Kuiama Lyrics - Electric Light Orchestra

My, my Kuiama, she came in the morning 

She smiled but the tears on her little face 

Showed the pain that had been in that far off place 

So sad, treated so bad 

My, my Kuiama, don't break your heart tryin' 

To say how your Ma and your Pa passed away 

And they left you to wander in the ruin and decay 

Real mean, that bullet machine 

See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles 

Is a long, long way and you're here today 

And you won't go back so you might say 

"Hello, how do you do?" 

Kuia stop your cryin', there's no bombs a fallin' 

No horsemen in the night are ridin' 

Through your dreams and tearing at your life 

Baby goodnight 

No more silver rain will hit your ground 

And no more guns will sound 

No more life be drowned 

No more trenches where the soldiers lie 

And no more people die 

Beneath that big black sky 

Wake up Kuiama, I got somethin' to tell you 

It's just that I mean, well that is to say 

That I'm trying to explain but I'll start again 

For you, I must be true 

Kuia in this country, they got rules with no reason 

They teach you to kill and they send you away 

With your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay 

So cool, that no mercy tool 

Kuia please believe me, I just couldn't help myself 

I wanted to run but they gave me a gun 

And they told me the duty I owed to my fatherland 

I made my stand 

Kuia I just shot them, I just blew their heads open 

And I heard them scream in their agony 

Kuiama she waits there for me 

True blue, you saw it through