Middle East Songtext
von Jerry Joseph

Put in on paper baby, you make it plain to see
Treaties and testaments and books of poetry
I can′t read
What can I do for you, what can you do for me
Hard to negotiate when we're both on our knees
I still plead
I ain′t your olive branch
I ain't your Prince of Peace
Look into my eyes and you'll see
The Middle East
I am not searching for my place in history
I′m growing tired and bored of the antiquity
I don′t need
The ones I love the most


The ones I love the least
Look into my eyes and you'll see
The Middle East
Go tell it on the mountain, Go throw it in the sea
See the ditch in the valley that they′re digging for me
Is this Damascus Road, The Sword of Damocles?
Suffer if you stay, suffer if you leave
I see the thunder clouds, I hear the cannons roar
You're rubbing empathy into an open sore
I still bleed
There is no beauty here
We′re sleeping with the beast
Look into his eyes and you'll see
It′s the Middle East