Kuiama lyrics

My My Kuiama, she came in the morning

she smiled but the tears on her little face

showed the pain that had been in that far off place

so sad, treated so bad

My My Kuiama, don't break your heart tryin

to say how your ma and your pa passed away

and they left you to wander the ruin and decay

real mean, that bullet machine

See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles

is a long long way and you're here today

and you won't go back so you might say

hello, how do you do

Kuia stop your cryin, there's no bombs a'fallin

no horsemen in the night a'ridin through your dreams and tearing at your life

baby goodnight

No more silver rain will hit your ground

and no more guns will sound

and no more life be drowned

No more trenches where the soldiers lie

and no more people die

beneath that big black sky

Wake up Kuiama, I got somethin to tell you

it's just that I mean, well that is to say,

that I'm trying to explain but I'll start again,

for you, I must be true.

Kuia in this country, they got rules with no reason

they teach you to kill and they send you away

with your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay

so cool, that no mercy tool

Kuia please believe me? I just couldn't help myself.

I wanted to run but they gave me a gun

and they told me the duty I owed to my Fatherland.

I made my stand.

Kuia I just shot them, I just blew their heads open,

and I heard them scream in their agony

Kuiama she waits there for me

True blue, you saw it through.

• Artist:Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
• Album:Electric Light Orchestra II (1972)