[00:01.18]People throwing dinars at the belly-dancers
[00:12.30]In a sad circus by a trench of burning oil
[00:16.55]
[00:23.49]People throw belongings
[00:26.49]a lifetime's earnings
[00:29.18]Amongst the scattered rubbish
[00:31.62]and suitcases on the sidewalk
[00:37.12]
[00:46.24]Take palms and orange and tangerine trees
[00:52.62]With eyes that're crying for everything
[00:57.30]it burn! Let it burn, burn,
[01:01.30]
[01:08.80]So I talked to an old man by the generator
[01:19.58]He was standing on the gravel by the fetid river
[01:31.46]He turned to me and answered, "Baby, see."
[01:36.97]Said, "War is here in our apartment--let it sleep."
[01:48.15]
[01:53.96]So I jumped in at the riverhead
[01:56.84]and tried to swim away
[02:00.09]Through tons of sewage
[02:02.46]they had written on their foreheads
[02:05.65]Take palms and orange and tangerine trees
[02:11.40]With eyes that're crying for everything
[02:16.59]Let it burn, let it burn! .....