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no-no boy - boat people lyrics

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boat people lyrics
forty years ago
the doctor left on a boat
never seen the snow
or held it in his hand
sail until you see
dry land

i can’t get off the news
i can’t get off the floor
the good folks go inside
when we need ’em most

what do prayers do
behind locked doors?

tuan went back to rebuild
only to watch saigon fall
now he climbs up mont royal
he makes a life in montreal
donated winter coat
and barbie dolls

i wrap myself in books
they’re talkin’ ’bout this man
i linger on bell hooks
she helps me to understand
some of this ain’t new
no, man
fourteen hours by car
cargo trucks and cabs
just to shake the cops
mom had to stay back
chinese safehouse and
covered tracks

eighteen metres long
two hundred bodies full
a simple compass and a map
from a kid’s geography book
forget ferdinand
or captain f+ckin’ cook

bodies bobbin’ in
a rough south china sea
ran across a thai
pirate ship, scavenging
ripped the doctor from his kids
bleeding

hours under gun
then tossed into the water
swam back to his son
held tight to his daughter
driftin’ through the night
as the daylight broke
a mountain in the dawn
off the malaysian coast
sweet pulau bidong
never cried so hard
or so long

i can’t get off the news
i can’t get off my phone
my mother came here too
forty years ago
if you see somebody’s cold
give ’em a coat

- no no boy lyrics

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