Ian Stuart - Long Time Gone Lyrics

If I was a man who’d been away for
twenty years or more
And then I’d come back once again
And I saw the changes that had happened since I’d gone
Well I’d think I’d gone insane

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What happened to my country, what happened to my land
What happened to my nation, well I can’t understand

When I went away, everything was
pure and clean
And now there’s rubbish all around
Where there was light, now suddenly it’s dark
Yeah this land is going down, down, down, down

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instrumental break

(chorus)

I tried to come to terms with what
has happened through the years
But I still think that it is wrong
That a land that once was proud and free and cared for all its own
Now cares more for the ones who don’t belong, don’t belong

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