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 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. 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.... Run Run.... You sent your lights Your bombs. You sent them down on our city Shock and awe. Like some crazy t.v. show. They're robbing the cradle of civilization. They're robbing the cradle of civilization. They're robbing the cradle of civilization. Suffer not The paralysis of your neighbor. Suffer not But extend your hand