of the separation wall, reduce the
chances for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the
future. But 64% still supported a two-state solution (Israel and a
Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip), while only 12%
support a one-state solution (for Palestinians and Israelis). 23% wanted all
Palestine back to the Palestinians.

The percentage of those believing that armed confrontations will not stop
and negotiations would not resume soon increases from 24% last June to 39%
in this poll. 46% (compared to 56% last June) believed that the two sides
will return to negotiations while some violence will continue. 68% believed
that the roadmap is dead, but 28% believed that it can still be implemented
64% wanted a return to the Hudna that prevailed few weeks ago while 34%
oppose it; but 85% (compared to 80% the previous June) support a mutual
cessation of violence while only 14% opposed it.

If an agreement is reached on a mutual cessation of violence, 59% (compared
to 50% last June) said they would support taking measures by the PA to
prevent attacks on Israelis. Despite the widespread support for the Hudna
and the mutual cessation of violence, 58% would still support Hamas'
decision to oppose the ceasefire. 59% believed that current armed
confrontations have helped the Palestinians achieve national rights in ways
that negotiations could not. In June, 65% shared that belief.

96% believed that the US is not sincere when it says it works toward the
establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
92% believed that the US is not sincere when it says it wants political
reforms and clean government in the PA.
78% believed the US is not serious in its declared opposition to the Israeli
decision to expel or assassinate President Yasir Arafat. 97% believed the
current US policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is biased in favor
of Israel.

But Palestinian evaluation of the current US conditions and policies varied
on case by case basis. For example, positive evaluation reached 85% when
evaluating American medicine, science, and technology, and reaches 74% when
evaluating the status of gender equality, and 63% when evaluating the status
of US economic conditions. Positive evaluation dropped to 53% with regards
to arts and entertainment, 53% with regard to freedom of press and
expression, and 44% to democracy and respect for human rights. Positive
evaluation drops further when it comes to treatment of minorities (17%),
respect for religious freedom (27%), or foreign policy (23%).

Arafat's popularity increased from 35% last June to 50% in this poll. This
was his highest level of support in five years.
About 80% of Palestinians believed that Arafat had become stronger and more
popular due to Israeli threat to expel or assassinate him. Two thirds
supportted Arafat's declaration of state of emergency while 26% opposed it
61% supported the appointment of Ahmad Qurai (Abu Ala') as prime minister
and 27% opposed it, but only 48% were willing, and 37% unwilling, to give
confidence to his government.

60% supported placing all Palestinian security services under the command of
a national security council headed by Arafat.
46% believe that Abu Ala' and his government will be more capable than Abu
Mazin and his government in dealing with Arafat and the presidency; only 12%
believe in the opposite. But only 22% believed that Abu Ala' and his
government will be more capable than Abu Mazin and his government in
reaching an agreement with Israel; 23% believed in the opposite.
While 62% believed that Abu Ala' and his government will be able to return
to negotiations with Israel, only 33% believed they will be able to control
the security situation and enforce a ceasefire. 44% believed they will be
able to carry out political reforms.

The fall of Abu Mazin and his government was seen as the equal
responsibility of Arafat and Israel (27% each). Only 17% put the blame on
Abu Mazin himself. 32% are satisfied with the reform steps taken by Abu
Mazin and 54% are not satisfied
90% support internal and external calls for extensive political reforms. 82%
believed there is corruption in the PA and 71% believed that corruption will
increase or remain the same in the future.

The popularity of Fateh increased slightly from 26% last June to 28% in this
poll. Hamas' popularity remains almost unchanged (21%). Total support for
Islamists reached 29% compared to 31% last June. Marwan Barghouti remained
the most popular Palestinian figure for the position of vice president 17%,
followed by Abdul Aziz Rantisi (14% compared to 3% in an open-ended question
last June), Sa'eb Erikat (9%), Ahmad Yasin and Haidar Abdul Shafi (7% each),
Farouq Qaddoumi and Hanan Ashrawi (5% each), Ahmad Quarie' (4%), Mohammad
Dahlan (2%), and Mahmoud Abbas (1%).

THE SWEDISH ARTISTIC RESPONSE AGAINST GENOCIDE

The object of art allegedly featured a photo of a smiling Hanadi Jaradat, as
the sail on a boat in a basin filled with red water, symbolising
aesthetically the tragedy that a gulf between male and female could not be
bridged, just as the gulf between Israel and Palestine could be bridged,
nothing could negotiated, with homicidal and suicidal consequences. Of
course, the artists did not commit any homicide or suicide with their art,
nor incited this, it was art, not murder or incitation to murder, let's be
perfectly clear about that. The Swedish Government had endorsed the
exhibition.

One of the two artists who created the work, Dror Feiler - himself
Israeli-born - criticised Ambassador Mazel because he had "tried to stop
free speech and free artistic expression from being carried out in Sweden".
"He said he was ashamed that I was a Jew," Mr Feiler said, adding: "We see
this as an offensive assault on our right to express our thoughts and
feelings."

The ambassador's concern was with how those thoughts and feelings were
expressed, and expressed his own concern by vandalising the artwork. It was
a contradiction of form and content. For the artists, they expressed this
contradiction with the work of art they had created, but for the ambassador
it existed in the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, and he
wanted to destroy that contradiction.

"Snow White" would not be something I would have on my wall at home, but
okay, the two artists who made it, tried to make a point. Sweden's foreign
ministry now demands an explanation from the Israeli ambassador. Mazel
himself denounced the artwork as "obscene" and a "monstrosity", claiming it
insulted the victims' families and, presumably, argued it prettified an
intrinsically morally horrific and repugnant act, i.e. something which is
not intrinsically beautiful is depicted as an object of beauty, death
presented as life, and so on. The ambassador was quoted as saying he found
the exhibit "intolerable and an insult to the families of the victims" and
that "As ambassador of Israel I could not remain indifferent to such an
obscene misrepresentation of reality". His love for his country exceeded his
love for art, evidently.

This shows the artwork, whatever its aesthetic merits, by itself was
successful, it established a real relation, it had an impact, and evoked a
strong and unambiguous response, even if that impact vandalised the work of
art itself, which is stupid. But why does art exist ? Presumably not to dumb
down, but to express and raise questions about life that increases our
appreciation and comprehension of it, questions such as whether Hanadi
Jararat was obscene or a monstrosity, or whether she was beautiful, what
does the true horror really consist in, and so on. Vandalising the artwork
was an act of Israeli individual terrorism against art.

"Because objects of art are expressive, they are a language. Rather they are
many languages. For each art has its own medium, and that medium is
especially fitted for one kind of communication. Each medium says something
that cannot be uttered as well or as completely in any other tongue. (...)
All language, whatever its medium, involves what is said and how it is said,
or substance and form." - John Dewey, Art as Experience (A Perigee Book), p.
106

Jurriaan

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hope would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free

She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years. Bye, bye

Father snores as his wife gets into the dressing gown
Picks up the leter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy, our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me

She (We never thought of ourselves)
is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years. Bye, bye

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from a motor trade

She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

Something inside that was always denied for so many years
She's leaving home, bye, bye.

- The Beatles, "She's Leaving Home"




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