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Hotel Guantanamo Bay

from Let No​-​one Be Left Behind by The Same Boat

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My Darling Fatima, I write you this letter
I know it won't reach you, I have no paper or pen
But I must tell you how much I miss you
So I'll inscribe it on the walls of the inside of my head

I thought I could be strong and that my faith would guide me
And anything they did to me I could endure
But year after year of unrelenting isolation
There's little left deep down for me to be sure

The constant screaming in the cages beside me
Haunts my dreams and wakes me up in the night
Every day more and more I feel God has abandoned me
And gradually I'm succumbing and losing my will to fight

As I stare into the abyss and the darkness that's befallen me
I go back to the landscapes and the mountains
It's all I have left now that my eyes are failing me
I see only the pale shapes of these khaki-coloured demons

Look me in the eye you cowards and savages
Before you pull that bag over my head once again
The burning hot sand is nothing compared
To the searing imprint of your depravity on my brain

And I feel like a bird in a cage
Like a dead man has danced on my grave
And home feels like ten billion light years away
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay

Those eyes that taunt me through the peephole
And these bastard chains bite deep into my soul
And these feelings of revenge spiral out of control
Cause they can't replace the years of my life that they stole

And I feel like I'm slipping away
And I pray to God every day
Someday soon I'll be let out of this place
The Hotel Guantanamo Bay

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from Let No​-​one Be Left Behind, released March 8, 2016
Words: Lewington Music: Allen 2015

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