Mesopotamia ©James Gordon 2003

from “Endomusia” on Borealis Records

 

They say we owe

all that we know

to the sons and to the daughters

Of those who were born

along the ancient shores

of the Euphrates' graceful waters.

The sail and the wheel,

The first farmer's fields.

Poetry and song were first heard here.

From that river's irrigation,

The cradle of civilization.

But tonight it is a river of tears

 

Rock-a-bye

The wind blows cold tonight

The bough is broken and the cradle falls

And a part of us all

Is lost in that fiery ball

In Mesopotamia....

 

It was there that mankind

First saw the signs

That they could use their brains not just their brawn

But if you look at the state

Of the world they helped create,

You'd wonder if those days are now gone.

Where the knowledge we found,

Was first written down,

But for all that what have we really learned?

We're erasing those pages,

Returning them to the dark ages

Tonight Mesopotamia burns

 

Repeat Chorus twice