This is not just a music track but rather a shout out to everyone listening to stop for a second and think about important topics like discrimination, racism prejudice and social injustice that we have created over centuries and they are blinding us in our day to day lives. I have been playing guitars since I was of young age with the earliest memory from 1992. Only 2 years after we were allowed to go out from the bomb shelters of Beirut and back home. Forward 30 years from the end of the civil war, Lebanon is still in ruins. I came to the conclusion it is not easy to be Lebanese. Sometimes it feels like cancer, sometimes it is a blessing, but most definitely it is a very hard job! This is not limited to this war torn, politically corrupt and religiously segregated country. Any form of prejudice comes heavy, many nations have it worse, many races are discriminated, many cultures are framed. In 2020, I felt the need to record a track (i never sang and maybe i shouldn’t) that I can pass on to others in the hope that I could inspire them to accept the other without judgement. To give hope to those who are still oppressed in many parts of the world, to women, to black lives, to the lgbtq++ communities. Scientifically, we are all equal, we are one race, the human race, our blood is one color, our planet is the same. Our differences make us beautiful and stronger. Open up, ask questions and make apologetic mistakes without judgement, Every single journey is beautiful and we have to make sure that we provide equal opportunities to everyone.

I composed this track and worked on the music video during the US presidential elections especially after a crazy 2020 and it was really surprising to see the track gaining a lot of attention while being unlisted as I shared it with friends, cousins and expats in the US who shared it with their connections. In a way, I feel that this track has played a role in the US awakening in one way or another, even if it touched one soul or inspired one person. This is why I do music in the first place. To have a voice for the voiceless.

Artwork by Nadine Feghaly - @viola.illustration (cargocollective.com/viola)
Logo by Michael Al Asmar (www.behance.net/Micarea51)

Lyrics:
I have been living in fear
Haunted by a paper defining me
Playing hide and seek
With a past that discriminates me

I have been wondering why
The world denies me this high
That another is born with
While i am ripped of this desire

And who’s to blame
Who’s to call insane
That another human
Another person
Is getting punished for
What others have done

It is insane

There is something wrong
I cannot stay silent i must shout it out

All i want is to feel the air
Stop pushing me down
Under the water
All i ever need
Is to be unchained
All i ever ask is to be free