Leo Sayer — Refugees

We are lost We are homeless Doomed to sail forever on this stormy sea When we left here We gave up all we owned Chased by the devil that stole our homes And we may never see The beauty of our land again No backward glance No history, no home, no claim Only shame We are old We are many Crowded to the gunnels on a broken boat We seek food We seek shelter We seek arms around us to give us hope But we may never find A welcome on your foreign shore We know the odds are stacked against The coloured, sick, the weak and poor We could be you We share the same blood So why's our fate so different in this human flood? So you chase us You despise us Divide us up with your looks and your shallow words So we survive in limbo Or come to you illegally We may share the soil But we will never be unchained and free And when we disappear You'll never get to see us flee They will hide us from you Say it's for your liberty Your sanity We are lost We are homeless Homeless Hopeless