Helicopters by Barenaked Ladies Lyrics

[Intro]
This is where the helicopters came to take me away
This is where the children used to play

[Verse 1]
This is only half a mile away
From the attack
This is where my life changed in a day
And then it changed back
Buried in the din of rotor noise and close explosions
I do my best to synthesize the sounds and my emotions

[Verse 2]
This is where the allies bombed the school
They say by mistake
Here nobody takes me for a fool
Just for a fake
Later at the hotel bar, the journalists are waiting
I hurry back to my guitar while they're commiserating

[Chorus]
And I'll be leaving soon
I'll be leaving soon
[Verse 2]
Just as soon as we were on the ground
We were back in the jet
Just another three day foreign tour
We'd never forget
It's hard to sympathize with all this devastation
Hopping 'round from site to site like tourists on vacation

[Chorus]
And I'll be leaving soon
I'll be leaving soon

[Bridge]
I can't help anyone 'cause everyone's so cold
Everyone's so skeptical of everything they're told
And even I get sick of needing to be sold

[Verse 3]
Though it's only half a month away
The media's gone
An entertaining scandal broke today
But I can't move on
I'm haunted by a story and I do my best to tell it
Can't even give this stuff away, why would I sell it?
Everybody's laughing, while at me they point a finger
A world that loves its irony must hate the protest singer
[Chorus]
So I'll be leaving soon
I'll be leaving soon
I'll be leaving soon
I'll be leaving soon