Wyclef Jean - Wish You Were Here Lyrics

Let's go
So so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell

Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts

Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change

Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage

Whether you listenin' to hip hip-hop
Or you tuning to rock
Refugees on your box
We gonna take over ya blocks

Let's go
How I wish, how I wish you we're here
We're just two lost souls swimming
In a fish bowl year after year
Running over the same old ground
Have we found the same old fears
Wish you we're here

Whether you listenin' to rock
Or pumpin' the hip hip hop
Refugees on your box

Critics don't mistake this for just any cover tune
I'ma take y'all to the dark side of the moon
Kickin' in my mom's room this song was just a thought
A young refugee labeled, jus' come with a passport
Dad used to tell me about the 'American Dream'
My dream was waking up in the projects
A young teen listening to hip hop
My brother tune me into rock
Put me up on Pink Floyd, a band from the British blocks

Whether you pumpin' the hip hip hop
Or you tuning to rock
Refugees on your box
We gonna take over the blocks
From NJ to bk to the UK