Wyclef Jean - Wish You Were Here lyrics

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for goals hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage

Whether you listenin' to hip Hip-Hop
Or you tuning to rock refugees on your box
We gonna take over ya blocks

Let's go
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're jus two lost souls swimming in
A fish bowl year after year
Runnin over the same old ground
But have we found the same old fears
Wish you were here

Whether you listenin' to rock
Or you pumpin' the hip hip hop
Refugees on your box

Critics don't mistake this for
Just any cover tune
I'ma take y'all to the "Dark
Side of the Moon"
Kickin' in my mom's room this
Song was just a thought
A young refugee labeled
Just come with a passport
Dad used to tell me about the American dream
My dream was waking up the projects
A young teen listenin' to Hip-Hop
My brother tuned me into rock
Put me up on Pink Floyd
A band from the British blocks

Whether you pumpin' the hip hip hop
Or you tuning to rock refugees on your box
We gonna take over the blocks
From NJ to BK to the UK