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Cradle Of Civilisation Lyrics

Cradle Of Civilisation by Lowkey

Cradle Of Civilisation Lyrics

Year of Release: 2011
Intro
    • If my mother got angry or frustrated with me, she'd say..."oh, esh ked heluwa el hurriya"
    • ...and the basic translation of that is "Oh,how beautiful is freedom"
    • But where is freedom
    • Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
    • Where is our freedom?
Hook
    • Oh, esh ked heluwa el hurriya
Verse 1
    • This is for Baghdad, the place of my mothers birth
    • The cradle of civilization, for what it’s worth
    • The land I’ve never seen, culture I’ve never known
    • Iraq is in my heart, my blood, my flesh and bones
    • The air I’ve never breathed, fragrance I’ve never smelt
    • The pride I never had, the nationality that I never felt
    • Saddam was bad, are the American’s even more so?
    • They made me groan like I was missing part of my torso
    • But I never picked up a grenade in my garden
    • I never saw people I love die starving
    • I never saw my family die through many years of sanctions
    • While the ruler’s family lived in palaces and mansions
    • Never had a family member kidnapped for a ransom
    • Never lost a friend to violence that was random
    • Bombings, occupation, torture, intimidation
    • A million dead people doesn’t equal liberation
    • Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
    • Listen!
    • Where is our freedom?
Hook
    • Oh, esh ked heluwa el hurriya
Verse 2
    • Forget division based on ethnicity or religion
    • Whether you Sunni, Shia, Kurdish or Christian
    • Pain is still pain if you’re a person that’s missing
    • We all deserve a life in this earth that we live in
    • Is there enough words that can say
    • How deeply Baghdad is burnin' today
    • And it’s not about pity, hands out or sympathy
    • It’s about pride, respect, honour and dignity
    • Babies being born with deformities from uranium
    • Those babies aren’t just Iraqi, they’re Mesopotamian
    • What I view on the news is making me shiver
    • Cause I look at the victims and see the same face in the mirror
    • This system of division makes it harder for you and me
    • Peace is a question, the only answer is unity
    • So many dreams about this place that I’ve never seen
    • The place my family had to leave in the 70’s
    • Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
    • Where is our freedom?
Hook
    • Oh, esh ked heluwa el hurriya
Verse 3
    • It rains white phosphorus in Fallujah
    • This is for those that won’t live to see the future
    • Sorry that I wasn’t there, Sorry that I couldn’t help
    • I’m sorry for every tear, Sorry you’ve been put through hell
    • Still I feel like an immigrant, Englishman amongst Arabs and an Arab amongst Englishmen
    • Like I said they never gave me the culture
    • But they did give me Kubdad Haleb,Hakaka and Dolma
    • Ana isme Kareem
    • Wa ohmre thalatha wa-’ishrun
    • Umi min Baghdad, wa abuya min Dover
    • And that’s the combination that I carry on my shoulders
    • Still I rep, till my death, till they kill and steal my flesh
    • From now all the way back to Gilgamesh
    • Such a villianized and criticized nation
    • You will always be the cradle of civilization
    • Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
    • Where is our freedom?
Hook
  • In my sleep, in my dreams Motherland I can still feel you calling me
  • In my sleep, in my dreams Motherland I can still feel you calling me
  • In my sleep, in my dreams Motherland I can still feel you calling me
  • I can still feel you calling me
  • I can still feel you calling me

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