Lowkey ft. Mai Khalil - Cradle of Civilisation (With Lyrics) ᴴᴰ

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Lowkey - Cradle of Civilisation ft. Mai Khalil (with lyrics on screen and in description)

Introduction:
I remember when I was growing up, if my mother got angry or frustrated with me, she'd say 'oy shked helwa el horiya' and the basic translation of that is 'oh, how beautiful is freedom', but where is freedom?

Chorus:
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Close my eyes; I can still hear my amee saying
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
But where is our freedom?

Verse 1:
This is for Baghdad, the place of my mother's birth
The cradle of civilisation, for what it's worth
The land I've never seen, culture I've never known
Iraq is in my heart, my blood, my flesh and bones
The air I've never breathed, fragrance I've never smelt,
Pride I've never had, the nationality that I've never felt
Saddam was bad, are the Americans even more so?
They made me grow like I was missin' part of my torso
But I never picked up a grenade in my garden
I never saw people I love die starvin'
I never saw my family die through many years of sanctions
While the ruler's family lived in palaces and mansions
I never had a family member kidnapped for a ransom
And never lost a friend to violence that was random
Bombings, occupation, torture, intimidation
A million dead people doesn't equal liberation

Chorus:
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Close my eyes; I can still hear my amee saying
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya (listen)
But where is our freedom?

Verse 2:
Forget division based on ethnicity or religion
Whether you're Sunni, Shia, Kurdish or Christian
Pain is still pain if you're a person that's missin'
We all deserve a life in this Earth that we live in
Is there enough words that can say,
How deeply Baghdad is burnin' today?
And it's not about pity, hands out or sympathy
It's about pride, respect, honour and dignity
Babies being born with deformities from uranium
Those babies aren't just Iraqi, they're Mesopotamian
What I view on the news is making me shiver
'Cause I look at the victims, see the same face in the mirror
This system of division makes it harder for you and me
Peace is a question, the only answer is unity
So many dreams about this place that I've never seen,
Place my family had to leave in the 70's

Chorus:
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Close my eyes; I can still hear my amee saying
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya (yeah)
But where is our freedom?

Verse 3:
It rains white phosphorus in Fallujah
This is for those that won't live to see the future
Sorry that I wasn't there, sorry that I couldn't help
I'm sorry for every tear, sorry you've been put through hell
Still I feel like an immigrant, Englishman,
Amongst Arabs and an Arab amongst Englishmen
Like I said they never gave me the culture
But they did give me Kubbad Haleb, Hakaka and Dolma
Ana isme Kareem, wa ohmre thalatha wa-'ishrun,
Amee min Baghdad, wa abuya min Dover
And that's the combination that I carry on my shoulders
Still I rep 'til my death, 'til they kill and seal my flesh
From now, all the way back to Gilgamesh
Such a villainized and criticised nation,
Will always be the cradle of civilisation

Chorus:
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Close my eyes; I can still hear my amee saying
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
Oy shked helwa el horiya
But where is our freedom?

Talking:
In my sleep, in my dreams, Motherland, I can still feel you calling me
In my sleep, in my dreams, Motherland, I can still feel you calling me
In my sleep, in my dreams, Motherland, I can still feel you calling me
I can still feel you calling me
I can still feel you calling me


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