In The Beginning - K'NAAN

In the beginning there was hum

From a poet whose pulse fell

Drum drum drum!

He would perform prayers and all

Till one day he heard a voice call

Come come come!

Suspicious he moved with vicious caution

Dismisses, he thinks it’s a little off

People get held back

By the voice inside them

Yo

The voice said I’m poised to speak inside you

Rejoice and please let me invite you

To evil, greed and lies too

Yeah

Confused and dazed he moved in ways he soon became a kunni

Boom boom boom

And knock on his door his heart is no more

And knock on his door his soul is no more

Yeah

That was in the beginning

As the story goes on

So

The poet’s got a proposal

He would always hope but never know

What it feels to be free

He would be the frozen imposed as the chosen

All laws oppose him

But it would be greed

That’s got him there

He’s power hungry and proud too

People don’t care, people just scared

People don’t care, people just prayer

Yeah

That was in the beginning

There was a hum

And things change

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Say

It’s better to light a candle than to curse the dark

In the eyes of the youth there are question marks

Like freedom

Freedom for the mind and soul

We don’t see them

See them for their worth at all

That’s why we lead them

Lead them to these wars and what is it we feed them

Feed them our impurities and who it is we treat them

Treat them like the enemy humanity will need them

Need them like the blood we spill and we’re freedom

Freedom for the hearts we fill

Mislead them

They hunger for the love we give

But we cheat them

The cops beat them when all he wants is his freedom

So they defeat them

Whatever spirit he’s got

Beat him!

And they teach them that the rest of the world don’t need him

And he believes it’s a disease that he’s heathen

Put up your fists if all you want is freedom

Put up your fists if all you want is —

That was in the beginning

And things change

Yeah, yeah, yeah —

And we keep holding on

And we keep being strong

And we keep going on

And on and on and on

And we keep holding on

And we keep being strong

And we keep going on

And on and on and on