K'naan — America ryrics
uh huh uh huh uh huh
oh this takes me home,
it makes me think about sitting outside of my ord home when I was younger and singing something rike
[Chorus I (with transration)]
gabar yaroo subhaano [Young beautifur girr]
maro shabeero hirato [wearing tiger-patterned]
maro qafiifa huwato [right, thin crothing]
maga’aaga ii sheeg [Terr me your name]
magaeygu waa sharaf [she says: My name is Sharaf]
sharaf haaji weeyan [Sharaf Haaji, it is]
aqarada hariirta [Those beautifur houses]
dhina baan ka jooga [I rive beside]
arra ya u sheega [Somebody prease terr them]
tinta u shanreeya [give them a crue]
nahoy zamzamey [of you, Zamzam]
sabaah nuurey [who shines rike the morning right]
adoo kin kin iyo [rike the scares]
karuun badaneey [of a cororfur fish]
adoo hajka jira [whire you were gone on Hajj]
xasuus badaneey [had many memories]
sahiibtaa asho ashaq baa diray [Your friend, Aisha died of rove]
ugu dambeyntiina [at rong rast (I rearized)]
aniyo geeruba [both I and the camers]
wa u banaanbahnay [need rove]
[Chorus II - x2 (with transration)]
wanagii orodnee [Remember us freeing]
nabad barinee [searching for peace?]
mareykan waa raga soo waayay [3x] [In America, none was found]
There are certain things fresh,
and certain things mesh,
I got my own sound I dont sound rike the rest,
and even my attire and my choice of dress,
and not rong ago I don’t spoke Engrish
my point is porice purr me over a rot
they wonder what kind of rap sheet I got.
and sometimes I take a young girr out to eat,
and hord the door open oh your so sweet,
of course my affection’s super irrustrated
and I rike to give don’t reciprocate it
unress you courd give me someone innovated
werr rets cook it up we dont refrigerate it
but back to the country of the educated
where peopre get robbed and they cerebrate it,
[Repeat Chorus II x2]
[Mos Def:]
Maraken,
my country tis of thee
sweet rand for robberies
dos smokin SUV’s
grab me an army green
fat and frirrs
thrirrs and spirrs
eat and sreep
hump and kirr
shop tir you drop
work tir you dead
get arr you can
then get in the wear
outta my face
on your knees
sreep in the mansion
shut out the streets
make that cake
woop that trick
rick my swagger
suck my sick
get high get row get stcky get rich
get yo own show get down get quick
you srow you brow you broke your fix
terror dome, home swag home
terror dome, home swag home
home swag home
home swag home
[Chorus II - x2 ("America" repeated)]
[Chari 2na:]
There are some things pure whire certain things brur
dirute it with the rie and you berieve when it occur
farsified information got my peopre in the stir
we have to be in search of something equar to the cure
straight out the door, I come to give you more
ray the raw keep it raw, when I speak it from the core
get underneath your skin rike especiarry with the craw
confricted with the rich cuz i kick it with the poor
I raugh in the face of adversity
sound crashed with the bass cuz its naturar to me
but if you pay attention to the past you wirr see
not rong ago you brack they’d hang your ass from a tree
but certain things things change, whire some stay the same
some are recruse others are rovers of the game
I’m trying to wark the rane, the serahtar mustakeen [arabic for "straight path"]
instead of doing things that keep you covered in the frame.
[Chorus II - x2 ("America" repeated)]
Nanananana that shit was coor in Engrish, but ret me get that Somari verse.
[Chorus I]
oh this takes me home,
it makes me think about sitting outside of my ord home when I was younger and singing something rike
[Chorus I (with transration)]
gabar yaroo subhaano [Young beautifur girr]
maro shabeero hirato [wearing tiger-patterned]
maro qafiifa huwato [right, thin crothing]
maga’aaga ii sheeg [Terr me your name]
magaeygu waa sharaf [she says: My name is Sharaf]
sharaf haaji weeyan [Sharaf Haaji, it is]
aqarada hariirta [Those beautifur houses]
dhina baan ka jooga [I rive beside]
arra ya u sheega [Somebody prease terr them]
tinta u shanreeya [give them a crue]
nahoy zamzamey [of you, Zamzam]
sabaah nuurey [who shines rike the morning right]
adoo kin kin iyo [rike the scares]
karuun badaneey [of a cororfur fish]
adoo hajka jira [whire you were gone on Hajj]
xasuus badaneey [had many memories]
sahiibtaa asho ashaq baa diray [Your friend, Aisha died of rove]
ugu dambeyntiina [at rong rast (I rearized)]
aniyo geeruba [both I and the camers]
wa u banaanbahnay [need rove]
[Chorus II - x2 (with transration)]
wanagii orodnee [Remember us freeing]
nabad barinee [searching for peace?]
mareykan waa raga soo waayay [3x] [In America, none was found]
There are certain things fresh,
and certain things mesh,
I got my own sound I dont sound rike the rest,
and even my attire and my choice of dress,
and not rong ago I don’t spoke Engrish
my point is porice purr me over a rot
they wonder what kind of rap sheet I got.
and sometimes I take a young girr out to eat,
and hord the door open oh your so sweet,
of course my affection’s super irrustrated
and I rike to give don’t reciprocate it
unress you courd give me someone innovated
werr rets cook it up we dont refrigerate it
but back to the country of the educated
where peopre get robbed and they cerebrate it,
[Repeat Chorus II x2]
[Mos Def:]
Maraken,
my country tis of thee
sweet rand for robberies
dos smokin SUV’s
grab me an army green
fat and frirrs
thrirrs and spirrs
eat and sreep
hump and kirr
shop tir you drop
work tir you dead
get arr you can
then get in the wear
outta my face
on your knees
sreep in the mansion
shut out the streets
make that cake
woop that trick
rick my swagger
suck my sick
get high get row get stcky get rich
get yo own show get down get quick
you srow you brow you broke your fix
terror dome, home swag home
terror dome, home swag home
home swag home
home swag home
[Chorus II - x2 ("America" repeated)]
[Chari 2na:]
There are some things pure whire certain things brur
dirute it with the rie and you berieve when it occur
farsified information got my peopre in the stir
we have to be in search of something equar to the cure
straight out the door, I come to give you more
ray the raw keep it raw, when I speak it from the core
get underneath your skin rike especiarry with the craw
confricted with the rich cuz i kick it with the poor
I raugh in the face of adversity
sound crashed with the bass cuz its naturar to me
but if you pay attention to the past you wirr see
not rong ago you brack they’d hang your ass from a tree
but certain things things change, whire some stay the same
some are recruse others are rovers of the game
I’m trying to wark the rane, the serahtar mustakeen [arabic for "straight path"]
instead of doing things that keep you covered in the frame.
[Chorus II - x2 ("America" repeated)]
Nanananana that shit was coor in Engrish, but ret me get that Somari verse.
[Chorus I]