Mizo Boy

This song is dedicated to all those young people
Who died on both sides of the battle line

He played on his guitar and he danced in the sun
His lean and shining body sang out for everyone
He's older now, as cold as the hills of Mizoram
Lost his guitar, he's got a gun

He doesn't talk of music now, he talks of only fear
Before you get to see him, he's already disappeared
Running through the jungles, like a mountain deer
Hiding away from the sun

Oh, why do my brothers want to die?
Shot through the head on a lonely mountain site
Come looking to the anger of his pale blue eyes
He's only just a lonely Mizo boy

You can say that he's misguided, you can say that he is a fool
Someone's got to take the charge and send them back to school
And if required we should declare a military rule
To keep the mountain safe and secure

So we get into to the politics and tangled in the lies
And while we talk, yet another boy prepares to die
'Cause the military finds them dead but cannot find out why
Perhaps the pale blue mountains only know

Oh, the hills are green and the hills are clean and the mist is milky-white
But somewhere in a dirty home, a lonely woman cries
And the damn dirty family fade into the night
While the Mizo boy sings out all alone

He's lost his guitar, he's yet to lose his breath
He sings a song out loud I can never translate
'Cause he sings from his heart and I think from my head
And sings in a tongue that ain't my own

Oh, why do my brothers want to die?
Shot through the head on a lonely mountain site
Come looking to the anger of his pale blue eyes
He's only just a lonely Mizo boy

Oh, why do my brothers want to die?
Shot through the head on a lonely mountain site
Come looking to the anger of his pale blue eyes
He's only just a lonely Mizo boy

He's only just a lonely Mizo boy
He's only, only lonely Mizo boy
He's only just a lonely Mizo boy
Only just a lost Mizo boy
Only, only lonely Mizo boy