Roger Waters – Leaving Beirut (Guitar)

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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?