Since I try to keep things fun around here, even though it doesn’t seem like it at first glance (I wrote about asphalt!), I thought I’d use a fun song to introduce a mini-series of posts that will elaborate on what this song, “The Mesopotamians” by They Might Be Giants, is about…
Actually, I should say I will be elaborating on who this song is about, because the day has come when someone gives a damn!
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh had plenty scratched down onto the clay about them in the kingdoms where they not-so-secretly reigned, and I’ve taken it upon myself to relay all the highlights of what was written to you.
To get you started, you can find the song’s lyrics here, and a general (and very enthusiastic) analysis of those lyrics here.
Stay tuned! (And sorry about getting the song stuck in your head. That’s tough.)
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