Patti Smith - Where Duty Calls lyrics

In a room in Lebanon

they silently slept

They were dreaming crazy dreams

in foreign alphabet

Lucky young boys

cross on the main

The driver was approaching

the American zone

The waving of hands

The tiniest train

They never dreamed

they'd never wake again

Voice of the Swarm

We follow we fall

Some kneel for priests

Some wail at walls

Flag on a match head

God or the law

And they'll all go together

Where duty calls

United children

Child of Iran

Parallel prayers

Baseball Koran

I'll protect Mama

I'll lie awake

I'll die for Allah

In a holy war

I'll be a ranger

I'll guard the streams

I'll be a soldier

A sleeping Marine

Refrain

In the heart of the ancient

Ali smiles

In the soul of the desert

the sun blooms

Awake

into the glare of all out little wars

Who pray to return to salute

the coming and dying of the moon

Oh sleeping sun

Assassin in prayer

laid a compass deep

Exploding dawn

and himself as well

Their eyes for his eyes

Their breath for his breath

All to his end

And a room in Lebanon

Dust of scenes

Erase and blend

May the blanket of Kings

Cover them and him

Forgive them Father

They know not what they do

From the vast portals

of their consciousness

they're calling to you