| It was late in a Lebanese restaurant, in the heat of a Lebanese night,
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| There was dancing, people were singing, she came in from the garden outside,
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| And in her eyes I saw the stars,
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| And I felt something happen in my heart;
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| Then I knew I was going to meet her in the heat of a Lebanese night,
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| And the girl inside the woman, who came over to sit by my side,
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| And when she smiled, the whole world stopped,
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| It was then I heard the echoes of a child;
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| And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby,
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| And the sound of the guns in the night,
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| And did you dance in the fields, did you run for your life,
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| From the hell that came down from the sky?
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| On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;
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| We went down to the edge of the water, by the light of a Lebanese dawn,
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| And she told me all the stories of her beautiful land in the war,
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| Her tears fell down, the sun came up,
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| And I saw again the young girl in her eyes;
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| And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby,
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| And the sound of the guns in the night,
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| And did you dance in the fields, did you run for your life,
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| From the hell that came down from the sky?
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| On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;
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| All of my life, all I have known,
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| only a place where peace cannot go;
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| All over the world, the gift from before,
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| nothing is left for the children of war;
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| And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby,
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| And the sound of the guns in the night,
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| And did you dance in the fields, did you run for your life,
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| From the hell that came down from the sky?
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| On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night,
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| On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night,
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| I will be waiting, in Lebanon. |