"Empires" is a song by the late Omani artist Lamya

Lamya

Lamya Al-Mugheiry , better known as her mononym Layma was a Kenyan-born British female R&B and dance music singer, She was born in Kenya and was of Omani descent and raised in Sheffield, United Kingdom...

. It was released in 2002. It was the first single taken from her first album Learning From Falling.

It is based on a poem The Coming American, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the American acquisition of the state of California

California

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, by American librarian and poet Samuel Walter Foss

Sam Walter Foss

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.

A remix of the song reached #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.

Track listing

CD single (Europe)

1. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Radio edit) − 3:42
2. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Sander Kleinenberg Audio Paranoid Mix) − 8:42

CD single (Europe)

1. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Radio edit) − 3:42
2. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Sander Kleinenberg Audio Paranoid Mix) − 8:42
3. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Bent Mix) − 6:59
4. Empires (Bring Me Men) (video) − 3:42

Vinyl 12" (USA)

1. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Widelife Main Room Tribal Mix) − 9:17
2. Empires (Bring Me Men) (That Kid Chris Remix) − 8:56

Vinyl 12" (USA)

1. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Sander Kleinenberg Audio Paranoid Club Mix) − 8:36
2. Empires (Bring Me Men) (That Kid Chris Mix) − 8:56
3. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Junior Vasquez
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    "Bring Me Men" Anthem Mix) − 9:59
4. Empires (Bring Me Men) (Illicit Siren Mix) − 8:55