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Lyrics for Radio Baghdad by PATTI SMITH:
| | | Artist: | PATTI SMITH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Radio Baghdad | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 74 | | | | Lyrics: | (SmithRay)
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 All the branches of knowledge
Cradling 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 Throu | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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