Omar

from Otras Alhóndigas EP by Ryan Morgan

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Omar doesn't know whether he threw the grenade or not.
Sometimes memory's a liar, and he knows it.
Things start getting hazy right around when he got shot,
and when he woke up all the soldiers said he'd thrown it.

The boy just wants a chance,
after everything, in spite of all of it,
just to be a man.
To be human, not the object of our politics.

Omar's been a lot of things to lots of different people,
but the one thing that he never is is Omar.
Fourteen years old, and on a plane to Kandahar,
the kind of history you don't read on your sonar.

Eight years in Cuba, maybe Omar met his match.
The kind of wounds that won't be cauterized or spoken.
Things have gotten better now that he learned how to work the latch.
You know, where Omar's been, the windows didn't open.

The boy just wants a chance,
after everything, in spite of all of it,
just to be a man.
To be human, not the object of our politics.

Omar doesn't know whether he threw the grenade or not.
Sometimes the answers change depending on who's asking.
Things start getting hazy right around when he got shot.
You know, there's space between the truth and just what happened.

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from Otras Alhóndigas EP, released September 24, 2017

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