Helicopters

[00:00.66] This is where the helicopters came to take me away
[00:07.85] This is where the children used to play
[00:14.76] This is only half a mile away from the attack
[00:22.32] This is where my life changed in a day,
[00:26.35] And then it changed back
[00:28.83] Buried in the din of rotor noise and close explosions
[00:36.32] I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions
[00:43.84] This is where the allies bombed the school,
[00:47.80] They say by mistake
[00:50.90] Here nobody takes me for a fool, just for a fake
[00:57.61] Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting
[01:05.22] I hurry back to my guitar while they're commiserating
[01:12.53] And I'll be leaving soon
[01:19.69] I'll be leaving soon
[01:34.58] Just as soon as we were on the ground
[01:38.47] We were back in the jet
[01:41.65] Just another three-day foreign tour we'd never forget
[01:48.60] It's hard to sympathize with all this devastation
[01:55.83] Hopping round from site to site like tourists on vacation
[02:03.14] And I'll be leaving soon
[02:09.67] I'll be leaving soon
[02:17.70] I can't help anyone 'cause everyone's so cold
[02:24.88] Everyone's so skeptical of everything they're told
[02:31.80] And even I get sick of needing to be sold
[02:39.39] Though it's only half a month away, the media's gone
[02:46.46] An entertaining scandal broke today, but I can't move on
[02:53.54] I'm haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it
[03:00.99] Can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?
[03:08.09] Everybody's pointing while at me they point a finger
[03:14.83] A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer
[03:22.20] So I'll be leaving soon
[03:29.26] I'll be leaving soon
[03:36.59] I'll be leaving soon
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