Suffer not / Your neighbor’s affliction / Suffer not / Your neighbor’s paralysis / But extend your hand / Extend your hand / Lest you vanish in the city / And be but a trace / Just a vanished ghost / And your legacy / All the things you knew / Science, mathematics, thought / Severely weakened / Like irrigation systems / In the tired veins forming / From the Tigris and Euphrates / In the realm of peace / All the world revolved / All the world revolved / Around a perfect circle / City of Baghdad / City of scholars / Empirical humble / Center of the world / City in ashes / City of Baghdad / City of Baghdad / Abrasive aloof




Oh, in Mesopotamia / Aloofness ran deep / Deep in the veins of the great rivers / That form the base of Eden / And the tree / The tree of knowledge / Held up its arms to the sky / All the branches of knowledge / Cradling / Civilization / In the realm of peace / All the world revolved / Around a perfect circle / Oh Baghdad / Center of the world / City of ashes / With its great mosques / Erupting from the mouth of god / Rising from the ashes like a speckled bird / Splayed against the mosaic sky / Oh, clouds around / We created the zero / But we mean nothing to you / You would believe / That we are just some mystical tale / We are just a swollen belly / That gave birth to Sinbad, Scheherazade / We gave birth / Oh, oh, to the zero / The perfect number / We invented the zero / And we mean nothing to you / Our children run through the streets / And you sent your flames / Your shooting stars / Shock and awe / Shock and awe / Like some, some / Imagined warrior production / Twenty-first century / No chivalry involved / No Bushido




Oh, the code of the West / Long gone / Never been / Where does it lie? / You came, you came / Through the west / Annihilated a people / And you come to us / But we are older than you / You come you wanna / You wanna come and rob the cradle / Of civilization / And you read yet you read / You read Genesis / You read of the tree / Beget by god / That raised its branches into the sky / Every branch of knowledge / Of the cradle of civilization / Of the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates / Oh, in Mesopotamia / Aloofness ran deep / The face of Eve turning / What sky did she see / What garden beneath her feet / The one you drill / You drill / Pulling the blood of the earth / Little droplets of oil for bracelets / Little jewels / Sapphires / You make bracelets / Round your own world / We are weeping tears / Rubies / We offer them to you / We are just / Your Arabian nightmare / We invented the zero / But we mean nothing to you / Your Arabian nightmare




City of stars / City of scholarship / Science / City of ideas / City of light / City / City of ashes / That the great Caliph / Walked through / His naked feet formed a circle / And they built a city / A perfect city of Baghdad / In the realm of peace / And all the world revolved / And they invented / And they mean nothing to you / Nothing to you / Nothing / Go to sleep / Go to sleep my child / Go to sleep / And I’ll sing you a lullaby / A lullaby for our city / A lullaby of Baghdad / Go to sleep / Sleep my child / Sleep / Sleep / Sleep / Run / Run / Run / Run