Electric Light Orchestra – Kuiama (Guitar)

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My, my Kuiama, she came in the morning

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She smiled but the tears on her little face

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Showed the pain that had been in that far-off place

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So sad, treated so bad

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My, my Kuiama, don't break your heart tryin'

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To say how your ma and your pa passed away

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And they left you to wander the ruin and decay

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Real mean, that bullet machine

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See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles

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Is a long, long way and you're here today

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And you won't go back so you might say

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"Hello, how do you do?"

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Kuia, stop your cryin', there's no bombs a-fallin'

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No horsemen in the night a-ridin'

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Through your dreams and tearing at your life

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Baby, goodnight

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No more silver rain will hit your ground

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And no more guns will sound

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No more life be drowned

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No more trenches where the soldiers lie

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And no more people die

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Beneath that big black sky

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Wake up, Kuiama, I got somethin' to tell you

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It's just that I mean, well, that is to say

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That I'm trying to explain but I'll start again

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For you, I must be true

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Kuia, in this country, they got rules with no reason

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They teach you to kill and they send you away

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With your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay

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So cool, that no mercy tool

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Kuia, please believe me, I just couldn't help myself

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I wanted to run but they gave me a gun

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And they told me the duty I owed to my fatherland

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I made my stand

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Kuia, I just shot them, I just blew their heads open

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And I heard them scream in their agony

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Kuiama, she waits there for me

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True blue, you saw it through