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Jim: Oh, God!
Californian Weirdo: Sole has no eyes.
Could be Jerusalem, or it could be Cairo
Could be Berlin, or it could be
Prague
Could be Moscow, could be New York
Could be Llanelli, and it could
be Warrington
Could be Warsaw, and it could be Moose Jaw
Could be
Rome
Everybody got somewhere they call home
When they overrun the defences
A minor invasion put down to expenses
Will you go down to the airport
lounge?
Will you accept your second-class status?
A nation of waitresses
and waiters
Will you mix their martinis?
Will you stand still for
it?
Or will you take to the hills?
It could be clay and it could be sand
Could be desert
Could be a tract
of arable land
Could be a house, could be a corner shop
Could be a cabin
by a bend in the river
Could be something your old man handed down
Could
be something you built on your own
Everybody got something he calls home
When the cowboys and Arabs draw down
On each other at noon
In the cool
dusty air of the city boardroom
Will you stand by a passive spectator
Of
the market dictators?
Will you discreetly withdraw
With your ear pressed
to the boardroom door?
Will you hear when the lion within you roars?
Will
you take to the hills?
Will you stand, will you stand for it?
Will you hear, ohhhh! ohhh! when
the lion within you roars?
Could be your father and it could be your mother
Could be your sister, could be your brother
Could be a foreigner, could be
a Turk
Could be someone out looking for work.
Could be a king, could be
the Aga khan
Could be a Vietnam vet with no arms and no legs
Could be a
saint, could be a sinner
Could be a loser or it could be a winner
Could be
a banker, could be a baker
Could be a Laker, could be Kareem Abdul
Jabar
Could be a male voice choir
Could be a lover, could be a
fighter
Could be a super heavyweight
Or it could be something lighter
Could be a cripple, could be a freak
Could be a wop, gook, geek
Could
be a cop, could be a thief
Could be a family of ten living in one room on
relief
Could be our leaders in their concrete tombs
With their tinned food
and their silver spoons
Could be the pilot with God on his side
Could be
the kid in the middle of the bombsight
Could be a fanatic, could be a
terrorist
Could be a dentist, could be a psychiatrist
Could be humble,
could be proud
Could be a face in the crowd
Could be the soldier in the white cravat
Who turns the key in spite of the
fact
That this is the end of the cat and mouse
Who dwelt in the
house
Where the laughter rang and the tears were spilt
The house that Jack
built
Where the laughter rang and the tears were spilt
The house that Jack
built
Bang, bang, shoot, shoot
White gloved thumb, Lord thy will be
done
He was always a good boy his mother said
He'll do his duty when he's
grown
Yeah everybody's got someone they call home
