Shot-Best-Of.mp3
Shot-Best-Of.mp4
Shot.mp3
Shot.mp4
Shot-intro.mp3
[Intro]
Shot!
(What’s the matter with you people)
Have you forgot?
(We’re under the same steeple)
[Verse 1]
Playing with your friend
When they meet their end
This is no way to be young
(Dirge done… requiem sung)
[Bridge]
Shot!
(What’s the matter with you people)
Have you forgot?
(We’re under the same steeple)
[Chorus]
God! (Of Moses)
God! (Of Jesus)
God! (Of Muhammad)
Have you all gone mad?
[Bridge]
Tragically sad
[Verse 2]
What once was a friend
Has met their tragic end
Man, do you understand…
(The message YOU send)
[Bridge]
Shot!
(What’s the matter with you people)
Have you forgot?
(We’re under the same steeple)
[Chorus]
God! (Of Moses)
God! (Of Jesus)
God! (Of Muhammad)
Have you all gone mad?
[Outro]
Tragically sad
ABOUT THE SONG
Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe in one God. They share a common ancestor in Abraham.
“Shot” captures the stark, raw reality of children in Gaza, like Ayham and Adam, whose childhoods are shattered by bullets and bombs while they are simply playing with friends. The song begins with the haunting image of children playing, only to witness the death of their friends in an instant, emphasizing the unnatural cruelty of children growing up surrounded by violence and death, robbed of safety, innocence, and the right to simply be young.
The repeated “Shot!” in the bridge is a direct confrontation, demanding accountability: “What’s the matter with you people?” It challenges a world that turns away, including those claiming faith under the “same steeple.” It confronts religious hypocrisy among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, invoking “God of Moses, God of Jesus, God of Muhammad” to ask if we have all gone mad, allowing genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of politics, nationalism, or false claims of security.
The guitar solo and instrumental sections are a moment of collective grief, representing the silence of the world punctuated by the piercing pain of each new child’s death, a requiem for the young lives lost in Gaza.
The second verse, “What once was a friend / Has met their tragic end,” is a personal reflection on the bonds shattered by violence, calling on listeners to understand the message that these deaths send: a world tolerating the systematic murder of children under siege is a world that has lost its moral compass.
The song’s “Tragically sad” outro leaves the listener in a space of reflection and discomfort, forcing us to sit with the reality of war crimes and collective punishment inflicted upon children and families in Gaza, demanding we not look away.
“Shot” is a condemnation of the systematic, deliberate violence occurring in Gaza under Netanyahu and Trump’s genocidal policies, backed by U.S. complicity, and a cry for accountability, empathy, and a return to shared humanity across all faiths and nations.
Updates from Gaza: Ahmed Alkhateeb Speaks
July 7, 2025
Ahmed Alkhateeb reports:
“In a new example of this ongoing crime, they are now threatening us with displacement and eviction from our areas to locations near the beach, where there is no clean water or basic necessities for life—let alone enough space to accommodate all who will be forced to leave. Imagine, they want about 500,000 people to live near the beach now. This is madness and a profound injustice.”
July 9, 2025
Ahmed shared that his children, Ayham and Adam, were shot at while playing with their friends near their tent. Bullets struck a nearby car, narrowly missing them. The children ran back, shaking and pale with fear, traumatized by yet another moment of a childhood stolen by war. Ahmed thanked God they are still alive. Tragically, the friends they were playing with were shot, and we are awaiting an update on their condition.
This is yet another horrifying example of the war crimes being committed with impunity by Israel, backed by the United States. No child should live in fear of being shot while playing. No parent should have to watch their children’s innocence shattered by bullets and bombs. This is the daily reality under siege in Gaza, where systematic targeting and terrorizing of civilians, including children, is not collateral damage—it is the predictable outcome of policies rooted in collective punishment and ethnic cleansing. The world cannot look away or remain silent while these crimes continue.
July 10, 2025
Ahmed shared devastating news:
“Yesterday, my children were shot at, and today, my nephew was murdered.
Paradise has received Abu Muhammad.
The martyrdom of my nephew, Khaled Abu Hamra, who now joins his brother, the martyr Muhammad.
We belong to Allah, and to Him we shall return.”
This is the brutal reality families in Gaza are enduring each day under occupation and siege. It is a call for all who witness these crimes to speak out and demand accountability before more innocent lives are lost.
July 10, 2025
Ahmed said:
Evangelical Christianity and Israel
If you’re curious about the driving force behind US support for Israel, it’s ironically rooted in Evangelical Christianity. Many Evangelical Christians believe they can hasten the “second coming of Christ” by bringing about the apocalypse. According to their interpretation of the Bible, this involves Israel reclaiming Jerusalem, Jesus returning, and ultimately eliminating all Jews. For numerous “Christian Zionists,” especially influential evangelists aligned with the Republican Party, support for Israel is less about political strategy and more about its supposed role in biblical prophecy. In this worldview, war is not something to be avoided but embraced as a divine necessity—an inevitable and even celebratory step toward Jesus’ rule from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The fate of Jews and Palestinians is, to put it mildly, seen as collateral damage.
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