Broken Promises

Drea d'Nur:

I will never let you hit the floor

Or ever make you ask for more

I will never leave you home alone

Or ever let you drift in that zone

 

I will dry your tears when you cry

I will never let these feelings die

I can’t run from this

Broken promises

Prayin' you forgive

All the things I missed

 

I can’t run from this

Broken promises

Put them in the flames

Burn them all away

 

Sayin' never ever again

But the Chinese got a million in the camps

Protect and serve that’s what you swear

But they ain’t feelin' that over here

Liberty & freedom for them all

But millions ain’t hearing that call

 

We can’t run from this

Broken promises

Prayin' we can fix

All the pain & mess

We can’t run from this

Broken promises

Prayin' we can fix

All the pain & mess

 

No more lies to give

No broken promises

Now it’s time to live

Now it's time to live

Quadir Lateef:

Promises of a broken promise not to be broken

Wearin' the pain because my ancestors wore a chain

With promises not to be opened

I promised you all of me

All of my soul to have

Half of my soul to hold

All of us stole and sold

None of our stories told

Freedom

Freedom became too expensive when justice gained a price tag

I might ask GOD for loan when I’m alone

To buy a poem from Rumi 

Palestine for my ummi

Same spirit but a new me

Beggin' GOD just to use me

Cuz he usually never move me

Never move me

Gotta free myself

Prayed at noon

It was qu’un faya qu’un

Couldn’t be myself

Had to see myself

It was be and it is

It was me as a kid

For the things that he did

Everything that he is

I believe that he is

Everything that he did

I believe that he is

Unbroken

Drea d'Nur:

Come & please hold me my friend

Trying to start over again

Cause no more lies to give

No broken promises

Now it’s time to live

Now it’s time to live