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Asylum

I left without a promise, save one that I believed in
The prospect of a job, some peace that I could live in
A persecuted migrant, from a broken land
Taken all that I could stand
I came here looking for asylum

I crossed over the water, in the back of a container
Cost me two years wages and some lurid favours
Wound up in Covent Garden
Working clubs and selling garments
Red lights my only welcome
When I came looking for asylum

All I was told is just a lie
There is no job, no better life
Just more to crush your spirit, kill your soul
No haven from the slaughter here
Just a slower burn from hate and fear
Far from everyone I’ve known
This asylum, just a home from home (In more ways than one)

Moved on to some old northern town, like hunted vermin gone to ground
Cruel headlines raining down, they do not want me hanging round
So many myths I can’t ignore, about what it is that I’m here for
But I’m just running from a war
And now I’m looking for asylum

What kind of place is this that drives, the helpless into labour lines
To be exploited by the gangs, put at the mercy of the tides
The state is blind and we’ve been cast, as a brand new form of underclass
Got no future just a past
And it brought me looking for asylum

Sometimes wish I could disappear
There’s nothing better for me here
Can’t go back and now I can’t go on
My dignity has turned to shame
Feel like a number not a name
Give me something for the pain
This asylum, just a sick and arbitrary game

I hear them starting up the plane
Maybe I should just climb aboard
Send me back to where I came from
It doesn’t matter anymore
I’m just a number
In a policy document ….an arbitrary number in a manifesto

Found today another body, unidentified and probably
Just a stranger in a strange land…………..

Words & Music by Gareth Davies-Jones PRS
Copyright© Gareth Davies-Jones 2006