Outlandish Ft. Sami Yusuf - I've Seen
Sunday, 29 April 2018
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Lyrics :
Chorus:
[Sami Yusuf:]
I wish you were here
Here next to me
Been missing you so
So desperately
But lately I feel
Like you feel and
I see what you see
How I'm missing you
[Waqas:]
What happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known, but now can you tell?
Used to inspire others with our way of thinking and speech
People came from afar just to hear us teach
Yo what happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known, but now can you tell?
Mosques are empty, refrigerators are stocked
We lost our deen we feel secure
'Cause our mansions are locked
In my teen years salah wasn't really that tight
Now I gotta pray each one of them twice
What happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known, but now can you tell?
Brother we prefer light skinned women
While righteously maintaining our deen against racism (and tribalism)?
What happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known, but now can you tell?
Chorus
[Isam:]
What happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known, but now can you tell?
Kids in Africa starving, can't afford to cry
I'll pay the bank interest on a car I can't afford to buy
What happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell?
We used to smile at each other with faces full of light
Now we frown on each other, we bicker, and we fight
Pops in the mosque praying,
Kids in the streets hating,
Kids on the corner selling pot and in the mosque preaching?
What happened to the ummah once known so well?
Greatness was known but now can you tell?
The Alquran has left our hearts - stranded hanging on our walls
6,232 verses so strong
9 out of 10 of us can't even read it or write
1924 seems distant like way before Christ
Chorus
[Lenny:]
que le paso a la masa como puede ser
la grandesa conosida no la puedo ber
he bisto como mi figura cahe en tentation
al pesar que la vida ha esido buena con luce e ilusion
he bebido! perdon por mis pecados
tengo la cruce sobre mi cama
e il diablo a mi lado
que le paso a la masa como puede ser
la bellesa conosida no la puedo ber
e sentido incompetentia buscando la verdad
todos disen conoserla solo beo la maldad
que le paso a la masa como puede ser
la puressa conosida no la puedo ber
(What happened to the ummah how can that be?
The greatness known once I can't see it no more
I have seen my eyes falling in temptation
Although life has given me light and illussions
I have asked for forgiveness for my sins
I have the cross on the wall over my bed and the devil at my side
What happened to the ummah how can that be?
The beauty I known I can't see it no more
I have felt the incompetence in my way to truth
Everybody pretends to know it, but all I see is evil
What happened to the ummah how can that be?
The purity I known I can't see it no more)
[Waqas:]
If I was to fall on my knees and ask you to forgive everything and anyone out of love for the one? oh oh oh
I've seen..
And if you were to fall on your knees and ask me the same but I don't even think about it?
Let's just break out of the darkness of ignorance
Chorus