Write your new Iraqi national anthemn

[RandySpears]

I have in mind a little excercise in political satire. Lazy as I am I’ll start out by just submitting to you these funky fresh lyrics by my fellow Swedes, The Cardigans.

So let’s spice up the rules: write your own anthemn or suggest something appropriate that is already in existance.

You’re the storm

Oh it’s healing bang bang bang
I can hear your cannons call
You’ve been aiming at my land
You’re hungry hammer’s falling
And if you want me I’m you’re country

I’m an angel bored liked hell
and you’re a devil meaning well
You steal my lines and you strike me down
Come raise your flag upon me
And if you want me I’m your country
If you win me I’m forever
Oh Yeah

'Cos you’re the storm that I believed in
and all this peace has been deceiving
I like the sweet life and the silence
But it’s the storm that I believe in

Come and conquer and drop your bombs
cross my borders and kill the calm
Bear your fangs and burn my wings
I hear bullets singing
and if you want me I’m your country
If you win me I’m forever
Oh Yeah

'Cos you’re the storm that I believed in
and all this peace has been deceiving
I need some wind to get me sailing
So it’s the storm that I believe in

You feed my heart you keep me breathing
'Cos you’re the storm that I believed in
And if you want me I’m your country

Ah, the zeitgeist of 2003!

[RandySpears]

Oops. I missed the sticky on lyrics copyrights. I have reported the OP to the mods; I’ll have another go after the weekend