The song “Babylon” is a meditation on leaving home, having success, and coming to appreciate what you had only in hindsight. The chorus turns on the realization: “You never knew that it was Babylon ’til it was gone.”For many PaleoJudaica posts on the archaeology, history, and legends of ancient Babylon, see here and links, here, here, and here and links.
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