Arabian Knightz ft. Shadia Mansour - Prisoner
السجين - الفرسان العرب مع شادية منصور - Not Your Prisoner
السجين - الفرسان العرب مع شادية منصور - Not Your Prisoner
Egypt and Palestine
Released on February 4, 2011
Lyrics courtesy of Rayya El Zain, Nizar Ghanem, & Shadia Mansour in Shahadat's Winter 2012 issue (16 professionally translated Arabic rap songs with English and Arabic side-by-side. Check it out!)
Full Arabic lyrics and their English translation after the jump...
HOOK:
You wanna keep me here forever...
I can't escape what many thousands hear...
Then you completely turn against me...
and I'm afraid...
فرسان عرب - يي! عرب - يي! عرب - يي! عرب
بلسان فاكريني انو مافيهوش هتكلم عن
كل حلم اترسم من غضبهم اتدفن
انقسم اتحاط بالألم من الفكر فالمرحلة السمعية
والحلول اللي تنقذ عانوين جانبية
ارهابية من عيون معنية باستقلالية
بعد حروب عالمية محمية متدارية
منسية مرمية على اكتاف مش مرضية
مستخبية بطريقة اتكالية عالاراضي العربية
بسلبية مرئية انتهازية
وراء الاعلام الاسلامية بباينوا النية
احتيالية عنادية سيكوباتية
سرية انانية استراتيجية ضد الانسانية
وبعد المسايسة متابعة من قاعة المشاهدة
لكل عربي بينزل مستانى مساعدة
ماخلاص كسروا بنا كلمة مساندة
ومن عقولنا اخذوا الورق اللي يكسب في اللعبة
CHORUS:
أنا عايز بلد حرة من الظلم
عايز بلد حرة من القهر
عايز بلد حرة من الشر
عايز أرضي و أرض العرب - يي
العرب - يي! العرب - يي! العرب - يي
RUSH:
Destructive destruction destroying my district
Anti-Christ running it, spitting evil wisdom
I’m destroying the oppressors in Arabic settlements
I'm known for blowing up beats and governments
My peeps die in their cribs while y’all close your eyes
Two of y’all are kidnapped you call it a terrorist crime
The media is backing up murderous propaganda
While we fight eternally like immortal highlanders!
Al Durrah, Sheikh Yassin, the pains unseen
Forging your own stories for the blind to see
Want to draw your own opinions bout the bombs we face?
What’s your opinion if you’re enslaved and your mom is raped?
It’s too easy to speak when you’re far from the heat
Through the White House I creep and yes I’m armed to the teeth
With a mic and a pen and a pad here’s your evidence:
“Weapons of Mass Destruction,“ Mr President!
Destructive destruction destroying my district
Anti-Christ running it, spitting evil wisdom
I’m destroying the oppressors in Arabic settlements
I'm known for blowing up beats and governments
My peeps die in their cribs while y’all close your eyes
Two of y’all are kidnapped you call it a terrorist crime
The media is backing up murderous propaganda
While we fight eternally like immortal highlanders!
Al Durrah, Sheikh Yassin, the pains unseen
Forging your own stories for the blind to see
Want to draw your own opinions bout the bombs we face?
What’s your opinion if you’re enslaved and your mom is raped?
It’s too easy to speak when you’re far from the heat
Through the White House I creep and yes I’m armed to the teeth
With a mic and a pen and a pad here’s your evidence:
“Weapons of Mass Destruction,“ Mr President!
CHORUS:
أنا عايز بلد حرة من الظلم
عايز بلد حرة من القهر
عايز بلد حرة من الشر
عايز أرضي وأرض العرب - يي
العرب - يي! العرب - يي! العرب - يي
SPHINX:
They’re dropping bombs over Baghdad, Libnan, Afghan Palestinians, Bin Laden, Saddam
Listen, Islam is all about the peace, man
But wars up in these streets, man, got me losin’ sleep, man
Mr. Politician, I got a little question:
How come you are eating and all your peoples isn’t?
I am on a mission to break up out of this prison
If you’re with me and share my vision, let’s start by saving the children!
Listen, Islam is all about the peace, man
But wars up in these streets, man, got me losin’ sleep, man
Mr. Politician, I got a little question:
How come you are eating and all your peoples isn’t?
I am on a mission to break up out of this prison
If you’re with me and share my vision, let’s start by saving the children!
SHADIA MANSOUR:
احنا منمشي بالكرامة والثقة بالنفس
معّصنا قوانينكم بالثبوت بالدم
لو إن ضميركم بتريحكم بتتكلموا من وراء الفرد؟
قول لي مين ما عم ينام بالليل - عن جد؟
ع بين انتو بتبنوا حواجز احنا بنكبر
عيالنا وبنظلنا نزيد العدد
نحن السبب ليش ما بتسترجوا تغمضوا عين
في فرق كبير بين مقاوم ومقررين
HOOK:
You wanna keep me here forever...
I can't escape what many thousands hear...
Then you completely turn against me...
and I'm afraid...
Knightz! Arabian YEAH! Arabian YEAH! Arabian YEAH! Arabian...
E-MONEY:
They presume the tongue has no art so I will speak
About every dream that was drawn from their anger and got buried
It got divided, surrounded by pain
And the solutions that might work are sidelined and smeared as terrorist
From eyes that are interested in independence
After world wars protected and hidden
Forgotten and thrown on unsatisfied shoulders
Concealed with consent in Arab lands
With obvious opportunism
Beneath Islamic publicity, intentions show through
Fraudulent, stubborn, psychopathic
A secret selfish strategy against mankind
And after politics we keep tabs on things from the screening room
For every Arab who gets humiliated, I am waiting to help
But it’s over, they shattered for us the word “solidarity"
And from our minds they took the cards that win the game
CHORUS:
I want a country free of injustice!
I want a country free of oppression!
I want a country free of evil!
I want [it for] my land and the land of the Arabs - yeah!
The Arabs - yeah! The Arabs - yeah! The Arabs - yeah!
RUSH:
Destructive destruction destroying my district
Anti-Christ running it, spitting evil wisdom
I’m destroying the oppressors in Arabic settlements
I'm known for blowing up beats and governments
My peeps die in their cribs while y’all close your eyes
Two of y’all are kidnapped you call it a terrorist crime
The media is backing up murderous propaganda
While we fight eternally like immortal highlanders!
Al Durrah, Sheikh Yassin, the pains unseen
Forging your own stories for the blind to see
Want to draw your own opinions bout the bombs we face?
What’s your opinion if you’re enslaved and your mom is raped?
It’s too easy to speak when you’re far from the heat
Through the White House I creep and yes I’m armed to the teeth With a mic and a pen and a pad here’s your evidence: “Weapons of Mass Destruction,“ Mr President! RUSH:
Destructive destruction destroying my district
Anti-Christ running it, spitting evil wisdom
I’m destroying the oppressors in Arabic settlements
I'm known for blowing up beats and governments
My peeps die in their cribs while y’all close your eyes
Two of y’all are kidnapped you call it a terrorist crime
The media is backing up murderous propaganda
While we fight eternally like immortal highlanders!
Al Durrah, Sheikh Yassin, the pains unseen
Forging your own stories for the blind to see
Want to draw your own opinions bout the bombs we face?
What’s your opinion if you’re enslaved and your mom is raped?
It’s too easy to speak when you’re far from the heat
CHORUS:
I want a country free of injustice!
I want a country free of injustice!
I want a country free of oppression!
I want a country free of evil!
I want [it for] my land and the land of the Arabs - yeah!
The Arabs - yeah! The Arabs - yeah! The Arabs - yeah!
SPHINX:
They’re dropping bombs over Baghdad, Libnan, Afghan
Palestinians, Bin Laden, Saddam
Listen, Islam is all about the peace, man
But wars up in these streets, man, got me losin’ sleep, man
Mr. Politician, I got a little question:
How come you are eating and all your peoples isn’t?
I am on a mission to break up out of this prison
If you’re with me and share my vision, let’s start by saving the children!
Listen, Islam is all about the peace, man
But wars up in these streets, man, got me losin’ sleep, man
Mr. Politician, I got a little question:
How come you are eating and all your peoples isn’t?
I am on a mission to break up out of this prison
If you’re with me and share my vision, let’s start by saving the children!
SHADIA MANSOUR:
We walk with dignity and confidence in ourselves
We crushed your laws with our steadfastness and blood
We crushed your laws with our steadfastness and blood
If your conscience was giving you peace, you wouldn’t be speaking from behind a gun
Tell me who’s the one not getting sleep at night?
While you build your checkpoints, we raise our kidsAnd we will keep increasing the number [of them]
We are the reason you don’t dare to blink
There is a big difference between a man of resistance and decision-makers
