It's a movie and the whole World is viewing it And the popcorn is dreams torn But we're always chewing it The set design is by God but The costumes by the devil And the screenplay is adapted from A book that's embezzled This is where I grew up This is where I grew proud This is where neighbors never say Music is too loud This is where the streets have no name But they have history This is loss is victory Oh my name it ain't nothing My age it means less The country I come from could Be like the rest I was taught and brought up there Laws to abide and the land that I live in Has God on it's side I was young I grew i could tie my shoe I was blind But I knew that I would always see blue Blue seas I see through on The bottom I'll meet you And when we come up for a breath Would you mind if I kiss you? Childhood came up for the kiss But it slips it's pain in with mist And the sunny skies came and I missed it Vanished and windswept Landed and we slept in The arms of convenience, blanket obedience Now Somali-American war had it's day And the Civil War too was soon laid away And the names of our warlords I was made to memorize With guns in their hands, they said God's on their side I had an undying wish to keep from dying I had an untimely hitch keep me from climbing But I climbed the hitch it'self And I tried flying I had an uprising in my soul The left was fightin' the right And the right was fightin' the light And the light was blind in the night And the night woke up in tears When my fingers went to wipe them They became a poem but to write then They would have to speak Tears in another language That would take years now as I'm leavin' I'm weary as Hell The confusion I'm feelin' Ain't no tongue can tell The words fill my head and fall to the floor If God's on your side then Would you ever need war?
@abdallaabshir9942
10 ай бұрын
And after only 7 months later, my homeland had me wondering If God's on your side, then Would you ever need war?!!!
@mcmcmcm6520
6 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up if Fahrenheit 11/9 brought you here. We will defeat Trump and then the whole vicious system that brought us to this point.
@constanceclemmons2864
6 жыл бұрын
Yes it did. We are huge Dylan fans and after we were stunned by the film we were STUNNED by hearing this. Great cover. Resist.
@josephmico3698
5 жыл бұрын
SAME! This song made the movie hopeful at the end!
@kayin30
5 жыл бұрын
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
@waynejohanson1083
4 жыл бұрын
You mean we will defeat the lib-tards and the Clintons.
@waynejohanson1083
4 жыл бұрын
You do know that Michael Moore is the Anti-American not Trump. It is Michael moore that is the globalist.
@pempazo
4 жыл бұрын
This guy is really underrated .... I'm only hoping that in time we really recognize this poet and prophet.
@michelel.1395
4 жыл бұрын
Who, bob dylan?
@fleabag6477
3 жыл бұрын
@@michelel.1395 knaan clearly, its his lyrics on a bob dylan beat
@michelel.1395
3 жыл бұрын
@@fleabag6477 wrong, it a bob dilan song
@fleabag6477
3 жыл бұрын
@@michelel.1395 The lyrics were written by K'naan it's being performed by K'naan, he sampled Bob Dylan's version but THIS version is K'naan's song
@yitbarekeyasu2522
3 жыл бұрын
TRUE!
@patriciathewisher2315
Жыл бұрын
My favourite Dylan cover on the Amnesty CD.
@H2Man69
12 жыл бұрын
Powerful lyrics - powerful song.....I grew up during the era of "Hippies & Flower Power," when Dylan was a powerful artist /performer at Woodstock. The lyric style of this song is comparable of his talent displayed during the late sixties.
@uncommon_sense1234
3 жыл бұрын
Just heard this song in the end credits of Fahrenheit 11/9. Absolutely gorgeous!
@anuar1978
3 жыл бұрын
Aber sind doch andere lyrics oder?
@terr777
Жыл бұрын
Me too, I like this better than the version I grew up on.
@drogermann
3 жыл бұрын
Many of us have gone through this thought process, and still, there is no other country like the U.S.A. Our founding fathers set a great experiment in motion, and it is worth fighting for ....
@peternoble8339
Жыл бұрын
I just watched Fahrenheit 11/9 again last time I seen it the girl school shooting victim really upset me so I stopped it and didn't hear this song it's amazing and such a powerful song
@abdiwahabahmedali7511
7 жыл бұрын
i have never hear this song until today so i Am Proud to be K'nan Fan
great arrangement of this song, deeply moved by it.
@alutz0092
12 жыл бұрын
Knaan proves he's one of the best artists out there kills it!!
@user-dh9bd5st6t
2 жыл бұрын
The poet of the undiscovered equators.
@Jr.warsame
12 жыл бұрын
somalia could be like the rest i like this song i believe k naan he is the best
@roBEARtoEHarwoodJr
4 жыл бұрын
"...Slept in the arms of convenience, blanket obedience..."
@timothymcglynn1935
4 ай бұрын
🎉 awesome 🎉
@minaolenahne
12 жыл бұрын
A fresh revisit to wisdom of words :)
@2xjsf83f2
4 жыл бұрын
great song! Fatima and wavin flag are great too. any1 know any other ones? hes done alot of meh songs but this one is brilliant
@thewhizkid3937
4 жыл бұрын
Fatima is 👍🏿
@WANAAGTV206
8 жыл бұрын
i feel bolowing my self for fun thats al pride we have lol,, too deep feeling
@ulfnowotny01
2 жыл бұрын
Great! Thanks for sharing!
@Ginzy
5 жыл бұрын
i love K'naan
@derekperoutek9057
7 жыл бұрын
K'naan + Trevor Hall would make an incredible collab.
@nasnasir9374
3 жыл бұрын
God is on our side
@tunafamilie7672
4 жыл бұрын
Boah this song is so emotional 🤞🏻❤ Netter than original 😂💪🏼💥
@edm2820
5 жыл бұрын
I knew this song at Michel mooa’s trump society movie. I wanna listen this song on Apple music!!!
@patriciathewisher2315
Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@jasoncarpp7742
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome cover!
@delroymbofana6655
12 жыл бұрын
Feeling dead right now, trapped inside this mental prison Think how Madiba felt, that's how I'm feeling what's it's gon take for me to be healing The Mind vs the body, that's one hell of a fight In the Favela's trying to do the right Try'n find the light When Darkness Sorrounds your well being Is that Really good for my well being There keep going forwards, while we driving ourselves backwards the richer get richer, the poorer getting dumber
@harambaal
5 жыл бұрын
As a matter of fact, K'Naan is s real Somali born. I salute K'Naan.
@PleaseSeeThis
11 жыл бұрын
☮ ☮ Thank you.. LoVed it! ☮ ☮
@delroymbofana6655
12 жыл бұрын
The Favelas Where I Grew up Where many knock my spirit down said I be nothing but a screw up There said I either end up dead, in jail or a homeless alcoholic with no teeth Working up in the slums of Sau paulo with the rats, fighting over the cheese Sometymes I sit and wonder What if she had an abortion My heart's torn, my soul is broken The stress of Babylon devils I knows In my lifetime suffered many blows Sitting thinking how I survived many violent flows
@mookX92
2 жыл бұрын
I feel you my brother
@mubz2010
12 жыл бұрын
Fingers went wipe them the tears became a poem but to write would have to learn another language.
@jis87BE
4 жыл бұрын
YES, crazy to say this, but this a MUCH better version than the original Dylan one....amazing song.
@SaiAbitathaDUCIC
3 жыл бұрын
Really good.
@DylGio
12 жыл бұрын
My name it aint nothing....my age it means less
@delroymbofana6655
12 жыл бұрын
Pressing God For Blessings like I said But why he does the oppossite, sends down Complexions instead Everything I been Through Enough to break you Tortured by the devil, but still In God I Trust Give me a new heart, pump me new blood The one flowing inside my veins, so rotten inside me I fear that it shows outside me Tired of being a child of the night Walking up to the light With God on my Side I got a Wish that one day I know what it's like to be living
@mubz2010
12 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@KaremTourism
9 ай бұрын
If God's on your side then Would you ever need war?
@farwest44
12 жыл бұрын
great- not easy to change dylan and make it work.
@dragoncitybreedingguide3086
9 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan #k'naan
@babybro70
12 жыл бұрын
Cold Chillin' like Bob Dylan, maybe he really was the 1st rapper?
@patriciathewisher2315
2 жыл бұрын
Love this cover. I mainly hate Dylan covers.
@jamaljama9629
11 жыл бұрын
I like it nice
@muhudinmuhudiin788
11 жыл бұрын
its nice in deed
@modatnicca905
5 жыл бұрын
If God’s on your side then would you ever need war?
@thewhizkid3937
4 жыл бұрын
@christopher snedeker and what cause would that be ?
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