Can someone post lyrics + translation of just the Arabic portion of Omar Offendum's song Destiny. Here's the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZqlTiqznU. It starts at about 30 seconds.
Shukran!
Can someone post lyrics + translation of just the Arabic portion of Omar Offendum's song Destiny. Here's the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZqlTiqznU. It starts at about 30 seconds.
Shukran!
Lool it's too fast for me, has anyone found the lyrics?
7amam el salam efta7i ajne7atiki w teeri
wain el wa3i wain
emsho ma3i hain
bain el jabaleen
3ain 7eb el tarafeen
2emahatna 7abet lsana
mo 3ajbet.hon masabatna
hayda el 7aki bain e5watna
zay el 3arab w el amreekan
w allah yer7am kel amwatna
w a3'ani metl umahatna
eza elna 3ain
el 3ain btsafa 3n 3yoon el sham
blad el sham
mn falasteen
la jbal lebnan
w abel ma e5tara3o el 7dood
mn skandar la kurdistan
5anoona wlad el 3am
....
You are my ...
(Destiny)
its hard livin in the West - when I know the East got the best of me ...
(Destiny)
could be lookin in my eyes - but you'll never really see the rest of me ...
(Destiny)
can you hear me "maseeri" (my destiny)? ... bi-lingual's what im blessed to be ...
(Destiny)
7amamet Salameh - ifta7ee ajni7atikee oo 6eeree
(dove of Peace - spread your wings & fly)
(English translation)
Consciousness? What consciousness - where is it?
Take a walk with me
Here - in this valley between two "mountains"
where the source of love for both "sides" can be found
our mothers like us - but dont like our foul language
so lets keep this between the siblings
the best of Arabs & Americans
and may God have mercy on all our dead
Songs i sing like the Mahatma ("aghani-d" means these songs ... which sounds like Ghandi & in turn relates to the next quote)
If we say 'an eye for an eye'
there wont be any eyes left in Sham
Bilad al-Sham (i.e. greater syria ... since "Sham" refers to Damascus ... but "bilad al-sham" means Greater Syria ... the distinction is made for the sake of unity across borders)
from Palestine to the mountains of Lebanon
before they made up these borders
from Iskandaroon to Kurdistan - understand?
Genghis Khan never deceived us quite like our "paternal cousins" (Khan also means deceive in arabic)
but our blood is their blood
children of Adam
who built their sins
upon our shoulders
we carried their burden
why?
God knows
but listen, this little firecracker & bicycle are better for you than 100 million guns - wanna know why?
because they dont like seeing you smile
but smile you will - in your human being
a young cultured/educated Arab male - give them your stamp of approval
and if they still dont accept you then remind them of the words of Elliye (Elliye Abi-Madhee is a famous Lebanese poet who wrote a poem that started with the following words)
"How soon a piece of dirt can forget that that is all he/she really is ... just dirt" (i.e. we are all from this earth & will come back to it ... so there is no logic in viewing yourself as better than someone else)
and that my friend is ...
our Destiny
Chorus:
You are my ...
(Destiny)
its hard livin in the West - when I know the East got the best of me ...
(Destiny)
could be lookin in my eyes - but you'll never really see the rest of me ...
(Destiny)
can you hear me "maseeri" (my destiny)? ... bi-lingual's what im blessed to be ...
(Destiny)
7amamet Salameh - ifta7ee ajni7atikee oo 6eeree
(dove of Peace - spread your wings & fly)
Verse 2:
i write right to left ...
you write left to right ...
metaphor of a foreigner's plight...
dressed to type...
stereo & a mic...
scenario of a fight...
the burial of a white...
imperial at his height's...
a Turkish Rapper's Delight
semetic etiquette might
just have you rollin your "R's"
poetic & light
and grab a hold of your sorrows
to relieve your tomorrows
make it easier to borrow
the aesthetics you bite
like all the Arabic loanwords
from Spaniards & Morros
the Karma of Inquisition
visions of horror
so who's the Explorer?
really was it Columbus?
Muhammad al-Idrisi or Alfaragnus
throw a Hobson Jobson
while you figure it out
im gonna start with a cipher
thats a "siffir" (zero) - no doubt
see you might not have learned to live with me
but sure as hell can't without
Chorus:
You are my ...
(Destiny)
its hard livin in the West - when I know the East got the best of me ...
(Destiny)
could be lookin in my eyes - but you'll never really see the rest of me ...
(Destiny)
can you hear me "maseeri" (my destiny)? ... bi-lingual's what im blessed to be ...
(Destiny)
7amamet Salameh - ifta7ee ajni7atikee oo 6eeree
(dove of Peace - spread your wings & fly)
Verse 3:
see 3arab shootin at each other
from iraq to falasteen
syria to libnan...algeria to sudan
pedagogy of the oppressed, tricklin' down...
conquerin' through divisions
& sadly this isn't the first time...
one land - one love - one chance - one blood
no fuss, no fight...yeah right young blood
AK's cheaper than a book
crooked leaders in a hook
gettin' fished out
missles gettin' dished out...
*****ed out by the West
press get a big shout
from the people gettin' rich out of this (bout)...
now what's this really all about...
land - money - or power?
it was the colonizer's fault
but now it's really just ours...
leavin' a sour tase in our mouths...
like generational slave names
whenever speakin out
out-spoken leaders gettin taken out
quicker than belligerent drunks in a bar...
we a far cry from livin' as one...
I got the translation/lyrics off of this website:
http://www.firstpost.com/topic/perso...-31671-30.html