If you smile at me I will really understand 'Cause that is something everybody everywhere Does in the same language I can see by your coat, my friend You're from the other side There's just one thing that I'd like to know Can you tell me, please, who won our damn war? Say, can I have some of your purple berries? Yes, I've been eating them For six or seven weeks now and I haven't got sick once Probably keep us both alive Wooden ships on the water very free and easy Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be Silver people on the shoreline let us be Talking very free and easy Horror grips us as we watch you die All we can do is echo your anguished cry We can stare at you, yes, as all your human feelings die We are leaving, you don't Go, take a sister then, by her hand Lead her out of this foreign land Far away, where we might laugh again We are leaving, you don't You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't You don't, you don't, you don't Told us over and over, and over, and over And over, and over, and over again You think we're all fools and we're not listening And it's a fair wind Blowing warm out of the south, over my shoulder I guess I'm gonna set a course and go