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Persepolis

Release date: 2013

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"Persepolis" is a track by Habibi, from the album Habibi, released 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

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Persepolis

[Verse 1]

He lived verse for verse, he never read words, he always memorized

He grew lemon trees from which he would breed yellow canary birds

He smoked his red rocks, he never listened to clocks, he was a visionary

He wore a true Gypsy's badge from a different land

He was a prophet of mine

[Refrain]

Persepolis he was his own police, he was a prophet of mine

Persepolis he was his own police, he was a prophet of mine

[Verse 2]

He raised eight soldiers young, he watched his life come undone, his courage bright as a sun

He had eyes that could sing, he had my daddy in spring, he was a warm hearted man

He laid side by side the love of his life until the day he died

He held me real tight and then he knighted a knight, he was prophet of mine

[Refrain]

Persepolis he was his own police, he was a prophet of mine

Persepolis he was his own police, he was a prophet of mine

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From Habibi

2013
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1st February 2012
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2013
  1. —I Got the Moves
  2. —Detroit Baby
  3. —Siin
  4. —Let Me In
  5. —Sunsets
  6. —Wrong To The Right People
  7. —Sweetest Talk
  8. —Persepolis
  9. —Far From Right
  10. —She Comes Along
  11. —Tomboy

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