[00:00:00] Radio Baghdad - Patti Smith (帕蒂·史密斯) [00:00:08] (Smith/Ray) [00:00:32] Suffer not Your neighbor's affliction [00:00:37] Suffer not Your neighbor's paralysis [00:00:43] But extend your hand Extend your hand [00:00:52] Lest you vanish in the city And be but a trace [00:00:59] Just a vanished ghost And your legacy [00:01:05] All the things you knew Science mathematics thought [00:01:15] Severely weakened Like irrigation systems [00:01:22] In the tired veins forming From the Tigris and Euphrates [00:01:29] In the realm of peace All the world revolved [00:01:34] All the world revolved Around a perfect circle [00:01:38] City of Baghdad City of scholars [00:01:43] Empirical humble Center of the world [00:01:48] City in ashes City of Baghdad [00:01:53] City of Baghdad Abrasive aloof [00:02:27] Oh in Mesopotamia Aloofness ran deep [00:02:38] Deep in the veins of the great rivers [00:02:45] That form the base Of Eden [00:02:50] And the tree The tree of knowledge [00:02:55] Held up its arms To the sky [00:02:59] All the branches of knowledge All the branches of knowledge [00:03:05] Cradling Cradling [00:03:13] Civilization In the realm of peace [00:03:20] All the world revolved Around a perfect circle [00:03:26] Oh Baghdad Center of the world [00:03:30] City of ashes With its great mosques [00:03:35] Erupting from the mouth of god Rising from the ashes like [00:03:40] A speckled bird Splayed against the mosaic sky [00:03:49] Oh clouds around We created the zero [00:04:02] But we mean nothing to you You would believe [00:04:12] That we are just some mystical tale We are just a swollen belly [00:04:23] That gave birth to Sinbad Scheherazade We gave birth [00:04:32] Oh oh to the zero The perfect number [00:04:42] We invented the zero And we mean nothing to you [00:04:47] Our children run through the streets [00:04:54] And you sent your flames Your shooting stars [00:04:58] Shock and awe Shock and awe [00:05:03] Like some some Imagined warrior production [00:05:17] Twenty-first century No chivalry involved [00:05:25] No Bushido [00:05:47] Oh the code of the West Long gone [00:05:52] Never been Where does it lie [00:06:01] You came you came Through the west [00:06:04] Annihilated a people And you come to us [00:06:12] But we are older than you You come you wanna [00:06:20] You wanna come and rob the cradle [00:06:25] Of civilization And you read yet you read [00:06:32] You read Genesis You read of the tree [00:06:35] You read of the tree Beget by god [00:06:40] That raised its branches into the sky Every branch of knowledge [00:06:46] Of the cradle of civilization [00:06:49] Of the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates [00:06:53] Oh in Mesopotamia Aloofness ran deep [00:06:59] The face of Eve turning What sky did she see [00:07:14] What garden beneath her feet The one you drill [00:07:23] You drill Pulling the blood of the earth [00:07:28] Little droplets of oil for bracelets Little jewels [00:07:35] Sapphires You make bracelets [00:07:40] Round your own world We are weeping tears [00:07:46] Rubies We offer them to you [00:07:50] We are just Your Arabian nightmare [00:07:56] We invented the zero But we mean nothing to you [00:08:04] Your Arabian nightmare [00:08:36] City of stars City of scholarship [00:08:42] Science City of ideas [00:08:49] City of light City [00:08:53] City of ashes That the great Caliph [00:09:00] Walked through His naked feet formed a circle [00:09:06] And they built a city A perfect city of Baghdad [00:09:13] In the realm of peace And all the world revolved [00:09:19] And they invented And they mean nothing to you [00:09:29] Nothing to you Nothing [00:09:45] Go to sleep Go to sleep my child [00:09:49] Go to sleep And I'll sing you a lullaby [00:09:52] A lullaby for our city A lullaby of Baghdad [00:09:57] Go to sleep Sleep my child [00:10:00] Sleep Sleep [00:10:03] Run Run [00:10:24] You sent your lights Your bombs [00:10:28] You sent them down on our city Shock and awe [00:10:31] Like some crazy t v show [00:11:04] They're robbing the cradle of civilization [00:11:11] They're robbing the cradle of civilization