David Rovics - Moazzam lyrics

(Verse) Moazzam learned so young as a kid in Birmingham What it's like to lose most everything He was only six, just a few years from the pram When he discovered all the pain that life could bring His mother died so young, maybe that's where it began But when he grew up he'd travel far and wide He went off to Bosnia and Afghanistan For Moazzam there was no other side (Verse 2) When the US war began, he was taken in a raid Held for a year in a windowless cell He heard the men around him beaten, he heard women flayed Where they'd take him next, he had no way to tell Guantanamo Bay, the spears and the cage Three years apart from his young son sponsored links Three years of torture at every single stage No charge, no trial for him or anyone (Chorus) But Moazzam's only crime was helping people In places that most others fear to go Moazzam's only crime was helping people And baring secrets some people don't want you to know (Verse 3) Three years of campaigning for release Sent home to live 'neath England's cloudy sky The screams that ring out in his head can never cease Left to live his life and wonder why But the years pa**ed by and the wars they ravaged on And it wasn't long before he knew With the hundreds of thousands dead and gone He had to find out if there was something he could do (Chorus) But Moazzam's only crime was helping people In places that most others fear to go Moazzam's only crime was helping people And baring secrets some people don't want you to know (Verse 4) He came back home from burying the dead And was arrested on a terror law There was no question in his head He had to tell the world what he saw Such as the fact that his government kidnapped men And sent them to be tortured by Asad And this is why they've arrested him again And this is why I say in the name of God (Chorus x2) But Moazzam's only crime was helping people In places that most others fear to go Moazzam's only crime was helping people And baring secrets some people don't want you to know