Chalk in the riverbed
Was
deposited by the ocean as it boiled
off
Encased in calcium carbonate
We could
drown or we could solder
I climbed the ranks of militiamen
And the
Sadrites, and my parents felt a cautious
pride
And disregarded Shari’a Law
And put the
Tigris in a trench now
[Pre-Chorus]
Give us rain, give us rain, give us rain, give us
rain,
Give us rain, give us
rain, send us water
Send us trucks, send us trucks, send us trucks, send us
trucks,
Send us trucks, send us
tanks, send us IEDs
Send us planes, send us planes, send us planes, send us
planes,
Send us planes, send us
planes, is the sky clear enough?
Send us dust storms, woah-
Allahu Akbar
The sand has lowered the vitamin
Satu
ration point, put a straw under the bridge and
suck
We made a pact with the Arakeen
And we
built ourselves a filter
The city hydro’s undrinkable
Shattered
cinderblocks are their favorite things to talk a
bout
We saw your face in the Guardian
And it
raised the circulation
[Pre-Chorus]
Send us rain, please transmit
Please receive our dumb
prayers,
Telepath, send a
flood, send us an avalanche
Send us cold, send us ice, send us meteo
rites
Send us snow, send us
hail, send us high speed rail
We can pay, we should pay, we will pay, we
insist
No defaults but we
must get down to Chechnya
We defend, we fight back, we plant bombs under
tracks
We skip church, all the
monotheists
Sing: “Allahu Akbar!”
And the Inuit sang
And the
Zionists sang:
“A
llahu Akbar!”
And the economists sang
And the ast
ronomers sang
And the
anarchists sang:
“A
llahu Akbar!”
God is greatest!
God is greatest!
God is greatest!
“A
llahu Akbar!”
