Lyrics
[Verse 1] Two rivers running through the cradle of the earth
Sumer soil and the weight of my birth
Cuneiform scratches on the tablet yeah that's my ledger
Cross the Euphrates with the crown between my fingers
Mud brick towers reaching up past the clouds
City of Ur got me walking through the crowd
Lugal on my shoulder like a stone I carry steady
Gilgamesh ghost tellin me I'm already ready
[Pre-Chorus] Clay in my hands
Dust in my veins
Five thousand years
I'm still carrying the flame
[Chorus] Mesopotamia
Where the gods walk with me
Tigris flow like venom
Twelve gates to history
Mesopotamia
King of the valley floor
Every footprint I leave
Is a legend at my door
[Verse 2] Ziggurat stairs I climb nobody holding me back
Babylon walls knowing I'm the one that attacks
Hanging gardens blooming out the cracks in the sand
Hammurabi code written by my own hand
Enkidu in the shadows stepping silent like a blade
I been making war before they ever made the grade
Akkadian tongue sharper than the bronze in my grip
Seven kings before me I'm the one that they whip
[Pre-Chorus] Clay in my hands
Dust in my veins
Sargon's shadow
Running through my chains
[Chorus] Mesopotamia
Where the gods walk with me
Tigris flow like venom
Twelve gates to history
Mesopotamia
King of the valley floor
Every footprint I leave
Is a legend at my door
[Bridge] Tablets read my name
When the mud brick crumbles
I'm the first flame
Throne above the rubble
Eridu to Nineveh
I'm writing my own fate
Cradle rocks but
The empire won't wait
[Chorus] Mesopotamia
Where the gods walk with me
Tigris flow like venom
Twelve gates to history
Mesopotamia
King of the valley floor
Every footprint I leave
Is a legend at my door
[Verse 3] Nebuchadnezzar blood in the family line
Every brick in these walls got a story of mine
Assyrian war chariots rolling through the gate
I don't negotiate I just decide your fate
Ishtar gate painted like a lion in the frame
Akkad to the north and I put respect on the name
Scribes in the temple keeping record of the rise
Every word that I speak got a god in the sky
Ashurbanipal library stacked to the ceiling
You was never in the room when the empire was building
Uruk in my rearview Nimrud on my chest
I ain't asking for the throne I'm just taking what's left
[Pre-Chorus] Reed in the marsh
Blood in the clay
Enlil in my ear
Telling me to stay
[Chorus] Mesopotamia
Where the gods walk with me
Tigris flow like venom
Twelve gates to history
Mesopotamia
King of the valley floor
Every footprint I leave
Is a legend at my door
[Post-Chorus] Whoa-oh-oh
King of the valley floor
Whoa-oh-oh
Legend at my door
[Verse 4] Tell me who gon stop a man that was born in the silt
Fifty centuries deep and I'm still in the build
Code of Ur-Nammu written down before your law
You was copying the homework you ain't see the flaw
Lamassu at my doorway wings spread on the stone
Half man half beast and I stand on my own
Sumerian king list got my name in the scroll
Every era that pass I'm still taking control
Inanna in the evening star watching the plain
I don't pray for the rain I command it to came
Chaldean astronomers reading fate in the sky
They was studying the heavens while you wonderin why
[Pre-Chorus] Bitumen bound
Ziggurat tall
When the flood come through
I'm still standing tall
[Chorus] Mesopotamia
Where the gods walk with me
Tigris flow like venom
Twelve gates to history
Mesopotamia
King of the valley floor
Every footprint I leave
Is a legend at my door
[Post-Chorus] Whoa-oh-oh
King of the valley floor
Whoa-oh-oh
Legend at my door