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What do you say to someone |
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Who's just lost everything |
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Eventually things might be OK |
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As he's standing there |
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With all that's left of life |
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Before the ocean rose and took it all away |
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I was at the mosque |
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I wasn't on the shore |
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I guess it was my lucky day |
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And when I made it home |
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There was no one there |
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The ocean rose and took them all away |
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We were fighting |
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For independence |
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That's all that I was thinking yesterday |
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But now all I'm thinking |
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Is we're on an island |
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And the ocean rose and took it all away |
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We're on an island |
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And the big trees all were cut |
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And this is how we all had to pay |
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Maybe Mr. Ford |
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Was on vacation in Thailand |
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When the ocean rose and took it all away |
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If this had happened |
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In Kyoto |
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Or San Francisco, I wonder what they'd say |
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But this ain't New York |
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It's just Aceh |
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Where the ocean rose and took it all away |