[Verse 1] Prepare for take off Touch down BenGurion Strict search make sure nobody enters with bombs Blue white flags For the Birthright Tour Im on Never mention three villages the airport is on Recent history buried But it speaks through the sand All Jews Law of Return I dont seem to understand A land without a people for people without a land? But I see a man standing with a key and a deed in his hand First stop museum of the Holocaust Walking outsidein the distancesaw a ghost throwing a Molotov Houses burnt with kerosene Mass graves Couldnt bear the scene It wasnt a pogromit was the ruins of Deir Yassin Next stop shopping at the Kenyon Malcha Built it on the back of the town AlMalha Wishing we could call it its name Appalled by the change And now a mall full of chains Is all that remains. [Hook] My Ima misses people not places Has she seen the towns with names in Arabic the Hebrew replaces? The policies are evil and racist, deceitful and heinous Youll never be a peaceful state with legal displacement [Abeer] Remember the names of our cities before you came and replaced it Remember and tell me how am I supposed not to miss a nation living within us? [Translated from Arabic] [Verse 2] At the Wailing Wall Im rolling a wish Then stick it in between the hole in the bricks Im feeling more than melancholy This used to be the Moroccan quarter Until we stopped em short and Now their grandkids is the ones thats throwing rocks at borders I aint one to play and I dont pray often So Im AWOLn While you making native sons Feel like a stranger in they own land like James Baldwin This aint about a Quran or a synagogue or Mosque or Torah The colonizer break it into acres and dunums Erasing the culture Changed Haifa to Chaifa Changed Yaffa to Yaffo The old city left to haunt Hummus pronounced chumoos, we ate in a restaurant Next hit the discotheque Yes we on the list of guests Palestinians cant get in Its blatant disrespect Cops stop em for speaking they language Its dangerous To repeat it when With history we disconnect [Hook] [Verse 3] 200 year old olive trees Uprooted the groves To build a wall Now their future enclosed Settlements spreading like cancer and toxic sewage polluted the roads Now full of checkpoints I superimpose the truth and it shows Village ruins overgrown with planted trees Whod have thought the desert blooms and Tu Bishvat I cant believe This aint environmental Disguising lies, extincting lives like manatees Calling it a transfer? Please More like a catastrophe! Birthright tours recruiting em, confuse em into moving in Claim its only names and words but denying the root of them Power been abusing it Our past never excusing them 60 years since 48 and 40 since Jerusalem My boy Shadi wanted to visit it so badly He lied hes diabetic to see it for five seconds One Nine Four ruled the courts in the case Mom, you cant disconnect a people from the importance of place [Hook]
birthright, arabic, disconnect, village, abeer