[00:00.56]Oh Canada
[00:00.85]-Missy Higgins-
[00:01.11](Broadcast):
[00:01.42]More information has come to light about 3-year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi,
[00:06.59]whose body was found recently washed up on a beach in Turkey.
[00:09.69]Refugee applicants now say that his family's ultimate goal was to reach asylum
[00:14.16]in Canada.
[00:15.99]He was carried from the water by a solider
[00:21.78]And the picture screams a thousand different words
[00:27.26]He was running from the terror with his father
[00:33.84]Who once believed that nothing could be worse
[00:38.87]So he’d handed a man two thousand precious dollars
[00:45.17]The way you’d rest a bird in a lion’s open jaw
[00:51.02]And he told the boys that Canada was waiting
[00:57.25]That there was hope upon her golden shores
[01:03.44]But at night he said a quiet prayer into the wind
[01:11.92]Oh Canada, if you can hear me now
[01:20.52]Won’t you open up your arms towards the sea
[01:25.27]Oh Canada, if you can help me out
[01:32.24]All I've ever wanted was a safe place for my family
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[01:53.09]Well the days were long but the nights were even longer
[01:58.39]And the baby boys never left their mother’s side
[02:03.32]But the boat was small and the waves were getting stronger
[02:10.01]And they began to fear they’d not survive
[02:16.31]So the father said “We gotta hold each other tighter
[02:21.59]I’m not losing everyone I love tonight
[02:26.07]And we’ve come so far I know that out there somewhere
[02:32.66]There’s a place where we’ll not fear for our lives”
[02:38.62]But as he held onto the side of the boat he looked up at the sky
[02:49.40]Oh Canada, if you can hear me now
[02:55.82]Won’t you open up your arms towards the sea
[03:00.28]Oh Canada, if you can help me out
[03:07.79]The sea is turning and I think we’re going down
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[03:26.36]Oh Canada, if you can hear me now,
[03:31.54]Won’t you open up your heart towards the sea
[03:36.85]Oh anyone, please help us out
[03:43.33]All we've ever wanted was a safe place for our family
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[04:00.61]There’s a million ways to justify your fear
[04:07.71]There’s a million ways to measure out your words
[04:13.63]But the body of Alan being laid upon the sand
[04:20.12]Tell me how do you live with that?
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