Flying To Athens ft. Ali Hamilton Lyrics

Where do I come from you'll never know

Maybe Zimbabwe or Mexico

Could be North Korea perhaps it's Iraq

But one thing I know

I'll never go back

Back in the day I was happy to be

Somebody somewhere not this refugee

Now my children are gone my man is no more

Charred photographs

Carpet a floor

(So I'm)

Flying to Athens, Paris or Rome

LA or London

I'll call it home

If you show me some mercy I'll pay the price

I'm flying to freedom

Out of this life

Start of the new life lying in bed

Sleeping with strangers paying my debt

Picture my son, the smile on his face

Picture a journey

Out of this place

(So I'm)

Flying to Athens, Paris or Rome

LA or London

I'll call it home

If you show me some mercy I'll pay the price

I'm flying to freedom

Out of this life

We wish you well

'We must be mad'

And grace

'Literally mad'

from above

'The annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents'

But one thing

'Who are for the most part'

We can't offer you

'The material of the future growth

of the immigrant descending population

Heaping up its own funeral pyre'

Is love

Man in an office face like a stone

I don't tick the boxes they're sending me home

Window is open the building is high

Step into space

I reach for the sky

Flying to Athens Paris or Rome

LA or London

A place to call home

But there is no mercy just sacrifice

(So I'm)

Flying to freedom

Out of this life