We asked him to smile for a photograph, / We waited awhile to see if we could make him laugh. / The soldier asked for a cigarette, his smiling face I can't forget. / He looked like a boy across the street, but that's a long way here.
And I wish you were here. / And I wish you were here.
Stranger, stranger in a strange land. / He looked at me like I was the one who should run.
I watched as he watched us get back on the bus, / I watched the way it was. / The way it was when he was with us. / And I really don't mind sleeping on the floor, / But I couldn't sleep after what I saw. / I wrote this letter to tell you the way I feel.
I wish you were here. / To see what I could see, to hear.
And I wish you were here.
