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badi salam بدّي سلام -mahmood jrere from DAM feat. Shadia Mansour

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    I was correct today. I found myself contemplating images of madness.
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    and the soldiers. Upon my people an artist drew the tears of a million cheeks.
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    They harvests souls and they do it without even a "Where you coming from? Where you going?"
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    I was right about a madness that drawn in the incoming arrows. Come with me to the beginning.
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    The world convinced us that in a state, as they told us, there is sovereignty.
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    Come on! Honor us with democracy! Come on! In Palestine there are free and fair elections!
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    Wait! In my mind, there's a question mark that’s powerfully illuminated:
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    How long will democracy keep coming before freedom? I asked the Umma,
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    but my question was extinguished in the face of the camera lights because
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    it's like being blind. Who will remove these calamities, whose glare is shimmering in the lenses?
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    The people are clinging to a piece of paper because today is the day off for the elections.
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    Everyone's singing. You say two _______ herding a song like a punch to the face.
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    The world attended a farce while we played our parts well.
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    A team went down, a team went up. Good, now a team can get rid of the crisis.
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    The farce had a surprising ending. The world thought about what’s happening.
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    They were upset with us and a boycott happened. I’m calling for us to improve ourselves.
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    I want peace... This countryside is what I want.
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    I want peace... It's an obligation for anything. An obligation.
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    I want peace... Hahaha, O Irony!
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    I want peace... We wanted peace with the enemy. Now we want peace with ourselves.
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    The world wants to punish my people. It wants to lecture my people
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    As though they are a small child. It seems that they mocked us really heavily.
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    We didn't understand what's happening. Come on! Why is everyone upset?
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    It's strange and amazing how I thought they would accept our self-determination.
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    The solitary face wore a broken gown.
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    Our balloting was refused and interrupted under the administration.
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    You said that decades would not suffice for the occupation to influence the world.
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    It was unified when it turned away from Palestine and let the hunger spread.
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    We were starving so we craved meats
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    _______ on our faces and we squeezed the trigger and they crushed us and killed us.
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    Israel is finished with not having its fill of us. It cuts each of us in two, person by person
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    and mothers weep because we kill their daughters. The ones calling them were our divining rods.
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    I want peace... This countryside is what I want.
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    I want peace... It's an obligation for anything. An obligation.
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    I want peace... Hahaha, O Irony!
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    I want peace... We wanted peace with the enemy. Now we want peace with ourselves.
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    Now the world saw us and the waves that overtook us.
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    So in the surprising signs that were being created, they convinced us that they feel our pain.
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    Poor guy! We embraced our most barbaric actions.
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    It's the civilized world that's used to blowing up that way with airborne attacks.
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    It's used to not seeing and not empathizing with the eyes of the victim.
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    It doesn't tolerate logic, so it prepares and perpetrates automated massacres .
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    And now it's acting upset about the situation, about the issue.
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    It cries with an eye for a second while it lights the fuse and winks at Zionism.
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    O Palestine, I have gotten myself a rifle now.
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    So take me with you, but not for a civil war.
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    Enough with tribalism in our house. We're not lacking, uncle.
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    They unleashed the Dark Age upon us in our homeland and the Dark Age gave us blood.
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    I saw a madness that will be written in history with poison.
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    It's all poisoned and we protect the spoon with the poison in it.
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    We took an injection and combed and sprayed our hair. We wanted peace with the enemy.
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    Now we want peace with ourselves. We comb and spray our hair.
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    What happened to our people? I don't understand our language and I'm tired psychologically.
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    You ask me, "What's your opinion?" I tell you it isn't coming to me. Ask me what I want.
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    I want peace! I want peace! I want peace! I want peace!
Title:
badi salam بدّي سلام -mahmood jrere from DAM feat. Shadia Mansour
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Video Language:
Arabic
Duration:
03:58

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