K’naan - God On Our Side lyrics

It's a movie and the whole
World is viewing it
And the popcorn is dreams torn
But we're always chewing it
The set design is by God but
The costumes by the devil
And the screenplay is adapted from
A book that's embezzled

This is where I grew up
This is where I grew proud
This is where neighbors never say
Music is too loud
This is where the streets have no name
But they have history
This is loss is victory
Oh my name it ain't nothing
My age it means less
The country I come from could
Be like the rest
I was taught and brought up there
Laws to abide and the land that I live in
Has God on it's side

I was young I grew i could tie my shoe
I was blind
But I knew that I would always see blue
Blue seas I see through on
The bottom I'll meet you
And when we come up for a breath
Would you mind if I kiss you?

Childhood came up for the kiss
But it slips it's pain in with mist
And the sunny skies came and I missed it
Vanished and windswept
Landed and we slept in
The arms of convenience, blanket obedience

Now Somali-American war had it's day
And the Civil War too was soon laid away
And the names of our warlords
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands, they said
God's on their side

I had an undying wish to keep from dying
I had an untimely hitch keep me from climbing
But I climbed the hitch it'self
And I tried flying
I had an uprising in my soul
The left was fightin' the right
And the right was fightin' the light
And the light was blind in the night
And the night woke up in tears
When my fingers went to wipe them
They became a poem but to write then
They would have to speak
Tears in another language
That would take years now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head and fall to the floor
If God's on your side then
Would you ever need war?