Helicopters Lyrics - Maroon - Barenaked Ladies

This is where the helicopters came to take me away 

This is where the children used to play 

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 

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 

And I'll be leaving soon 

I'll be leaving soon 

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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 

And I'll be leaving soon 

I'll be leaving soon 

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 

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 pointing while at me they point a finger 

A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer 

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So I'll be leaving soon 

I'll be leaving soon 

I'll be leaving soon 

I'll be leaving soon