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Moazzam
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David Rovics
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What it's like to lose most everything
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He was only six, just a few years from the pram
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When he discovered all the pain that life could bring
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His mother died so young, maybe that's where it began
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But when he grew up he'd travel far and wide
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He went off to Bosnia and Afghanistan
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For Moazzam there was no "other side"
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When the US war began, he was taken in a raid
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Held for a year in a windowless cell
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He heard the men around him beaten, he heard women flayed
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Where they'd take him next, he had no way to tell
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Guantanamo Bay, three years in a cage
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Three years apart from his young son
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Three years of torture at every single stage
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No charge, no trial for him or anyone
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Moazzam's only crime was helping people
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In places that most others fear to go
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Moazzam's only crime was helping people
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And baring secrets some people don't want you to know
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Three years of campaigning for release
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Sent home to live 'neath England's cloudy sky
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The screams that ring out in his head can never cease
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Left to live his life and wonder why
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But the years passed by and the wars they ravaged on
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And it wasn't long before he knew
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With the hundreds of thousands dead and gone
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He had to find out if there was something he could do
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He came back home from burying the dead
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And was arrested on a terror law
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There was no question in his head
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He had to tell the world what he saw
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Such as the fact that his government kidnapped men
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And sent them to be tortured by Asad
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And this is why they've arrested him again
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And this is why I say in the name of God
Vanguard - David Rovics (Satirical Lefti...
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