LYRICS

    REFUGEE

    We were talking after work about our clients misfortunes

    And all the rules we had to constantly enforce

    Quickly conversation switched to holiday destinations

    But then the grumbling came straight back, yeah the economy of course

    And as per usual we declared all the things we're not to blame for

    And like on cue there was a rap against the window pane

    As we opened up we found a little lady pleading

    To the welfare bureau can we show her the way

    She lost her way

    She was a refugee                               

    She asked please rescue me and my son

    She was a refugee

    But she was like you and me, but alone, far from home

    With her baby son, on the run
 

    It was late on friday night there would be no welfare open

    And as we tried to figure out what language that she spoke

    She explained in broken english she got dumped just past the border

    With her baby in her arms, tired, dirty, broke

    There was no way she would go back from whence she came from

    In her homeland there waged war as brutal as they come

    She would rather fight alone in this foreign country

    Than lose to hateful war her dignity and son

    Dignity and son

    So the next time you talk all those souls into a cliché 

    Just remember they are flawed just like you and me

    With no fault of their own they got dealt a cruel fortune

    And now they need a little help, help to be free, 

    Like you and me, want to be free

    Want to be free