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"Leaving Beirut" is a song by Roger Waters. It was released on his CD single To Kill The Child/Leaving Beirut (in Japan only) and as an online music download in 2005. Most of the song serves as an instrumental backdrop for a short story about Waters' experiences hitch-hiking in Lebanon when he was a teenager. These sections are interspersed with lyrics about the United States and United Kingdom involvement in the Iraq War.

Waters has performed the song on his Dark Side of the Moon tour, replacing the spoken-word recitation with a projected backdrop of the story as a graphic novel. The song received a mixed reaction from crowd members during the first United States tour stop at New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on September 6, 2006; however, the audience reaction at the October 5, 2006 performance at the Hollywood Bowl was overwhelmingly positive, with many patrons rising to their feet and cheering.

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