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Patti Smith
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Suffer not your neighbor's affliction
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Suffer not your neighbor's paralysis
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But extend your hand, extend your hand
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Lest you vanish in the city and be but a trace
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Just a vanished ghost and your legacy
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All the things you knew, science, mathematics, thought
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Severely weakened like irrigation systems
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In the tired veins forming from the Tigris and Euphrates
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In the realm of peace, all the world revolved
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All the world revolved around a perfect circle
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City of Baghdad, city of scholars
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Empirical humble center of the world
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City in ashes, city of Baghdad
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City of Baghdad, abrasive aloof
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Oh, in Mesopotamia aloofness ran deep
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Deep in the veins of the great rivers
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That form the base of Eden
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And the tree the tree of knowledge
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Held up its arms to the sky
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All the branches of knowledge
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All the branches of knowledge, cradling, cradling
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Civilization in the realm of peace
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All the world revolved around a perfect circle
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Oh, Baghdad, center of the world
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City of ashes with its great mosques
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Erupting from the mouth of God, rising from the ashes
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Like a speckled bird, splayed against the mosaic sky
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Oh, clouds around, we created the zero
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But we mean nothing to you, you would believe
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That we are just some mystical tale
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We are just a swollen belly that gave birth to Sindbad
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Scheherazade, we gave birth
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Oh, oh, to the zero, the perfect number
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We invented the zero and we mean nothing to you
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Our children run through the streets
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And you sent your flames, your shooting stars
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Shock and awe, shock and awe
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Like some, some imagined warrior production
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Twenty-first century, no chivalry involved
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No Bushido
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Oh, the code of the West long gone
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Never been, where does it lie?
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You came, you came through the West
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Annihilated a people and you come to us
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But we are older than you, you come, you wanna
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You wanna come and rob the cradle
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Of civilization and you read, yet you read
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You read genesis, you read of the tree
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You read of the tree beget by God
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That raised its branches into the sky
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Every branch of knowledge
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Of the cradle of civilization
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Of the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates
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Oh, in Mesopotamia aloofness ran deep
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The face of Eve turning, what sky did she see
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What garden beneath her feet, the one you drill
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You drill pulling the blood of the earth
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Little droplets of oil for bracelets, little jewels
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Sapphires, you make bracelets
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Round your own world, we are weeping tears
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Rubies, we offer them to you
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We are just your Arabian nightmare
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We invented the zero but we mean nothing to you
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Your Arabian nightmare
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City of stars, city of scholarship
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Science city of ideas, city of light, city
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City of ashes that the great Caliph
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Walked through his naked feet formed a circle
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And they built a city, a perfect city of Baghdad
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In the realm of peace and all the world revolved
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And they invented and they mean nothing to you
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Nothing to you, nothing
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Go to sleep, go to sleep my child
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Go to sleep and I'll sing you a lullaby
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A lullaby for our city, a lullaby of Baghdad
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Go to sleep, sleep my child
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Sleep, sleep, run, run
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You sent your lights, your bombs
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You sent them down on our city, shock and awe
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Like some crazy TV show
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They're robbing the cradle of civilization
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They're robbing the cradle of civilization
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They're robbing the cradle of civilization
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Suffer not the paralysis of your neighbor
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Suffer not but extend your hand
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