"Hisab-e-Koh" / The Mountain's Count

[Verse 1] December seventy-nine, snow on the pass I watched from the koh with my gusfand 115,000 in the valley, boots on our land 620,000 would come and go, ten years in sand [Verse 2] They counted 14,453 of theirs who never returned 9,511 in combat, 2,386 from wounds, 2,556 from sickness and road 53,753 wounded, 264 missing in the snow They lost 147 tanks, 451 birds - 333 helicopters low [Chorus] Oh watan, oh watan, what did we see? From 13.4 million to 11.8 in a decade Oh watan, oh watan, counting in the hills [Verse 3] 58,000 of the DRA army, 116,000 wounded too 75 to 90,000 mujahideen on the mountain blue And the people - they say 562,000 to 2 million gone We say one million, some say three, the high pastures know [Verse 4] Ermacora wrote in '85, nine months alone 32,755 civilians, 1,834 houses turned to stone 74 villages erased, 3,308 animals lost More than half our villages became ghost towns from the cost [Bridge - slow, rubab solo] Five million fled - to Pakistan, to Iran One third of us, half the world's refugees then Two million more walking inside their own land And butterflies in the fields, mines that still sleep in the sand [Final Chorus - soft] I am still here with my flock on the koh December to February, ten years, one month, three weeks gone I count my sheep, I count the years And sing the numbers so we remember, so we remember