This is where the helicopters came   To take me away   This is where the children   Used to play      This is only half a mile away   From the attack   This is where my life changed in a day   And then it changed back      Buried in the din of rotor noise   And close explosions   I do my best to synthesize the sounds   And my emotions      This is where the allies bombed the school   They say by mistake   Here nobody takes me for a fool   Just for a fake      Later at the hotel bar   The journalists are waiting   I hurry back to my guitar   While they're commiserating      And I'll be leaving soon   I'll be leaving soon      Just as soon as we were on the ground   We were back in the jet   Just another three day foreign tour   We'd never forget      It's hard to sympathize   With all this devastation   Hopping 'round from site to site   Like tourists on vacation      And I'll be leaving soon   I'll be leaving soon      I can't help anyone   'Cause everyone's so cold   Everyone's so skeptical   Of everything they're told   And even I get sick of   Needing to be sold      Though it's only half a month away   The media's gone   An entertaining scandal broke today   But I can't move on      I'm haunted by a story   And I do my best to tell it   Can't even give this stuff away   Why would I sell it?      Everybody's laughing   While at me they point a finger   A world that loves its irony   Must hate the protest singer      So I'll be leaving soon   I'll be leaving soon   I'll be leaving soon   I'll be leaving soon