“Genghis Khan” is a song by Nico released on both versions of her fifth album, being track one on Drama of Exile and track four on the re-recorded The Drama of Exile.
The song depicts the legendary episode of emperor Genghis Khan’s burial, the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, late...
[Hook]
I have come to lie with you
I have come to die with you
[Verse]
On your padded shoulder and your golden chest
In a wilderness of glass we rest
And all the flowers they are our words and my chances follow dances
Into a storm afraid
A sweet and bitter rest he gets
A sweet and bitter rest he gets
[Hook]
I have come to lie with you
I have come to die with you
Genghis Khan was written by Nico.
Genghis Khan was produced by Philippe Quilichini.