helicopters þarký sözü

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 they´re commiserating

and i´ll be leaving soon
i´ll be leaving soon

just as soon as we were on the ground
we were back in the jet
just another three day foreign tour we´d never forget
it´s hard to sympathize with all this devastation
hopping ´round from site to site like tourists on vacation

and i´ll be leaving soon
i´ll be leaving soon

i can´t help anyone cause everyone´s so cold
everyone´s so skeptical of everything they´re told
and even i get sick of needing to be sold

though it´s only half a month away, the media´s gone
an entertaining scandel broke today, but i can´t move on
i´m haunted by a story and i do my best to tell it
can´t even give this stuff away, why would i sell it?
everybody´s laughing, while at me they point a finger
a world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer

so i´ll be leaving soon
i´ll be leaving soon
i´ll be leaving soon
i´ll be leaving soon