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Body Count

Last night while I slept sound
Something was going down
News hit like falling rain
Wake up, it's happening again
Thousands of miles away
In a place I didn't think about until today
It's war or a flood and we can't know what it means
But it fits real well on our TV screens so

Give us the body count
We want to know how much to care
Give us the body count
We want to know how lucky we are
To not be there
To not be there

Sometimes I let it in
Sometimes I wonder what it feels like to be them
But most times I think of me
Out of sight, out of mind, works conveniently
Besides what's one person to do
My sympathy won't make what's done, untrue
Disaster's just a word it's not real
'Till it pains you and it claims you
And it forces you to feel

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And another one fell from the sky
Another one got buried in the blink of an eye
Just when you think it's over there's more
This global voyeurism's getting hard to ignore
And the closer it gets to home
The less you can dismiss it with hearts of stone
I don't know their names, you see
Oh, when they go they take a little piece of me yeah

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from It's Not What You Think, released November 25, 2003

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Chris Velan Montréal, Québec

Montreal singer-songwriter and producer, Chris Velan, has always been crossing borders with his brand of world music- influenced, singer-songwriter pop. Drawing comparisons to the smart, genre-mixing writing of Neil Finn, Nick Lowe and Paul Simon, Velan's
latest album, “Amateur Hour”, will be released September 14th with touring to follow. ... more

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