We've been driving around   From one end of this town to the other and back   But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us)   Driving our Econoline van (And no one's ever heard of our band)   And no one's ever heard of our band      We're the Mesopotamians   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh      Then they wouldn't understand a word we say,   So we'll scratch it all down into the clay   Half believing there will sometime come a day   Someone gives a damn   Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand      We're the Mesopotamians   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh      The Mesopotam-ish sun is beating down   And making cracks in the ground   But there's nowhere else to stand   In Mesopotamia, (No one's ever seen us)   The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band)   The land where we invisibly rule      As the Mesopotamians   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh      This is my last stick of gum   I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some   Except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-daroan      Hey, Ashurbanipal,   I'm a Mesopotamian   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh      We're the Mesopotamians   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh      "Hey, man, I thought that you were dead   I thought you crashed your car"   "No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar   For the Mesopotamians"      We're the Mesopotamians   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh      We're the Mesopotamians   Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh