Hotel Guantanamo Bay
Dearest mother and father, I write to you this letter
I know it won’t reach you I have no paper or pen
But I must tell you how much I miss you
So I’ll inscribe it on the walls on the inside of my head
I thought I could be strong and that my faith would guide me
And no matter what they did to me, I could endure
But year after year of unrelenting isolation
There’s little left deep down for me to be sure
And tell me what does civilization mean?
When you taught to believe in the justice of your nation
I think I prefer the torturers hand
At least it’s some respite from the constant desolation
Look at me in the eye you cowards and savages
Before you put the bag over my head once again
The burning hot sand is nothing compared
To the searing imprint of your depravity on my brain
I feel like a bird in a cage
Like a dead man has danced on my grave
And home seems like 10 billion light years away
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
They keep asking me questions that I cannot answer
My body’s detaching itself from my mind
Please, subconscious, don’t overwhelm me
Fantasy and reality are becoming intertwined
The constant screaming in the enclosures beside me
It haunts my dreams and wakes me up in the night
Every day I feel that hope has abandoned me
Gradually I’m succumbing and losing my will to fight
I try to keep up my spirits by imagining the ocean
But the whales and dolphins are wearing gas masks
Has someone put something in my drinking water?
They’re eating pate and drinking wine from wine casks
I look around at this metal tomb of mine
No more than eight feet long and six feet wide
The cockroaches have become my dearest and closest friends
They bring me news from on the outside
And I feel like a bird in a cage
Like a dead man has danced on my grave
And home seems like 10 billion light years away
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
Outside is always dark and inside always light
Please god, let me hold on to myself
Has this purgatory I’m in been sent to test me
The monsters creep up beside me, those masters of stealth
As I look into this abyss, and the darkness before me
My mind goes back to the landscapes and the mountains
It’s all I have left now that my eyes are failing me
I see only the pale shapes of these khaki coloured demons
I use my mind to fly high on the winds
Across the seas and valleys and into the rainbow
I need to rest my weary head a while
And let the river just take me wherever it may flow
Get it over with! End this misery!
No one tells me what I did wrong!
Kill me or release me, goddamn it!
Why must I stay here in this hell for so long!?
And I feel like a bird in a cage
Like a dead man has danced on my grave
And home seems like 10 billion light years away
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
Those eyes that taunt me through the peephole
And these bastard chains bite deep into my soul
My feelings of revenge spiral out of control
And they can’t restore the years of my life that they stole
And I feel like a bird in a cage
Like a dead man has danced on my grave
Adelaide seems 10 billion light years away
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
I feel like I’m slipping away
But I pray to my god everyday
That someday soon I’ll be let out of this place
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay
From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay