This song was recommended by Zainab Alkhawaja as one of her father’s favorites. With some extremely generous translation help by Birds At Daybreak (j.mp/tfkIgw)
lyrics
ثورة البحرين : ندعوا بـسلمِ ومحبه .. وجيشنا يقتلُ شعبه
With victorious tears I read
The chapters of this massacre
Hear me, o world
Of people who are kind I sing,
A people who would live in peace
But one that would never yield
One who longs to dream of hope,
Who stands unarmed in cannon smoke,
Hear me oh world
Heading toward our destiny
The will to set our people free
We bow only to god
A proud people
With peace as its battlefield
Drawing our strength while we gather now as one
Justice has called us to this pearl revolution
And if we must die, it is for justice to be done
Honor the blood
Spilled in the name
Of the good
Praise to the blood
Spilled for the people’s pride [x2]
And to all of those who sacrificed
We hail to you a thousand times [x2]
A thousand times over
Rightful and just
Rightful and just
Our demands
Answered with cold
Bullets and blood-
Shed [x2]
We call in peace and in love
While our own army turns to murder us [x2]
Systematic massacres
are always the tools of these
Violent regimes
Oppressive governments
Stamping out the people’s hope
Justice is never near
Broken hearts bear flags of peace
Messages so true and sweet
Hear me o world
I dream to do my homeland proud
And yet to work in peace is called
Lowly treachery
The fiends attack in the dead of night
While the people of Bahrain peacefully sleep
Killing the old and slaughtering the young ones
We awake to the people’s blood running in the streets
Tomorrow has
Been torn away
By their crimes
An army of
Mercenaries [x2]
The appalling face of the regime
Is now bared today for all to see [x2]
For all to see
Rightful and just
rightful and just
Our demands
Answered with cold
Bullets and blood-
Shed [x2]
We call in peace and in love
While our own army turns to murder us [x2]
Treachery and fire betray
The false condolences you pay
We know your hand
Then you mourn pretentiously
Thinking that we would not see
Lord hear my cry
You who do not share our faith
We ask for peace to make our way
To our destiny
But war and mayhem in the night
Have come to those who cannot fight
O for shame!
You summon killers, condemning us to loss
Our army works against the peaceful people of Bahrain
Heartlessly killing, and coweringly wasting,
Our people are dying by your money and your tanks
Witness, o world
Hear what has be-
Come of us
Supplanted by
Gross authority [x2]
Waging war on those who ask for peace
Yet injustice surely soon will cease [x2]
Will come to an end soon
Rightful and just
Rightful and just
Our demands
Answered with cold
Bullets and blood-
Shed [x2]
We call in peace and in love
While our own army turns to murder us [x2]
credits
from various things,
track released January 3, 2014
original song by Saleh Al Durazi - “We Call In Peace And In Love And The Army Kills Its People”
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