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Leaving Beirut by Roger Waters

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Are these the people that we should bomb
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Are we so sure they mean us harm
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Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime
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Is this a mountain that we really want to climb
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The road is hard, hard and long
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Put down that two by four
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This man would never turn you from his door
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Oh George! Oh George!
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That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small

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When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart,
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Fulfilled my summer dream she handed me the keys to the car
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We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze
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Got bust in Antibes by the cops and fleeced in Naples by the wops
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But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes
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Our dads had helped them win the war
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When we all knew what we were fighting for
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But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge
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The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge

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Is gentleness too much for us
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Should gentleness be filed along with empathy
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We feel for someone else's child
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Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong
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Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise
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America, America, please hear us when we call
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You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle
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You got Atticus Finch, you got Jane Russell
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You got freedom of speech, you got great beaches,
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Wildernesses and malls
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Don't let the might, the Christian right,
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Fuck it all up for you and the rest of the world
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Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you
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Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules
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History's not written by the vanquished or the damned
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Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam
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In 1961 they took this child into their home
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I wonder what became of them in the cauldron that was Lebanon
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If I could find them now, could I make amends?
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How does the story end?

This is one of my favourite songs by Roger Waters and is incredible live. Any feedback,

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