War Child

I need city lights

Defence and weaponry

No way of knowing

My life expectancy

I learn resistance

Like I learn to see

A living witness

A lonely refugee I'm a war child

I'm a war baby

And that's the difference

Between you and me

I'm a war child

My occupation

Is being occupied

I stop at the corner

To be identified

Across the border

They pretend victory

I'm playing in the rubble

And dream a destiny

I'm a war child

I'm a war baby

And that's the difference

Between you and me

I'm a war child

You weren't discovered by Khmer Rouge

We hear of "the troubles" on the nightly news

PLO lovers courting after the curfew

Your father and brother have the West Bank blues