The Mesopotamians
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We've been driving around
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From one end of this town to the other and back
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But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us)
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Driving our Econoline van (And no one's ever heard of our band)
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And no one's ever heard of our band
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We're the Mesopotamians
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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Then they wouldn't understand a word we say,
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So we'll scratch it all down into the clay
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Half believing there will sometime come a day
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Someone gives a damn
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Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand
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We're the Mesopotamians
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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The Mesopotam-ish sun is beating down
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And making cracks in the ground
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But there's nowhere else to stand
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In Mesopotamia, (No one's ever seen us)
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The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band)
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The land where we invisibly rule
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As the Mesopotamians
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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This is my last stick of gum
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I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some
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Except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-daroan
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Hey, Ashurbanipal,
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I'm a Mesopotamian
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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We're the Mesopotamians
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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"Hey, man, I thought that you were dead
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I thought you crashed your car"
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"No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar
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For the Mesopotamians"
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We're the Mesopotamians
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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We're the Mesopotamians
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Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
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The Mesopotamians
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