Alexipharmic - Atefah lyrics

rate me

You were born in 88, never made it past your sweet 16

It seems dreams don't trickle down to peasants from queens

But please understand my habeebatee

Words can't communicate what you mean to me

Life ain't supposed to be a misery and mystery

It sickens me to think that you'd be lost into history

Until I die we fly to infinity I'll be sure the world knowsÉ

When your mother died at five in a sudden car crash

Your life was divided in the little shards of glass

You tried to hide it but these scars will last

It's hard to grasp another star collapsed

Your dad looked for visions of your mom in his arm

When he should've been looking in your eyes all along

Not realizing dawn when the sunrise is gone

So I do my best to right wrongs in this song

Hassan came along as a glimmer of hope

When your grandparents treated you like a ghost

And a hermit turned butterfly when love bloomed

But you weren't allowed to date so it had to cocoon

Innocence stripped at the hands of Ali

Darabee when you tried to break free

Until I die, we fly to infinity

I'll be sure the world knows

If the moral police were really doing their job

They couldn't have claimed to use Sharia Law

In the name of Allah, humanity and innocence

You were too jameelah in and out for imprisonment

1 secret kept, 3 years of abuse

1 prison sentence, 1 rope and 1 noose

1 hundred lashes for confessing the truth

1 little girl too pure for this world

I can see you in my mind's eye as you fly by

And I'd reverse time on Hahji Rezhi

If I could find how to rearrange the stars

Move space and time, break you out of your bars

Wipe the tears from your face, sew up your scars

Stop the whole human race in place for what they carved

Until I die, we fly to infinity

I'll be sure the world knows

Life is to be loved (and) love is to be lived

(And) You went to the light (and) you were just a kid

They do what they did cause they could see the spirit in ya

You stood up for yourself, you were life's taliba

Real woman fighting back when they tried to hide this

Voice for the oppressed in a world of laryngitis

Close your eyes with the knowledge you saved

A million other girls from an early grave

Atefah, you can now close your eyes

Spread your wings to the skies

Atefah, you didn't die in vain

I'll get this to change