"Hisab-e-Do Watan (2001-2021) Count of Two Homelands. ,

[Verse 1] October oh-one to August twenty-one, twenty years in dust 2,459 of yours gone, 1,922 in fight, 20,769 wounded must From 2003 to 2011 in Iraq's plain 4,404 gone, 31,827 wounded, 4,419 total in that name [Verse 2] 7,057 American soldiers, 8,189 contractors beside 14,880 allied, and 301,000 fighters on the other side On our side of the hills, the counting is slow 46,000 in Afghanistan, 300,000 in Iraq they say low [Chorus] Ya watan, ya watan, how do we count? 184 to 207 thousand in Iraq alone, 70 thousand here Oh watan, oh watan, the ledger is long [Verse 3] Iraq Body Count wrote 157,531, some say 103,775 at least 940,000 direct dead, 432,000 civilians in the east With hunger and ruin, 4.5 million more unseen I count my sheep, you count yours, across the same ravine [Bridge] 14.5 million moved from just these two lands 37 million across all wars, 38 million with empty hands From Kabul to Basra, the shepherds still stand Watching roads full of people, not flocks, leaving sand [Outro] From the koh to the desert, same wind, same song Two decades, two countries, numbers too long