NoteSpeak (Amori e Tragedie In Musica) 4 panel digipak Compact Disc
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lyrics
Samia Yusef Omar…
Faster-faster-faster-faster --
how you flew,
running while chained, you maintained every hope as you trained
your eyes on the pinnacle.
The Olympic --
Inspired, some would say even mystic.
Your name is a mantra for all women oppressed;
the nature and means in which you went about your quest
can only attest to your grandeur.
How you flew --
Samia Yusef Omar…
Faster-faster-faster-faster --
Radiating star
shooting through the darkness
look down
shine the path to take,
lead on, we will come.
Won’t forget --
Radiate you star
burnin’ brightly for the masses
look down and please
light the road ahead,
lead on, we will come.
Samia Yusef Omar…
Faster-faster-faster-faster --
I’ve read, that you were a
joyous girl,
though they called you a corrupted one --
Bright sun …
condemned for the sin of standing out
when that’s what being a star is all about.
Going about your business
fearless – with dignity, a sense of humor, as you tried
for your family, for yourself, to
find a way to live a life away
from the blunt edge of that blade – you stayed
in that Stateless Society born in 1991
just like you, and just like you it too died young.
It had not so much to do with anarchy as with insanity --
While it left behind chaos, death and pain,
you were left a heroine unsung,
yet you lit a light that still is hung…
What a journey to undertake
now that took guts, that took heart --
the cuts you had to endure on the way
indelibly imprinted on that fresh start;
Somalia to
Ethiopia,
Sudan to
Libya --
arrived in Tripoli, then,
headed for Europe, entry by Italy
…almost there, the very last leg.
Samia Yusef Omar…
Faster-faster-faster-faster --
Radiating star
shooting through the darkness
look down
shine the path to take,
lead on, we will come.
Won’t forget --
Radiate you star
burnin’ brightly for the masses,
look down and please
light the road ahead,
lead on, we will come.
"Musically & vocally, NoteSpeak consistently changes, shifting from style to style – acoustic jazz solos into hip-hop beats
into harmonized gospel vocals into electronic jazz and fusion into free verse rhyming – and yet seems to constantly groove... " All About Jazz Chris M. Slawecki...more
A story of sadness, confusion, and despair ending in hope and certainty that the cosmos is not a random and meaningless jumble of atoms populated by mindless mechanical men, but a world of meaning, beauty, and truth. Emotions and the heart are not everything, but they are an essential part of being human. ianjworsomething