Tsunami - David Rovics

What do you say to someone

Who’s just lost everything

Eventually things might be OK

As he’s standing there

With all that’s left of life

Before the ocean rose and took it all away

I was at the mosque

I wasn’t on the shore

I guess it was my lucky day

And when I made it home

There was no one there

The ocean rose and took them all away

We were fighting

For independence

That’s all that I was thinking yesterday

But now all I’m thinking

Is we’re on an island

And the ocean rose and took it all away

We’re on an island

And the big trees all were cut

And this is how we all had to pay

Maybe Mr. Ford

Was on vacation in Thailand

When the ocean rose and took it all away

If this had happened

In Kyoto

Or San Francisco, I wonder what they’d say

But this ain’t New York

It’s just Aceh

Where the ocean rose and took it all away