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The Kelly Song Collective
Radicalized
25 miles from the Syrian border
15 thousand souls
1,000,000 miles from the land of the free
I study at the university
It courses through my veins
Bridges appear as I wave my hand
The day I breathed the soldiers came
Any peace I’ve known is not
What can I think my heart is two
My father taught me right from wrong
And I have my mother’s eyes
I don’t hate I praise Allah
They say I’m radicalized
This city was my teacher
Praying for the sunrise
But the schoolyard was a minefield
Blame the drugs or my parents fighting
Or moving place to place
I never see the sunset
Unlikely date on a cell phone camera
Terrorist or not
I am what you say I am
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© Michael Worthington Music 2014

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