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 Sindbad      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 TV 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