Patti Smith - Radio Baghdad - Текст песни

(Smith/Ray)

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