Radio Baghdad-Patti Smith

[ti:radio baghdad] [ar:Patti Smith] [al:Trampin'] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Radio Baghdad - Patti Smith (帕蒂·史密斯) [00:08.94](Smith/Ray) [00:32.58]Suffer not Your neighbor's affliction [00:37.61]Suffer not Your neighbor's paralysis [00:43.69]But extend your hand Extend your hand [00:52.80]Lest you vanish in the city And be but a trace [00:59.35]Just a vanished ghost And your legacy [01:05.68]All the things you knew Science mathematics thought [01:15.55]Severely weakened Like irrigation systems [01:22.75]In the tired veins forming From the Tigris and Euphrates [01:29.61]In the realm of peace All the world revolved [01:34.16]All the world revolved Around a perfect circle [01:38.97]City of Baghdad City of scholars [01:43.52]Empirical humble Center of the world [01:48.64]City in ashes City of Baghdad [01:53.44]City of Baghdad Abrasive aloof [02:27.95]Oh in Mesopotamia Aloofness ran deep [02:38.75]Deep in the veins of the great rivers [02:45.18]That form the base Of Eden [02:50.02]And the tree The tree of knowledge [02:55.08]Held up its arms To the sky [02:59.92]All the branches of knowledge All the branches of knowledge [03:05.57]Cradling Cradling [03:13.08]Civilization In the realm of peace [03:20.34]All the world revolved Around a perfect circle [03:26.80]Oh Baghdad Center of the world [03:30.80]City of ashes With its great mosques [03:35.58]Erupting from the mouth of god Rising from the ashes like [03:40.77]A speckled bird Splayed against the mosaic sky [03:49.60]Oh clouds around We created the zero [04:02.30]But we mean nothing to you You would believe [04:12.56]That we are just some mystical tale We are just a swollen belly [04:23.06]That gave birth to Sinbad Scheherazade We gave birth [04:32.01]Oh oh to the zero The perfect number [04:42.63]We invented the zero And we mean nothing to you [04:47.32]Our children run through the streets [04:54.00]And you sent your flames Your shooting stars [04:58.79]Shock and awe Shock and awe [05:03.12]Like some some Imagined warrior production [05:17.01]Twenty-first century No chivalry involved [05:25.44]No Bushido [05:47.01]Oh the code of the West Long gone [05:52.09]Never been Where does it lie [06:01.01]You came you came Through the west [06:04.61]Annihilated a people And you come to us [06:12.70]But we are older than you You come you wanna [06:20.07]You wanna come and rob the cradle [06:25.12]Of civilization And you read yet you read [06:32.68]You read Genesis You read of the tree [06:35.62]You read of the tree Beget by god [06:40.52]That raised its branches into the sky Every branch of knowledge [06:46.82]Of the cradle of civilization [06:49.16]Of the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates [06:53.78]Oh in Mesopotamia Aloofness ran deep [06:59.93]The face of Eve turning What sky did she see [07:14.24]What garden beneath her feet The one you drill [07:23.17]You drill Pulling the blood of the earth [07:28.30]Little droplets of oil for bracelets Little jewels [07:35.98]Sapphires You make bracelets [07:40.76]Round your own world We are weeping tears [07:46.55]Rubies We offer them to you [07:50.71]We are just Your Arabian nightmare [07:56.34]We invented the zero But we mean nothing to you [08:04.02]Your Arabian nightmare [08:36.75]City of stars City of scholarship [08:42.72]Science City of ideas [08:49.40]City of light City [08:53.66]City of ashes That the great Caliph [09:00.69]Walked through His naked feet formed a circle [09:06.79]And they built a city A perfect city of Baghdad [09:13.63]In the realm of peace And all the world revolved [09:19.53]And they invented And they mean nothing to you [09:29.29]Nothing to you Nothing [09:45.09]Go to sleep Go to sleep my child [09:49.01]Go to sleep And I'll sing you a lullaby [09:52.57]A lullaby for our city A lullaby of Baghdad [09:57.31]Go to sleep Sleep my child [10:00.74]Sleep Sleep [10:03.75]Run Run [10:24.70]You sent your lights Your bombs [10:28.01]You sent them down on our city Shock and awe [10:31.25]Like some crazy t v show [11:04.26]They're robbing the cradle of civilization [11:11.76]They're robbing the cradle of civilization [11:19.19]They're robbing the cradle of civilization [11:51.55]Suffer not The paralysis of your neighbor [12:00.59]Suffer not But extend your hand