Come back the country I love

Come back and put

Food on my table

Come back and bring me

Peace & Love

No one is excluded

and I belong here again

Not trembling over words

Or the bang at the door

It is you who don’t belong here

anymore  

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This is not happening

This you can’t see

The prison cells are filling

Whilst you digest the lies on TV

This is not happening

This you can’t see

You play deaf dumb and blind

Until you see

This is happening

This you can see

Your brother your mother your father

Taken away

Live on TV

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Lay your thick white blanket on our land

Cover up the corruption

The beggars scavenging for food

Lay your thick white blanket on our land

It freezes the lies in mid-air

Gives the children a smile

Freezes the parents’ tears

Let the thick white blanket stay on this earth

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The snow is not to blame

In fact, it covers it up

All that I see is kindness

On the white covered ground

The snow is not to blame

It offers a rest bite

from worry,

as the crystals float past

my window  

an endless letting

       go

an endless letting

             go

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I’m staring out of the coffee shop window

In a strange land

A pang in my stomach

Why didn’t I take anyone with me

No one to meet

From when I was 18

Right through to my 30’s and beyond

Until 40’s 50’s I had a new one

But he withered and died

Why didn’t I take them with me

I feel a pang inside

But each carried me

To where I am now…

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The knock at the door will come,

As night follows night.

They come at this time you know  

When justice is out of sight

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