Manhattan Kaboul

Little Puerto Rican, well integrated almost New Yorker
In my all glass and steel building
I take my job, a line of coke, a coffee

Little Afghan girl, on the other side of the earth
Never heard of Manhattan
My daily life is misery and war

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Shattered, on the altar, of eternal violence

A 747 exploded in my windows
My sky so blue turned stormy
When the bombs razed my village

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Shattered, on the altar, of eternal violence

So long, farewell my American dream
Me, never again a slave to the dogs
They imposed on you the Islam of tyrants
Have they ever read the Quran?

I've become dust again
I won't be master of the universe
Could this country I loved so much
Ultimately be a colossus with feet of clay?

The gods, the religions
The wars of civilization
The weapons, the flags, the homelands, the nations
Always make us cannon fodder

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Shattered, on the altar, of eternal violence

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Shattered, on the altar, of eternal violence