MuslimGirl.net » Outlandish http://muslimgirl.net When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 “Look Into My Eyes” – a Song by Outlandish http://muslimgirl.net/2009/10/look-into-my-eyes-a-song-by-outlandish/ http://muslimgirl.net/2009/10/look-into-my-eyes-a-song-by-outlandish/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:48:32 +0000 Hadiya http://muslimgirl.net/?p=1513 Related posts:
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    • ]]>     When there is injustice done in the world, we usually hear only one side of the argument, the one that has the louder voice and almost always drowns out the voices of the other side. With the raging conflict between Israel and Palestine, we hear the side the world usually wants us to hear, the Israeli side – the ’self defense’, the ‘fighting against terrorism’ side. What is the other side thinking, what is their story? “Look Into My Eyes” by Outlandish is a song that embodies their story, the daily struggles of Palestinians. Its tunes carries the anger, the story, the questions of the average Palestinian.

    Outlandish is a Danish multi-racial hip-hop group.

    Lyrics:

    Look into my eyes
    Tell me what you see
    You don’t see a damn thing
    ’cause you can’t relate to me
    You’re blinded by our differences
    My life makes no sense to you
    I’m the persecuted one
    You’re the red, white and blue

    Each day you wake in tranquility
    No fears to cross your eyes
    Each day I wake in gratitude
    Thanking God He let me rise
    You worry about your education
    And the bills you have to pay
    I worry about my vulnerable life
    And if I’ll survive another day
    Your biggest fear is getting a ticket
    As you cruise your Cadillac
    My fear is that the tank that has just left
    Will turn around and come back

    Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
    Do you let your media deceive your mind?
    Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
    Has our world gone all blind?

    Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
    Do you let your media deceive your mind?
    Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
    Someone tell me…

    Ooohh, let’s not cry tonight
    I promise you one day it’s through
    Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters
    Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
    Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters

    See I’ve known terror for quite some time
    57 years so cruel
    Terror breathes the air I breathe
    It’s the checkpoint on my way to school
    Terror is the robbery of my land
    And the torture of my mother
    The imprisonment of my innocent father
    The bullet in my baby brother
    The bulldozers and the tanks
    The gases and the guns
    The bombs that fall outside my door
    All due to your funds
    You blame me for defending myself
    Against the ways of my enemies
    I’m terrorized in my own land
    But am I the terrorist?

    Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
    Do you let your media deceive your mind?
    Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
    Has our world gone all blind?

    Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
    Do you let your media deceive your mind?
    Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
    Someone tell me…

    Ooohh, let’s not cry tonight, I promise you one day it’s through
    Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
    Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
    Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

    America, do you realize that the taxes that you pay
    Feed the forces that traumatize my every living day
    So if I won’t be here tomorrow
    It’s written in my fate
    May the future bring a brighter day
    The end of our wait

    (pause)

    Ooohh, let’s not cry tonight, I promise you one day it’s through
    Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
    Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
    Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

    Ohh let’s not cry tonight I promise you one day is through
    Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!
    Ooh shine a light for every Soul that ain’t with us no more
    Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!

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