Born under siege, a place where you can't leave
Smoke's in the air, so it makes it hard to breathe
I need my family, protect them from the disease
I went to chase my dreams, hoping that they rescue me
Made it out the maze, God's been blessing me
First time in LA [1], got Gaza next to me
It's in my heart, it's in my veins
I've been smiling at the pain
The bombs lit up the night sky and turn them into day
It's hard to come up with the right rhymes, I don't know what to say
I start to cry when I write mine, it happens every day
A lot of death in my lifetime, all I do is pray
This is my story from the sideline, this life is not a game
I want to call my momma, I hope she charged her phone
Hope my brother's not alone
Hope that one day they'll be grown
This is genocide, but this time it is televised
Don't believe all that you see, cause they're be telling lies
I count my blessings, not the problems
From the bottom, where the robbers acting violent
Killing toddlers, bombing us with helicopters
They seeing me on a TV and they calling me the monster?
That only makes me stronger This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
I was in the studio, chopping up samples
Electricity's off, we sleep with the candles
Sleeping in our sandals and leave the doors open
Cause the bombs fall there's no time to grab the handles
Writing names on our hands just to identify
With somebody's faces off, it makes them hard to recognize
Been through so many wars, I forgot to mention
I can calculate the distance of the airplane engine
You think you're from the trenches? Nah, these the trenches
Kids close their eyes and block their ears, they block their senses
This war is senseless, they treat us like animals
I'll never understand why they built the fences I just wanna see my dream of peace to come true
Refugee in my land, nowhere to run to
I keep the hope when there was no sunshine
They cut the water off, so God let it rain sometime
Chorus
This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
Smoke's in the air, so it makes it hard to breathe
I need my family, protect them from the disease
I went to chase my dreams, hoping that they rescue me
Made it out the maze, God's been blessing me
First time in LA [1], got Gaza next to me
It's in my heart, it's in my veins
I've been smiling at the pain
The bombs lit up the night sky and turn them into day
It's hard to come up with the right rhymes, I don't know what to say
I start to cry when I write mine, it happens every day
A lot of death in my lifetime, all I do is pray
This is my story from the sideline, this life is not a game
I want to call my momma, I hope she charged her phone
Hope my brother's not alone
Hope that one day they'll be grown
This is genocide, but this time it is televised
Don't believe all that you see, cause they're be telling lies
I count my blessings, not the problems
From the bottom, where the robbers acting violent
Killing toddlers, bombing us with helicopters
They seeing me on a TV and they calling me the monster?
That only makes me stronger This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
I was in the studio, chopping up samples
Electricity's off, we sleep with the candles
Sleeping in our sandals and leave the doors open
Cause the bombs fall there's no time to grab the handles
Writing names on our hands just to identify
With somebody's faces off, it makes them hard to recognize
Been through so many wars, I forgot to mention
I can calculate the distance of the airplane engine
You think you're from the trenches? Nah, these the trenches
Kids close their eyes and block their ears, they block their senses
This war is senseless, they treat us like animals
I'll never understand why they built the fences I just wanna see my dream of peace to come true
Refugee in my land, nowhere to run to
I keep the hope when there was no sunshine
They cut the water off, so God let it rain sometime
Chorus
This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
This is me against the world
So I'm doing it for the world
[1] Los Angeles
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta - 2024/2/10 - 23:12
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MC Abdul
Gaza, 10 Febbraio 2024: oltre 28.000 morti, 67.611 feriti