Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Radio Baghdad, artist - Patti Smith. Date of issue: 09.08.2004
Song language: English
Radio Baghdad |
| 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 it’s 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 it’s 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 |