Intro:  One bar of E-

Chords: E-  C+  G+  D+​

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Early mornings drinking coffee on the roof
listening to Fairuz
roosters crowing smells of bakers baking bread
imagining guns overhead
In the evenings, dancing through the night
celebrating life

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Chorus:

Generations lived and died here
dreaming homeland
when I met you oh you loved me
though a stranger in a strange land

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All these children know their fate is in the hands
of politicians' armies
know the names of all the cities
that their families left behind

 

Chorus:

Generations live and die here

growing older
these blue buildings there is no relief there is no work

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(instrumental break)

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Where I come from
there is no war, there are no massacres
there are no air raids,
no one bombing, I don't understand how this exists

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Chorus:

how can you do it
how can it be
how can you get through every day like this
waiting for something
wait for nothing
wait for the whole wide world to give a shit

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So you ask me where I come from
can I take you there?
take you to some dream of future
take you from this bloodstained earth

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Chorus:

I was there for, just one summer
you've been there for more than 60 years
and you stay there
growing older, growing older

Early mornings drinking coffee on the roof
listening to Fairuz