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Arabian Nights Lyrics

Artist: Siouxsie And The Banshees
Album: Juju

The jewel, the prize
looking into your eyes
Cool pools drown your mind
What else will you find

I hear a rumour-it was just a rumour
I heard a rumour-what have you done to her

Myriad lights-they said I'd be impressed Arabian Knights-at your primitive best

A tourist oasis-reflects in seedy sunshades a monstrous oil tanker
it's wound bleeding in seas

I heard a rumour-what have you done to her I heard a rumour-what have you done to her

Veiled behind screens
kept as your baby machine
Whilst you conquer more orifices
Of boys, goats and things
Ripped out sheeps eyes-no forks or knives

Myriad lights-they said I'd be impressed Arabian Knights-at your primitive best

Comments/Interpretations

by Daphne on 4/10/2009 7:16am
Awesome song.

by Molly on 8/3/2009 6:52pm
Love the atmosphere of this song. And the "Kept as your baby machine/whilst you conquer more orifices" lyric.

by Izzy on 11/14/2009 8:47pm
Siouxsie's voice is beutiful. This particular song reminds me of a lullaby

by GAYIA on 12/9/2010 9:37pm
arabian knights ce sont les chevaliers d'Arabie non? ça me penser à Lawrence d'Arabie c'est génial

by Astroboy on 1/13/2011 8:11am
Not knights, but nights (as in 1001 nights). However, I think the song is more a critique of Arab culture as imagined by Siouxie back in 1980; a culture where many wives are kept in a harem while the men are supposedly out f**king anything with a hole. A "primitive" view, IMHO.

by Edward on 4/25/2011 1:40pm
No the name of the song is "Arabian Knights" not nights.

by Insomniac on 9/24/2011 9:24am
This song is partly about Female Circumsision,a gruesome rite of passasge STILL done today.

by amy! on 9/28/2011 8:35am
stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid song!! it fucks!!

by Canuck on 1/7/2012 8:15pm
Keep your Gagas and Biebers... THIS is music.

by spinachcharm on 1/21/2012 12:07pm
agree with Astroboy. Definitely some massive racial stereotyping going on. Christ, I live in Bromley, I can sympathise with Siouxsie, growing up here can't have given her a very rounded world view. Female circumcision is a nice theory, would look better for Siouxsie but there's no evidence for that in the lyrics.

by Hell Boy on 8/5/2012 2:15am
Fuck you (amy) . this is a great song. punk you should go fuck youreself. this is one of the best songs i heard

by Betty Boop on 8/24/2012 9:13am
Awesome song. Nothing primitive about the view - had many friends fighting in the middle east and it is dead on about the men and their boys. So flippin' gross!

by BobbyJames on 12/2/2012 5:27pm
I love siouxsie.

by Johnstone on 5/10/2013 11:19pm
Astroboy I lived in Saudi Arabia in the 80s and women were kept veiled as they are now. Women cannot drive and must sit in a separate section at the back of the bus. The men did like little boys, at least some of them openly did. Lawrence of Arabia loved that aspect of the culture. Its not pretty but those are the facts.

by ruba' on 4/20/2014 11:19pm
A great song from an era when people still wrote lyrics that were intelligent, and took some thing about :P

by MF on 5/15/2014 8:24pm
I loved this song when I was a teenager and still like the music. Brings back great memories. But the lyrics definitely leave something to be desired and wouldn't be what I classify as "intelligent". More like overly simple and blatantly critical summing up Arab culture as primitive; women solely as veiled baby machines and the men as boy and goat fuckers. Ah the English. Ethnocentric, imperialist colonizers still looking down on what they don't get--even in the 1980's. Who's the barbarian?

by Dub to MF on 12/8/2014 11:08pm
Well, its based on facts. And Arabian culture has survived for a very long time. If you don't consider chopping off clitorises and making love to goats as primitive, then I don't know what to tell you. ha. Sure, obviously not all Arabians participate in this but you be surprised how alive these practices and their extreme views are, even today. Especially, in North African countries. Read some of the quran to better grasp their ideals.