Helicopters

[Intro]

This is where the helicopters came to take me away

This is where the children used to play

[Verse 1]

This is only half a mile away from the attack

This is where my life changed in a day, and then it changed back

Buried in the din of rotor noise and close explosions

I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions

[Verse 2]

This is where the allies bombed the school, they say by mistake

Here nobody takes me for a fool, just for a fake

Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting

I hurry back to my guitar while they're commiserating

[Chorus]

And I'll be leaving soon

I'll be leaving soon

[Verse 3]

Just as soon as we were on the ground we were back in the jet

Just another three-day foreign tour we'd never forget

It's hard to sympathize with all this devastation

Hopping 'round from site to site like tourists on vacation

[Chorus]

And I'll be leaving soon

I'll be leaving soon

[Bridge]

I can't help anyone 'cause everyone's so cold

Everyone's so skeptical of everything they're told

And even I get sick of needing to be sold

[Verse 4]

Though it's only half a month away, the media's gone

An entertaining scandal broke today, but I can't move on

I'm haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it

Can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?

Everybody's laughing, while at me they point a finger

A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer

[Chorus]

So I'll be leaving soon

I'll be leaving soon

I'll be leaving soon

I'll be leaving soon