Omar Offendum - Destiny

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  1. JPinkman said:

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    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!
     
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    VivaPalestina said:

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    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
    ....
     
  3. m18 said:

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    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...
     
  4. m18 said:

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    I got the translation/lyrics off of this website:
    http://www.firstpost.com/topic/perso...-31671-30.html