Millions of people from the colonies Were living in the far-away cities Home of those who killed their country Who tried for over a century To bring Jesus back to Africa From Mali to Algeria And they fired into the protesters Dumped them in the rivers
There were lots of folks getting along Lots of folks feeling they'd been wronged In the crowded Paris streets In the patrol car's back seats In the land of the catechism In the land of secularism Where the learned taught the learning Where the cars were sometimes burning
Before the war came home Before the war came home
There was rising real estate Fear of the Caliphate No question what it meant When Le Pen got 25% Fighter jets in flight Lighting up the night More enemies were made When the armies of the west invaded
There were lots of talking heads Quoting something someone said There were blasphemous cartoons Pouring salt upon the wounds More countries to attack Now Syria, now Iraq Fighters returning Who had seen the cities burning
Before the war came home Before the war came home
There were people in the cafes Having meetings, drinking au laits There were tourists in the tower There were girls picking flowers There were Muslims praying There were others saying This is a secular nation No room for religious demonstration
There were people talking about blowback There were occasional attacks There were many people asking What kind of beer was brewing There were ringing church bells And Al-Qaeda sleeper cells Passersby without a clue What those masked men were about to do
Before the war came home Before the war came homeTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.