Lyrics
Forty years since the Mexico sun hit the pitch side
Now the satellite flickers in a Karrada night
From the shisha smoke in Stockholm to a screen in the States
We been living on replays, crossing off the damn dates
White kit so clean, it's a promise, it's a vow
Red stripe like a scar 'cross the jersey right now
They wrote us off, yeah, they left us for the archives' dust
My pops saw '86, he told me, "Son, in Casas we trust."
[Chorus]
WHITE! BLACK! RED ON THE CHEST!
LIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA, PASS THE TEST!
TWENTY-SIX ON THE CLOCK, LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW!
AL-ASAD IS BACK, IT'S THE IRAQ SHOW!
[Verse 2]
This ain't tiki-taka, this that Tigris river flow
Park the bus on 'em, low block, then we watch the seed grow
Box-to-box engine, watch Al-Hamadi go press
Send the long ball to Aymen, leave the backline a mess
Let Mbappé run, let Senegal see the sign
This a forty-year gegenpress on the halfway line
Feel the Jersey City cold, we comin' straight for MetLife
For every uncle who missed it, for every diaspora life.
[Chorus]
WHITE! BLACK! RED ON THE CHEST!
LIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA, PASS THE TEST!
TWENTY-SIX ON THE CLOCK, LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW!
AL-ASAD IS BACK, IT'S THE IRAQ SHOW!
[Bridge]
(Beat switches to a hard, half-time stomp)
Ninety minutes ain't enough, this is history's debt
The final whistle's coming, but it hasn't called it yet
For the generation born far from the palm tree's shade
This is more than a game, this is the comeback we made.
[Outro]
ASAD! ASAD!
(IRAQ! IRAQ!)
About AL-ASAD 10
Laith was a promising #10 in Baghdad's Al-Zawraa SC football academy until a career-ending injury at 18. Instead of leaving the game, he picked up a mic. As AL-ASAD 10, he makes cosmopolitan-trap anthems as the ultimate commentator, turning tactics into metaphors and every match into a chapter of a 40-year-long story. This is the soundtrack for the Lions of Mesopotamia's return to the World Cup…
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