full song lyrics

The intro is a sample of Tawfiq Ziad's poem "Unadikum (I'm calling you)," which has been performed by Ahmed Qabour here. DAM - Stranger in My Country Tawfiq Ziad: I'm calling you I shake your hand I kiss the ground beneath your feet and tell you "I will redeem you" And I give you the light of my eyes And the warmth of my heart And the tragedy which I live Is that my fate is just like yours Mohamed: All the boats pass us by leaving a sadness to drown our hearts So we becomes guests of the darkness in our homes And the verse is flipped again We've become guests who are unwelcome Strangers in our own land, separated from our country Who cares about our worries? A slow death runs in our blood A democratic Zionist regime is ruling us Democratic to those who are Zionist And Zionist to those who are Arab In other words, what is forbidden for him is forbidden for me And what's allowed for him is forbidden for me And what's allowed for me is undesira...

DAM - I Have No Freedom Chorus: Everywhere I go I see borders, imprisoning humanity How come all the children in the world are free, but I have no freedom? Tamer: We've been living for more than fifty years behind the bars of the laws that are imprisoning me in a reality that never changes We don't get to feel any light except a fence from it We see a blue sky with white clouds In the middle of a star that reminds me I'm tied up (ie Israeli flag) But no I'm resilient, living optimistically You won't keep me from hoping with a dividing wall And even if this barrier surrounds me I am tied to Palestine like a fetus to an umbilical chord My legs are the roots of the olive tree in the earth that keeps producing and regrowing branches Every branch outstretched in peace Every branch subject to occupation, refusing to give up So why don’t I have freedom? Because I refuse to live in slavery Mahmoud: We searched for peace among the leaders of war Generals of war, with them we...