Lyrics (translated to English)
 

Dedication > 7.Al Huriye Unt'a - Freedom for My Sisters
(Featuring Tamer Nafar with female rapper Safa' Hathoot from Arapyat)

Talking:
Discrimination, we all suffer from it
Americans discriminate against the Arabs
Zionists discriminate against the Arabs
You know what, Arabs, if we discriminate against each other
Then others will discriminate against us too.
These words go out to all our mothers and sisters
Who got lost in our customs, primitive and stupid customs
(It’s in our faces but we never chose to face up it)
This is for you, wherever you are
Prisoner, choked, cut off from your dreams and ambitions
Keep your head up sister, just keep your head up
(It’s in our faces but we never chose to face up it)

Rap:
Silent cries from the one who dries our tears
She opened her eyes and saw the gates of the forbidden
We all see it, what is forbidden to me, is forbidden to her
What is allowed to me, is forbidden to her. Then what is
Allowed for her?! Well, the word ‘allowed’
Does not appear in her dictionary
She puts us on our feet and we just step on her rights
Day-by-day, she continues living the same way
She is the first one to wake up and last one to sleep
This is for you, the woman, the mother of the house
This is from me, the man,
The one who builds walls of limitation round you
To the historical stories that never change
Back in the old days, we would bury women alive
And now today, we bury their minds
Is she always the prey because she's weak?! HELL NO
She alone suffers for 9 months
But we are the ones who burst out crying
But I guess that we read only what has been written
Adam's fingerprints were all over the crime scene
But our blaming fingers just pointed at EVE

Safa Hathoot:
The Arabic woman’s life is written
What should she do, where should she go, it’s all written
She’s like a wounded bird in the sky
Scared to land because of the hunters
Imprisoned in her own house, thirsty for freedom
And can drink nothing but her own tears
Then they dare ask me: why do I cry?
Because I’m a body without a spirit
U abuse it and then I’m wrong while u are right?
Who the hell are you to tell me how to behave?
Asking me “where r u going?”
What? You forgot where u came from? U came from me
But from now on I’m going to be independent
And the new generation follow suit
We should fight for our rights, let men ask questions
But let our sisters answer

(Chorus)

It's in our faces but we never chose to face it (repeat)

Rap
I apologize to that girl who gave me nothing but respect
In front of my friends I said she gave it to me
We talk like this ‘cause we want to feel manly
But we only talk like this ‘cause that’s what we are not
I apologize to u. U were saving yourself for the right one.
I came and took that from u and then just left u
Now I am being called the "Don Juan" even though I was the thief
And u are being insulted even though u were the victim

(Chorus)

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