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Aziza
04:17
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She spent all her days
With her head in her books
Never cared much to agonize
Over her looks
But the boys would all whisper
And motion and stare
All the girls would just mutter
That it wasn’t fair
She would move onto college
And get her degree
Go to med school
And then do her residency
But a suitor came calling
When she turned sixteen
And he didn’t quite care for her frivolous dreams
And he said:
Ya Aziza, ya habibi (sweetheart)
You need a hard working
Husband like me
Ya Aziza, isma3eeni (listen to me)
I’ll pay
For you to belong to me
Her father was looking
To give her away
Her mother just listened
To what he would say
That Aziza was woman
And soon should be wed
That all of this schooling
Was ruining her head
And Baba (Dad) said
Ya Aziza, ya habibi
Come down from the clouds
And face your destiny
Ya Aziza, ya binti (my daughter)
A mother is what we expect you to be
So they painted her hands
And he gave her a ring
The women started to dance and they started to sing
What a wonderful wedding
They said to the bride
Never stopping to think
She was broken inside
He said
Ya Aziza, ya habibi
You must stay home
And raise our family
Ya Aziza, ya hayati
I want our son to
Grow up just like me
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2. |
Judgment Day
03:27
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I, I
Don’t know if you are listening
Time, time
Has cast its doubt on me
Light,
Is conquered by the darkness
Why
Don’t you just intervene?
May just take a thousand lives
Lost before we get it right
We’ll keep finding reasons to fight
Oh lord, you know that we’ll
Torture and annihilate
Plunder, steal, and violate
Still be able to sleep at night
Until our judgment day
Crime
Runs rampant in the cities
Wives
Are beaten ruthelessly
Why
Create us just to suffer
Give us a sign
Of where to go from here
May just take a thousand lives
Lost before we get it right
We’ll keep finding reasons to fight
Or lord, you know that we’ll
Poison and indoctrinate
Teach our youngest ones to hate
Still be able to sleep at night
Until our judgment day
Allah, Allah
My God, My God
Allah, Allah
My God, My God
Make just take a thousand lives
Lost before we get it right
We’ll keep finding reasons to fight
Or lord, you know that we’ll
Murder in the name of faith
Keep on shouting “God is great”
Still be able to sleep at night
Until our judgment day.
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3. |
Run Away
04:51
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Feel the wind
On your face
Does it ease
Your heartache
Let me the rain
Start to pour
Wash away
Your troubles
Think I’ll run and make my getaway
Good luck finding me, I’d rather go to a place
Where I can’t be hurt by anyone
Can’t face life so I’ll just turn around and run away
Let the walls
Tumble down
Watch them fall
To the ground
Pieces of
Who I was
Where I’ve been
What I’ve done
Think I’ll run and make my getaway
Good luck finding me, hidden is where I will stay
I don’t want to talk to anyone
Can’t face life so I’ll just turn around and run away
Look in front of you
Whatever you do
Don’t look back
Deny the things that happened
So you won’t have to deal with it.
Time to up and make my grand escape
Good luck finding me, I’d rather not show my face.
I don’t want to face what I have done
Can’t face life so I’ll just turn around and run away
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4. |
Smiling Eyes
05:13
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I didn’t sleep well last night
And that’s all thanks to you
Babe, you know that it isn’t right
That you don’t know what you do to me
I’ll keep it all to myself
For as long as I can
I’ll keep my mouth shut for once
At least when it comes to this
Better that you didn’t know
Than I share with you my weakness
Better that I take control
Fall asleep, and stop this dreaming of you
I’ll just stay awake for the rest of my life
Or until I learn to get you off my mind
I’ll just try to shake all this yearning inside
And I won’t be won over by your smiling eyes
Don’t even know you that well
In fact it’s kind of dumb
That I would be drawn to you
That you would even become
The source of my insomnia
Better that you didn’t know
Than I share with you my feelings
Better that I take control
And find a way to get over it.
I’ll just stay awake for the rest of my life
Or until I learn to get you off my mind
I’ll just try to shake all this yearning inside
And I won’t be won over by your smiling eyes
This will be the only time
That I write a song about you
I’ll erase you from my mind
If this is the last thing I do
I do
I’ll just stay awake for the rest of my life
Or until I learn to get you off my mind
I’ll just try to shake all this yearning inside
And I won’t be won over by your smiling eyes
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5. |
Huriyah
04:21
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Ya 7uriyah ( freedom)
How I would love to see ya
I don’t know where you’ve been
But I think it’s time for you to show your face again.
Ya 7ukuma (government)
What are you doing for us
Why should we take your fall
Yeah I think you owe us all a damn good explanation
Ya beladi (my country)
It seems you’re hurting badly
For your government
Doesn’t seem to be concerned about its citizens
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah (I want to see you, freedom)
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya (Where are you, you are valuable to me)
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya
Tehrimooni minha (why would you take her (freedom) away from me
Nabdi albi ya huriyah (She is what makes my heart pulse/beat)
Ya sha3abi (My people)
Ya shabaab ya amal waTani (The youth, the hope of my homeland)
You are strong and you are wise
Don’t ever be surprised when life is how it should be
Ya 7abeybi (my loved ones)
Intu dayman guwa albi (you are always in my heart)
I hope and I pray
We experience the same God-given rights someday
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah (I want to see you freedom)
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya (Where are you, you are valuable to me)
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya
Tehrimooni minha (why would you take her (freedom) away from me
Nabdi albi ya huriyah (She is what makes my heart pulse/beat)
We all have the right to live in peace
Yet it is a fight to live at all
We have really tried to say this nicely
Bas (but), it’s time for the regime to fall.
3yzeen na3ish fi salam (We want to live in peace)
3yzeen na3ish fi aman (We want to live in security)
Yullah ya shabab w ya banaat (Let’s go/hurry, young men and women
Allah ma3na w ma’aa beladna (God is with us and our country)
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah (I want to see you freedom)
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya (Where are you, you are valuable to me)
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya
3yza shoofik ya 7uriyah
Inti feenik ghali 3alaya
Tehrimooni minha (why would you take her (freedom) away from me
Nabdi albi ya huriyah (She is what makes my heart pulse/beat)
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Omnia Hegazy Staten Island, New York
Singer/Songwriter, Global Citizen, Cat Lady.
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