Trapped In Trabzon Blues Lyrics

Well, trekking up to Trabzon

Tryna get my Silk Road on

Russian guns booming doom

Leveled flat Erzurum

Machine guns rap and rake

Enver Pascha's last mistake

Wish I had the Dardanelles

Instead of this living hell

Caucasian campaigns

Destined to fail again

Frozen in the mountain pass

Every breath feels like my last

Cossack's battle cry

Do I flee or stand and die?

Welcome and fit to die

No one left to hold the line

The morning, no warning

Cloud of gas is forming

Is it necessary?

I ain't no Janissary

It's evil, we're people

But I guess this way is cheaper

Is it necessary?

I still have a family

Trapped in Trabzon blues

Trapped on down in Trabzon

Tryna get my red fez on

It's all that I got left

Cuz discussions with the Russians

Came and went

British, French and Arabs too

Even the Kurds are coming for you

Lawrence of Arabia

Out here fucking it up

The first of many Arab springs

Freedom from Turkish kings

Sultan days have long passed

The people speak as one at last

Rally to Ataturk

Every man to the earthworks

Defenders of Gallipoli

Take up arms and set us free

The morning, no warning

Cloud of gas is forming

Is it necessary?

I ain't no Janissary

It's evil, we're people

But I guess this way is cheaper

Is it necessary?

I still have a family

Trapped in Trabzon blues