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UB40

The Road

Release date: 9th June 2008

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About This Track

"The Road" is a track by UB40, from the album TwentyFourSeven, released 9th June 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

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UB40

UB40

Lyrics

The Road

The roadmap to freedom

Translates as a fake

Handshakes and mistakes

Turned into heartaches

When losers have lost

All their give and their take

And check a mistake turn to heartache

Chorus:

Five hundred thousand forced to flee

A million square miles of emergency

Another two million will go hungry

When there's no guarantee for the refugee

The road from Darfur

Runs red with denial

Waterless mile

After waterless mile

Barefooted fear

Kicks the dust of exile

Waterless mile

After waterless mile

Chorus:

Five hundred thousand forced to flee

A million square miles of emergency

Another two million will go hungry

When there's no guarantee for the refugee

The road out of Gaza

As plagued with lost souls

Buried in holes

By the border patrols

What claims we've give them

They cannot control

Drown in the holes

In their land of lost souls

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Track details

From TwentyFourSeven

2008
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TwentyFourSeven
TwentyFourSeven
UB40
4th May 2008
Release year
2008
  1. —I'll Be Back
  2. —Instant Radical Change of Perception
  3. —Lost and Found
  4. —Middle of the Night
  5. —The Road
  6. —Rainbow Nation
  7. —Dance Until the Morning Light
  8. —Once Around
  9. —End of War
  10. —Oh America
  11. —I Shot the Sheriff
  12. —It’s All in the Game
  13. —Securing the Peace
  14. —I'll Be There
  15. —This Is How It Is
  16. —Slow Down
  17. —Here We Go Again

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