Amazing! You’ve expressed some of the complexity of the cycle of revenge and captured the conviction that “two families at a time” can begin to develop the empathetic connections necessary to begin what could become a nationwide process of reconciliation.
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Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
A song of reconciliation for families who’ve lost children on both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
Words & Music by Steve Siler
Better the pains of peace than the agonies of war
Better to understand than to repeat what’s gone before
To live together in this land is our common fate
If we don’t raise our voices now then who will stop the hate
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
Hello to peace for every daughter, every son
As we’ve shared the pain let’s share the dream
‘til the day of peace has come
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
How many lives must end?
How much suffering is enough?
Where is the victory when the streets run red with blood?
If we can see humanity and hear each other’s fears
A dialogue of hope will take the place of all these tears
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
Hello to peace for all our daughters, all our sons
As we’ve shared the pain let’s share the dream
‘til the day of peace has come
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
Person to person across these battle lines
Listening will bridge the distance two families at a time
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
Hello to peace for all our daughters, all our sons
As we’ve shared the pain let’s share the dream
‘til the day of peace has come
As we’ve shared the pain let’s share the dream
and the will to carry on
Hello Shalom Hello Salaam
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Rick Altizer
Rick Altizer
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Singer, engineer, and all instruments
Albums / Songs Involved With:
HELLO SHALOM HELLO SALAAM SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Also songwriter - Never Shake His Hand
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http://rickaltizer.com/Steve Siler
Steve Siler
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Founder, Director, & Producer / Songwriter / Keys / Vocalist
Albums / Songs Involved With:
AFTER THE STORM Songwriter / Where is the Ground, Not too Far From Here, Twenty Three BEFORE WE SAID HELLO Songwriter BROKEN TO BLESS Songwriter & Vocals / Not too Far from Here, Innocent Child, Broken to Bless, Renee is Fourteen, Child of Mine, Beatitudes, Listening, Wounded Angel, Nothing is in Vain, Walking Each Other Home, The Apology CELEBRATION TABLE Songwriter & Vocals / Celebration Table, Come Meet Me Here, In Christ, I've Got This, No Power Over Me, Rock Bottom Soon, Say Anything, Shame Died These Things, A Voiceless Cry, You are Not Alone CHAOS OF THE HEART Songwriter / Chaos of the Heart, How Could You, Every Single Tear, Keep Breathing, Twenty Three CHILD OF GOD Songwriter CROOKED ROAD Songwriter DAYS OF HOPE Songwriter DIGNITY Songwriter / Dignity, We've Never Done This Dance Before, Returning the Favor, Love Will Have to Do It, In the Middle of the Mess, Twenty Three, You Should Hear Him Sing, Do You Know I Love You, Precious Lord Take My Hand, I'm Gonna Lose You DRINK DEEP No!, Don't Feel Much like Prayer Today, Drink Deep, After the Crowds are Gone, No Such Thing as Normal, Differently, Every Single Tear, Good, Twenty Three, Ambush, Today, Gone Ahead, Death Has Been Conquered FIFTY YEARS FROM NOW Songwriter / Fifty Years From Now, I Don't Know You Anymore, Love as I Have Been Loved, Before God, What God Has Joined Together GOD CAN USE A BROKEN HEART Songwriter HEROES UNSUNG Songwriter & Piano IN ALL THINGS Songwriter I PROMISE TO BE WITH YOU TODAY Songwriter IT DOESN’T FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR Songwriter LIFE OF FAITH Songwriter LOOK INTO MY EYES Songwriter MERCY GREAT ENOUGH Songwriter / The Days Still Yet to Come, Hope Will Rise Again, I Lay it Down, I Wasn't There, Listen with Love, Stain Upon My Heart, We Forgive You, What Now?, You'll Never Call Me Daddy, Your Life Has Made a Difference MORE BEAUTIFUL Songwriter / More Beautiful, Wildest Ride on Earth MORE THAN A SURVIVOR Songwriter MUSIC FOR THE LITLE SOUL Songwriter THE NEXT RIGHT THING Songwriter NO POWER OVER ME Songwriter & Vocalist ROCK BOTTOM SOON Songwriter & Vocalist SET SAIL Songwriter SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Songwriter / Traitor, Somebody's Daughter, All of Me, Into the Light, Is It Me?, I Commit My Eyes, Every Man's Battle /also / Keyboards - Is It Me? TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE Songwriter / The Cost, You Love Me, In the image of God, Just the Way that I Am, No One Can Love Me like You Do TWENTY THREE Songwriter UNDER MY SKIN Songwriter WHERE IS MY FAITH Songwriter WHOLE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD Songwriter / Whole in the Sight of God WRONG CONVERSATIONS Songwriter