Immigrant

I see these courtyards of marble stone
Pillars draped in vines, roots overgrown
I try remember but my memories weak
This city’s home to liars, liars and thieves, dirty thieves
It’s hard to tell the rotten from the ripe
When bittersweet blasphemy sours every bite
The taste of freedom don’t satisfy
Nothing satisfies
Nothing satisfies
This place these people, I’ve been here too long
Picked up the local speak and I lost my mother tongue
Haven’t sung in so long
It’s hard to tell wrong from right
When bittersweet blasphemy sours every bite
The taste of freedom don’t satisfy
Nothing satisfies
Nothing satisfies
I still recall the day you said to me
You’ll be home again someday you’ll see
When the war’s blood seeps beneath your door
I will stand beside you
And when the grey river banks spring flood
In the days when the sky crackles black above
Still your shaken soul, till the sun runs cold
I will stand beside you, I will stand beside you
Lord I’m tired I’m empty
And as I wait here patiently
I see them break, see them cry
See them begging for a sign
Oh I see it all come to nothing
You and me it feels like we are worlds away
With every year that passes I decay
You and me it feels like we are worlds away
And with or without you it seems I’ll stay lonely
You and me seem to be
Split between the stars
Distant seas, aimlessly
Drifting in the dark
You and me it feels like we are worlds away
With every year that passes I decay
You and me it feels like we are worlds away
And with or without you it seems I’ll stay lonely