I met a child in Belfast and Derry the last of a tribe on the American prairie down under I saw some old native sons, a Kurdish girl faced by German guns I saw the tears... And I saw the tears of the last 100 years of wars and oppression. Of wars and oppression broken dreams, human fears in their eyes, in their eyes Immigrant eyes on a German police station in this land it's a normal situation escaping from a civil war to be mistreated by the German law I saw the tears...