The Gap

Wake up in a strange land

One of fourty thieves

I see for the first time

Just what you believe

I go down to the market

Where I can buy or sell

And I listen to the chanting

And all the lies the wise ones tell

They say

East is east, west is west, uh

Two different colors on the map

We say break the line, chew the fat

I keep moving out into the gap

Beggars in the back street

There for all the world to leave

It's you that's begging for attention

Well it's all the same to me

And I won't ask permission

Not from teachers or from kings

'Cause I can see for myself

With all the pain that you will bring

But you say

East is east, west is west, uh

Two different rhythms to the rap

We say break the line, chew the fat

I keep moving out into the gap

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West

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West

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East is east, west is west, uh

Two different colors on the map

We say break the line, chew the fat

I keep moving out into the gap

Can you smell the perfume

Of a hundred thousand years?

Dare you look into the eyes

That hide a hundred million tears?

But there's no need to be so frightened

Of all the figures in the night

'Cause we share the same emotions

And no one's wrong and no one's right

'Cause they say

East is east, west is west, uh

Two different colors on the map

We say break the line, chew the fat

I keep moving out into the gap

They say

East is east, west is west, uh

Two different colors on the map

We say break the line, chew the fat

I keep moving out into the gap

They say

East is east, west is west, uh

Two different rhythms to the rap

We say break the line, chew the fat

I keep moving out into the gap