حلبچه / Halabja

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As implied by its title, this single was inspired by the horrific events that took place on March 16, 1988 in the Kurdish city of Halabja, Iraq during the final days of the Iran-Iraq war. The opening lyrics, "come and see", allude to director Elem Klimov's eponymous masterpiece, which captures the horrors of war with an unsettling and harrowing realism very few filmmakers have been able to capture. The lyrics "a silent city" are a nod to the stunningly beautiful collaboration album by the legendary Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider, whose title track also serves as a requiem for the events that took place on that dark day in Halabja.

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Come and see
Adam's nature
Absent pretense

Come and see
His base instinct
His true intent

Come and see
The wisdom of
Satan's defiance

Made in His image
Are the tanks
And the bombs

Made in His image
Are the slaughter
And the rape

Made in His image
Are the Tabun
And the Sarin
Filling the infant's lungs

"Freedom isn't free"
Chemical arms
Democracy's
Currency

Ghastly laughter
Envenomed skies
The mouth of hell
Opens wide

Scalding emerald
Spews from their throats
On baleful fumes
The newborns choke

The putrid stench
Of seething flesh
Bodies shrouded
In noxious death

Wailing mothers
Fading breath
A silent city
Stands bereft

As the children
Collapsed and writhed
With craven silence
The world replied

Their shrieks of fear
Their blinded eyes
The world complicit
Scorned their cries

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from حلبچه / Halabja, released November 6, 2020

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