Words & Music by Ala Ghawas

Father, I’m running through the fire

I don’t want to belong, I just need a place to admire

I run and I run towards the sun

Thinking about the things I could’ve done about it

My friends are gone, one by one

To the fighting, they just can’t live without it

You know I’ve never lost the faith within

If God is with us, then who’s with them?

Mother, I’m drowning in my desires

I just wanted to keep a wife and a home, but they call me a thief and a liar 

I drown and I drown in this fucked up town

The roots in the ground had poisoned my fortune

I see people meltdown for unknown grounds

What kind of love can cause this tension?

It doesn’t really matter where it all begins

Because we prayed and we cried and we moaned and we failed and we sinned

Call it rebellion, I found myself in this rebellion

In this rebellion, I’m not a blind civilian

I don’t bleed my head

I don’t wear the black

I don’t close my eyes and ears

To prove piety

I don’t grow my beard

I don’t preach slaughter 

I don’t raise a sword for the lord

To show loyalty 

And that’s what I see

What’s wrong with unity?

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