This is a rephrasing of something I heard an elder Afghan man say in a focus group I was a part of facilitating. The man had been an accomplished writer and professor in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded. In the US he was just another war refugee, and yet, he says "I'm not one to complain." This song is meant to be about the resiliency of the human spirit, which astounds me.
lyrics
Everyone's got their sad story
It's not that God doesn't love me
They took my job
They took my child
My wife, my father, everything
And all the while it was raining in Kabul
I am nothing
I am no one
But I'm not one to complain
When I came . . .
The spirit transcends all the pain
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