Migration Song

from The Entertainment Paradox by Halfblind Henry

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Migration Song

I know exactly what you came here for
You can have my pity but nothing more
You run from persecution, war and disease
I´ll write a charity cheque to keep things at ease

You left your home where you cannot exist
You made it to the camp - you are truely blessed
Made it through the desert and across the sea
You´re lining up at the border - should it bother me?

You ask for justice, you ask for peace
You´re like a captive in hopes of release
It goes by unnoticed if you live or die
it almost breaks my heart to pass you by

Beware who you trust to change your luck
You might suffocate in the back of a truck
You don´t know what you´ll get but you pay in advance
You face the choice and you take a chance
I engage in welfare, I engage in your fate
How many of you are there? Help me calculate
It´s a special game of give and take
All the same re-election´s at stake
You pay your part, I own the sum
I own the change you hope will come
I own the road, you pay by the mile
Everything´s arranged in colonial style
I own your history and the past lives on
I own the rescources you depend upon
I own the rights to dig your soil
I pay the troops in a war for oil
while rebels fight for a people ignored
for the sake of a slogan or for God´s reward
for deprived civilians behind the lines
for the souls of children that stepped on mines
They fight until they don´t know what they´re fighting for
and they´ll keep on fighting
because I own the war

I mind my business, hope you don´t mind
This is not the time for acting kind
What keeps me going is what keeps you poor
Still you got hopes for the future, what is it that makes you sure?

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from The Entertainment Paradox, released April 23, 2023
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music and lyrics by Halfblind Henry
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Kai-Uwe Kalka - electric double bass
Wolfgang Fritsch - violin
Halfblind Henry - vocal, guitars, virtual instruments

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