I BELONG TO YOU
You did not raise me as a man,
You wanted an ass or a monkey!
You did not raise me to understand,
But to say yes and be a good donkey!
You wanted a child to tie down your wife,
You did not want a free thinker.
You wished for some super-athlete;
To make up for your unfulfilled dreams!
You’ve always denied all I stood for,
As words of man, not words of god!
When you stood in your glass house,
Throwing stones,
We could no longer talk for as long,
As you could no never go wrong!
I could hear your voice on my death bed,
Hissing in my ear the word ‘repent’,
For me it’s sad we can’t get along in
this life; For you I never grow, never die!
You never listened to a dream I dreamt;
Ya-la la-la, la-la la-la la!
And in my life treated me like I’m dead;
Ya-la la-la, la-la la-la la!
As we now stand as one family,
Enemies by ideology,
Still in your eyes I could only be;
That five year old child!
I belong to you; I don’t belong to you!
I belong to you; I don’t belong to you!
You never listened to a dream I dreamt, Ya-la la-la, la la-la la!
In my life treated me like I’m dead, Ya-la la-la, la la-la la!
You never took my side of the story,
I belong to you, I don’t belong to you!
I belong to you, I don’t belong to you!
credits
from Legal Fiction,
released February 2, 2007
Words: A. El-Motassem
Music: A. El-Motassem / M. Attias
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