I’d Rather Be Dancing (Rachel Corrie’s Song). By Jim Page

The words of this song by Jim Page are based on letters that Rachel Corrie wrote home to her parents, before she was crushed to death in March 2003 by an Israeli military bulldozer, which Rachel was trying to prevent demolishing the home of a Palestinian doctor. SEE () LYRICS: you know I was always the one I could never stand idly by and watch while the bullies beat up on the weaker ones I had to do something to try and I never gave up on people that we could be better somehow morality’s compass, you gave it to me I still follow it now well, I couldn’t stop thinking about it I couldn’t get it out of my mind the pictures, the stories, the plight of the people in occupied Palestine how my government makes me complicit with the political aid that they send so I packed up my bags and I headed to Rafa to work with the ISM and I’d rather be dancing, dancing and falling in love but if I just ca