Baghdad Crusade
Dean Omori
The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger.com
It's midnight at the oasis and nobody's here The light from the night fires makes everything look scared And a baby cries solo Nobody hears it but me God and fear I wake to find dreaming is all that I got Yesterday is over it's just a bullet hole in the head And there's no hallelujah The Baghdad café is dead The poets all broken their words told as lies The savants and the storytellers as quiet as they come This is no revolution They painted Sinbad on a bomb The trees of Babylon are burning This world is turning away From the Baghdad crusade The weight of my genius is more than I can bear Moved out of my mind sanctions bombs books and tears And there's blood in my eyes Ten tons of war today This once ancient city as delicate as prose Had its books burned by infidels piles of bodies on the side of roads And my epitaph unknown There'll be no going home The hospitals all broken from the policies of the world Are your prayers any stronger than the ones that we say And my quarrelsome cry No children were born today The trees of Babylon are burning And this world is turning away From the Baghdad crusade Walk libertine back streets no armoured cars can ride The city of peace all broken and bled I smell the souk rise The Baghdad café is dead The tortured and hunted and hopeless are freed To go fight a war bring home bountiful greed And they bomb us at night For your money we bleed They bomb us at night For your money we bleed The trees of Babylon are burning And this world is turning away From the Baghdad crusade
The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger.com
Citation
Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Baghdad Crusade Lyrics." Lyrics.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Jun 2024. <https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/14339369/Dean+Omori/Baghdad+Crusade>.
Discuss the Baghdad Crusade Lyrics with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In