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A Kurdish woman thinks back on the event that sent her family running for their lives - the Halabja poison gas attack on Kurdistan on March 16, 1988.

She is grateful to have survived and been given the opportunity for a fresh start - thousands weren't so lucky - but part of her still longs to be closer to the roots that she left behind.

Before the gas bombs were dropped, the planes tested the wind currents by dropping blank pages of paper over the city.

This song was inspired by Choman Hardi's poems - "My Mother's Kitchen" and "Two Pages"

LYRICS:

Civilized Sadness - March 16,1988 lament

I can't show you the border

on a man - made map

on the ridge of our mountain

we had four seasons

I really miss that

pages - blank pages - fell from the sky

and we all went running over

thrilled by the surprise

testing - testing

then it fell from the sky

first it smelled like sweet apples

first it smelled sweet

life is a lottery

it favours the quick

memory is elusive

runs away

awayay

away

with

it

I hear her singing to the plums and the grapes

see her nimble hands sewing cotton and lace

bags which would protect fruit from bees

all of these things I carry with me

my sister's smile, my father's poetry

but I know that

"I will never inherit

my mother's trees"

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