The Lost Boys of Sudan is the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005); about 2.5 million were killed and millions were displaced. The name "Lost Boys of Sudan" was colloquially used by aid workers in the refugee camps where the boys resided in Africa.
Most of the boys were orphans separated from their families when government troops and government-sponsored militias systematically attacked villages in southern Sudan, killing many of the inhabitants. Many avoided capture or death because they were away from their villages tending cattle at the cattle camps (grazing land located near bodies of water where cattle were taken and tended largely by the village children during the dry season) and were able to flee and hide in the dense African bush. Presumably orphaned, they traveled by foot for years in search of safe refuge, on a journey that carried them over a thousand miles across three countries to refugee camps where they resided in Ethiopia and Kenya and in various villages where they sought refuge in South Sudan. Over half died along their epic journey, due to starvation, dehydration, sickness and disease and attack by wild animals and enemy soldiers. Experts say they are the most badly war-traumatized children ever examined. The Foundation For The Lost Boys pay for them to go to school in the states.
Sudan (i/suːˈdæn/ or /suːˈdɑːn/;Arabic: السودان, as-Sūdān), officially the Republic of the Sudan (Arabic: جمهورية السودان, Jumhūrīyat as-Sūdān), sometimes called North Sudan, is an Arab state in North Africa (sometimes also considered to be part of the Middle East). It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest. The population of Sudan is a combination of indigenous inhabitants of Nile Valley, and descendants of migrants from the Arabian Peninsula. Due to the process of Arabisation common throughout the rest of the Arab World, today Arab culture predominates in Sudan. The majority of the population of Sudan adheres to Islam. The Nile divides the country between east and west sides.
The people of Sudan have a long history extending from antiquity which is intertwined with the history of Egypt. Sudan suffered seventeen years of civil war during the First Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972) followed by ethnic, religious and economic conflicts between the Muslim Arab northern Sudanese and the mostly animist and Christian Nilotes of Southern Sudan. This led to the Second Sudanese Civil War in 1983. Because of continuing political and military struggles, Sudan was seized in a bloodless coup d'état by colonel Omar al-Bashir in 1989, who thereafter proclaimed himself President of Sudan. The civil war ended with the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement which granted autonomy to what was then the southern region of the country. Following a referendum held in January 2011, South Sudan seceded on 9 July 2011 with the consent of Sudan's President al-Bashir.
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(Nothing's gonna make you stop
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna close your eyes)
Morning light hurts your eyes
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
Blind boys never lie
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
'Cause in the end
You're just reborn again
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
Lost boys
We are dead until dark
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
You say
You wanna live like I do
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
'Cause in the end
We're just reborn again
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
Lost boys
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
Lost boys
(You wanna rock)
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
Lost boys
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
Lost boys
You wanna rock
Nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
Lost boys
(Nothing's gonna make you stop
Lost boys
Everybody knows you're lost
Lost boys)
You've held us down too long with your idealistic lives.
The future that you offer and success for which you strive.
It seems to me you've grown up way too fast.
We don't want your future, we don't want your lies.
Lost boys, never get old.
I'm never getting old.
We're smarter than you think and we'll never be like you.
We'll hold onto the power, the promise of our youth.
And as life takes us closer to the grave.
You hold on to your future, we'll hold on to our lives.
You think your leading?
You're only clones.
You follow suit, but just leave me alone.
My blistered feet turn bloody
So I take to the air
And I am everywhere, I am starlight
Oh, I am moonlight
Over burning fields and bodies
I stay close to the ground
Slipping miles from the arches and arc-lights
Into the warm night
Winged children, all
Will fly over the mountain wall
To the lid of the sky
And slice its belly full wide
With their warm knives
Not the pin-pricks of starlight
But to bathe in the bright blood
(Lost boys)
Other side of da tracks
Scuzz outsiders
Nothin ta loose
Strike of midnighters
Lost boys
True black and blues
No shoes, flat tires
Broke out da pen
Blood on barbed wire
Safe in your home
Gated zone terrorizers
Nowhere ta go
Far as I can get hitchhikers
(Lost boys)
Fuck a job might have ta rob
A don't know just ta get by word
On the road for lifers
Bullets in the fire
Check the chain link
Swayze I'm slummin
Let em know who da fuck we are
Low and dirty lost boys
Comin out the cuts
Like your favorite scar
Crawlin on tile, can't stand up
Been a while, kommodo gut
How ta take it
How ta give a fuck
How ta live wit pain
How ta get yo cut
How longs this been goin on
Man shit no way ta tell too far gone go get those flames from hell bring em
Here
Don't trip no
I'll handle this
On some scandalous
Inland empire los angeles
Anti ego propaganda shit
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Whos comin up
Whos loosin ground
2012 I'm shady now, running game on every thang in town
It's such a long way down
Brown paper baggin asphalt scrapin all talk no action, what I'm waitin
Weak tongue waggin
Stray dog beggin
Like don't hurt me
Yeah right, I'm sayin
Beware you have been warned, the barrels still warm, ease up off that lip
Or step
How quick a bitch fit ta get checked mate
One false move'll get ya
Set straight
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
It's such a long way down
Oh yeah yeah
Trash and vaudeville
Tight dresses and painted faces
It's time to free the lions
From the circus cages
Jaded baby
Come whisper in my ear
Better come closer 'cause
The music is loud here
I'm the monkey that you've always been afraid of
I'm the spirit that haunts your dreams
Deep inside
Don't you have a little bit of sympathy
Don't you want to
Give me some affection
Why is it so hard
Don't you get tired
Same smilin' faces
Don't you get a little bit lonely
Hiding in crowded places
Don't trust the stranger
You should know better
But this heart of darkness
Can be your shelter
I ain't rich enough I really don't belong here
I don't want to meet your mommy and daddy
I ain't good lookin' but you get used to it like I did
Don't you want to
Give me some affection
We're lost boys never going home
We're lost souls born to be alone
But there's something you should know
We're the ones who make it so
But our time is coming around
I bet you work real hard for the money that you got
It takes a whole lot of crime to line these pockets
I bet you work real hard for the money that you got
It takes a whole lot of crime to line these pockets
All the lost boys and the girls that are losing it...
Go work it out!
I know a girl, she's one of a kind
But the poor little thing, she's going out of her mind
There's something you forgot - there's a reason why she's lost
Cos baby she don't want to be found
I bet you work real hard for the money that you got
It takes a whole lot of crime to line these pockets
I bet you work real hard for the money that you got
It takes a whole lot of crime to line these pockets
All the lost boys and the girls that are losing it, go work it out
All the lost boys and the girls that are losing it, go turn it up
All the lost boys and the girls that are losing it, hear what I say
You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your
lips.
And there's no tenderness like before in your
fingertips.
You're trying hard not to show it,
But baby, baby I know it
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling,
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone,gone,gone
Whoah.
Now there's no welcome look in your eyes
When I reach for you.
And You've starting to criticize little things I do.
doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
It makes me just feel like crying,
'Cause baby, something beautiful's dying
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling,
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone,gone,gone
Whoah.
Baby baby,
I'll get down on my knees for you.
A love,
A love you don't find everyday.
So darling, darling, darling,
don't let it slip away
Baby
,
baby
,
please,
please,
I need your love
,
I need your love
oh please don't go
oh please don't go
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling,
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone, gone, gone
And I can't go on
Whoah.
Yeah
Bring back that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling
Bring back that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone, gone, gone,
And I cant go on,
Whoah
Doo doo
doo doo
doo doo
doo
doo
(repeat and fade till end)