Leaving Beirut
Roger Waters
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Are these the people that we should bomb

Are we so sure they mean us harm

Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime

Is this a mountain that we really want to climb

The road is hard, hard and long

Put down that two by four

This man would never turn you from his door

Oh George! Oh George!

That Texas education must have ed you up when you were very small


When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart,

Fulfilled my summer dream she handed me the keys to the car

We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze

Got bust in Antibes by the cops and fleeced in Naples by the wops

But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes

Our dads had helped them win the war

When we all knew what we were fighting for

But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge

The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel s last refuge


Is gentleness too much for us

Should gentleness be filed along with empathy

We feel for someone else s child

Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong

Someone else s child dies and equities in defence rise

America, America, please hear us when we call

You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle

You got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell

You got freedom of speech, you got great beaches,

Wildernesses and malls

Don t let the might, the Christian right,

it all up for you and the rest of the world


Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you

Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules

History s not written by the vanquished or the damned

Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam

In 1961 they took this child into their home

I wonder what became of them in the cauldron that was Lebanon

If I could find them now, could I make amends?

How does the story end?


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