Kuiama - Electric Light Orchestra

My, my Kuiama, she came in the morning

She smiled but the tears on her little face

Showed the pain that had been in that far-off place

So sad, treated so bad

My, my Kuiama, don’t break your heart tryin'

To say how your ma and your pa passed away

And they left you to wander the ruin and decay

Real mean, that bullet machine

See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles

Is a long, long way and you’re here today

And you won’t go back so you might say

«Hello, how do you do?»

Kuia, stop your cryin', there’s no bombs a-fallin'

No horsemen in the night a-ridin'

Through your dreams and tearing at your life

Baby, goodnight

No more silver rain will hit your ground

And no more guns will sound

No more life be drowned

No more trenches where the soldiers lie

And no more people die

Beneath that big black sky

Wake up, Kuiama, I got somethin' to tell you

It’s just that I mean, well, that is to say

That I’m trying to explain but I’ll start again

For you, I must be true

Kuia, in this country, they got rules with no reason

They teach you to kill and they send you away

With your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay

So cool, that no mercy tool

Kuia, please believe me, I just couldn’t help myself

I wanted to run but they gave me a gun

And they told me the duty I owed to my fatherland

I made my stand

Kuia, I just shot them, I just blew their heads open

And I heard them scream in their agony

Kuiama, she waits there for me

True blue, you saw it through