Helicopters
En fantastisk, og evig aktuel, tekst fra Barenaked Ladies album Maroon. Enjoy.
Helicopters
This is where the helicopters came to take me away
This is where the children used to play
This is only half a mile away from the attack
This is where my life changed in a day
And then it changed back
Buried in the din of rotor noise and close explosions
I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions
This is where the allies bombed the school,
They say by mistake
Here nobody takes me for a fool, just for a fake
Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting
I hurry back to my guitar while theyre commiserating
And Ill be leaving soon
Ill be leaving soon
Just as soon as we were on the ground
We were back in the jet
Just another three day foreign tour wed never forget
Its hard to sympathize with all this devastation
Hopping round from site to site like tourists on vacation
And Ill be leaving soon
Ill be leaving soon
I cant help anyone cause everyones so cold
Everyones so skeptical of everything theyre told
And even I get sick of needing to be sold
Though its only half a month away, the medias gone
An entertaining scandel broke today, but I cant move on
Im haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it
Cant even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?
Everybodys laughing, while at me they point a finger
A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer
So Ill be leaving soon
