Following is the original
English text featured on a video of Iranian rappers singing
a song of protest against Syrian President Basher Al-Assad and Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev. The video
was posted on the Internet on February 19,
2012, Viewer discretion is advised.
"Battle for Homs,
Emad Ghavidel feat. Hamed Fard"
What is more enjoyable
than life!
Lose your life but do
not accept injustice,
Do not feel sad, good
times are coming.
Sometimes it is better
to listen than to sing about problems in my country.
Sometimes it is better
to zip up my mouth, while the world smells like my under arm.
That man who is going
to a fight like a small fish captured by a whale.
The whale that I am talking
about is called "war".
The war that our generation
felt well.
We understand that there
is
a reason behind all this.
Are there not enough
problems to solve?
Has everything become
free!!
There were authoritarian
regimes that used force, they still do.
Tunisia, Egypt, Libya,
and now Syria.
Until the United Nations
is drunk, children in Homs are shelled.
Hey, Medvedev, I do not
know what you are planning to do.
But the truth is that
you have become a bad name in history!
I swear to laments of
grieving mothers.
I swear to tears of grieving
mothers.
You will pay for it,
Bashar Al-Assad.
Even if I am drowned
in my own blood, I would not shut up…
You better know that
Iranians cannot keep quiet while you kill.
Your name is Assad, lion
in Arabic, but you are a lion with no mane.
Your name is Assad, lion
in Arabic, but you are a lion with no mane.
What am I saying, you
are not a lion, you are not even a hyena.
You do not even deserve
to be treated with anger.
Bashar Al-Assad has become
another Azrael, but the world talks about Israel.
There is nothing my words
can do, there is nothing the likes of us can do.
There is nothing my words
can do, there is nothing the likes of us can do.
Can you not hear people
begging for help? Why should people be killed with bullets, bombs, and
tanks?
It is a lie that Homs
is the city of long lived people.
I cannot eat anymore,
I cannot swallow food. They have destroyed my religion.
In Damascus, few special
people are laughing, but people of Homs are crying.
The man who used to take
his son to a gym should now see him laying down on a bed, dead!!
Medvedev, you have made
a dark film of our world. But do not think that you have won. You have
lost to history.
I swear to laments of
grieving mothers.
I swear to tears of grieving
mothers.
You will pay for it,
Bashar Al-Assad.
Even if I am drowned
in my own blood, I would not shut up…
You better know that
Iranians cannot keep quiet while you kill.
Your name is lion but
you are a lion with no mane.
What am I saying, you
are not a lion, you are not even a hyena.
You do not even deserve
to be treated with anger.
Do not think you have
suppressed your people, I can see the day you die of scare.
The day people around
you flee, but those you killed are immortals.
Although you kill some
with every rocket, but likes of you ended up like rats in a manhole.
Those who died and saw
swallows, those who died and were made free of your lies.
I had read fear in your
face even before I saw your face.
These sentences were
my poem.
Even in silence there
is a hidden pain with its secrets behind the curtain.
I separate your account
from this because I am angry with someone else [referring to the Iranian
regime].
But how can I leave my
country although I can reach Medvedev.
I want to spit on him,
but he is not worth it.
I swear to laments of
grieving mothers.
I swear to tears of grieving
mothers.
You will pay for it,
Bashar Al-Assad.
Even if I am drowned
in my own blood, I would not shut up…
"Dedicated to brave
people of Homs and all Syrians fighting for their freedom."