_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ebm _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _
Dm _ .
We've been
Gm driving _ around
Dm From one
Gm end of this town
Bb to the _ other.
C And back _
Bb But no one's
F ever
Bb seen us.
_
F _
Bb _ .
Driving
Am our
C economy And _ _
A no one's ever heard of our
E band.
We're the
D _ _ .
_ _
Em _
D Mesopotamians _
G Sargon,
D Hammurabi, _
Em Ashurbanipal,
D and Gilgamesh.
And they
Bm wouldn't understand a
Em word we say So we'll
Gm scratch it all down into
Gbm the grave.
Half
B believing there will sometime
C come a day Someone gives
A a damn.
Maybe we're in the concrete, as chrome appears in the sand.
G We're the
D _ _ .
_ _ _ Mesopotamians _
G Sargon,
D Hammurabi,
Em _ Ashurbanipal, and _
D _ .
Gilgamesh.
_ _ _ _
Dm The Mesopotamish sun is
Gm beating _ down
Dm And making cracks in the
Gm ground.
But
Bb there's nowhere
C else to _ stand
Bb In _ Mesopotamia.
_
A No one's ever
Bb seen us The kingdom where
Am we
C secretly reign.
And no one's ever heard
A of our band The land where the indigenous live.
_ _ _
D _ _ .
Gbm _
G As the
D Mesopotamians
G Sargon, _ .
D Hammurabi,
Em Ashurbanipal,
A and
D Gilgamesh.
This is my
Bm last stick of gum
Em I'm gonna cut it up so
Gm everybody else gets
Gbm some.
Except for
B Ashurbanipal who says my
C haircut Makes me look
A like a Mohenjo _ -Daron.
_ Hey Ashurbanipal, I'm a _ _ .
_ _
Em _ Mesopotamian
G Sargon,
D Hammurabi, _
Em _ Ashurbanipal, and _
D _ _ .
A _ _ Gilgamesh.
We're the
D _ _ .
_ _
Em _
D Mesopotamians
G Sargon,
D Hammurabi, _
Em Ashurbanipal, and
A _ _ .
Gilgamesh.
_ Hey
G man, I thought that you were dead
C I thought you'd rat your car.
_
E No,
Em you're not
A dead I've been here this whole
E time playing bass
A _ _ _ guitar.
We're the _ _ _ _
D _ _ .
Mesopotamians
Em _ _
D _ _
G _ .
D Sargon, _
Em _
A Hammurabi, _
D Ashurbanipal.
_ _ _ _ _ _
G _ .
D Sargon,
Em Hammurabi, _ Ashurbanipal,
A and _ _ _ Gilgamesh.
We're the _
D _ _ .
A _ _
Bm Mesopotamians
A _
G Sargon,
D Hammurabi, _
Em _ _
A Ashurbanipal,
D and _ Gilgamesh _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _
N _ _ .