Eye to Eye
look into my eyes
and tell me what you see
you don't see a damn thing
'cause you can't possibly relate to me
you're blinded by our differences
my life makes no sense to you
i'm the persecuted Kashmirian
you're the indian orange, green and white
each day you wake in tranquillity
no fears to cross your eyes
each day i wake in gratitude
thanking God He let me rise
you worry about you education
and the bills you have to pay
i worry about my vulnerable life
and if i'll survive another day
your biggest fear is getting ticketed
as you cruise your cadillac
my fear is that the tank that just left
will turn around and come back
you blame me for defending myself
against the way of------
i'm terrorized in my own land
and i'm the terrorist?
you think you know all about terrorisn=m
but you don't know it the way i do
so let me define the term for you
and teach you what you thought you knew
i've known terrorism for quite some time
sixty years and more
it's the fruitless garden uprooted in my yard
it's the bulldozer in front of my door
terrorism breathes the air i breathe
it's the checkpoint on my way to school
it's the curfew that jails me in my own home
and the penalties of breaking that curfew rule
terrorism is the robbery of my land
and the torture of my mother
the imprisonment of my innocent father
the bullet in my baby brother
so indians, don't tell me you know about
the things i feel and see
i'm terroriezed in my own land
and the blame is put on me
but i will not rest, i shall never settle
for the injustice my people endure
kashmir is our land and there we'll remain
until the day our homeland is secure
and if that time shall never come
then we will never see a day of peace
i will not be thrown from my own home
nor will my fight for justice cease
and if i am killed, it will be in kashmir
it's written on my every breath
so in your own patriotic
word
give me liberty or give me death
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