Robert Wyatt - Gharbzadegi

It's so easy to decide on a name
it's a name caller's game
It's so easy to look down from above
Helicopter vision
Get the picture when you're outside the frame
Retrospective my eye
Call it art and you can say what you like
it's a name caller's game
Your perspective describes where I stand
Out of line, out of mind
Calling myopia 'focus', of course,
makes it easier still
Gharbzadegi means nothing to me
Westernitis to you
...We get so out of touch Words
take the place of meaning
It's so easy to decide on a name
it's a name caller's game
It's so easy to look down from above
Helicopter vision
Get the picture when you're outside the frame
Retrospective my eye
Call it art and you can say what you like
it's a name caller's game
Your perspective describes where I stand
Out of line, out of mind
Calling myopia 'focus', of course,
makes it easier still
Gharbzadegi means nothing to me
Westernitis to you
...We get so out of touch Words
take the place of meaning
Robert Wyatt - Gharbzadegi

Robert Wyatt, Old Rottenhat [Rough Trade, 1985]

Robert Wyatt performing "Gharbadzegi"

Robert Wyatt performing "Gharbadzegi"

Robert Wyatt "Gharbzadegi"

Video clips courtesy of Ray Bradbury's Theater episode "Let's play Poison."

Robert Wyatt - Gharbzadegi

I'vegotan'atbutitain'tlikethat, oooooooooooooooooold rotten'at.

Gharbzadegi - Mop Meuchiine

From the album Mop Meuchiine Plays Robert Wyatt (Le Chant du Monde 2010)

Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt