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Are you all all alone, only you in history? Are you all all alone, only you in history? Al-Khwarizmi estimated the circumference of the globe At a time when Europe thought the earth was flat And couldn't tell the time of day, the astrolabe paved the way For the clock now I'm about to turn it back Was the medicine of Ibn Sina perceived as backwards When Oxford scholars deemed bathing a heathen practice? History from Aristotle to Al-Kindi as we gather Innovations of Ibn Haytham to da Vinci and the camera Ask Roger Bacon, Galileo and Adelard of Bath Ibn Shatir before Copernicus, century and a half House of wisdom, books waiting gold, answers to conundrums Cheng Ho sailed the sea before da Gama and Columbus You are not who they say you are, you're blessed with a choice Here since the 700's, look at King Arthur’s [?] coins You can do whatever it is that you wanna do There's a crater named after Al-Ma'mun on the moon So fly Are you all all alone, only you in history? Are you all all alone, only you in history? Civilisations build on each other, not each to their own My question: If people are equal like the teeth of a comb Letras de cancionesWere Jahiz, Mansa Musa, Malik Najashi; Abeed? I didn't think so but it seems Shaabi, nasi what I need Check yourself, check Raphael's depiction of Ibn Rushd Think twice, study history, give it a different look Curriculum's literally littered with pitfalls of ridicule Fatima al-Fihri founded one of the oldest still-existing schools It's deeper than some rhymes I'm providing for the listener No surprise for a spitter, the word cypher came from ṣifr Is the next Younis Mahmoud among four million orphaned babies? What if Yusra Mardini wasn't able to swim to safety? It could be Steve Jobs is starving under hisar It would be Zaha Hadid just died in an infijar Through your veins flow [?] Gilgamesh and Abu Nuwas Your future's bigger than the pain of your present and your past Just shine Are you all all alone, only you in history? Are you all all alone, only you in history? Condemned as the wretched of the earth, we strive to be free Fanon struggled for independence he wasn't alive to see The countrification, alienation, souls left so scarred Idarat altawahish decapitations on postcards The occupier left behind all forms of stigma Insidious settlement of the mind is more malignant From the ashes of war, no phoenix, that human is lost They learnt idarat altawahish from ensuing the cost We learnt resistance from Morheeba Korshid and Lela Khaled Learnt about Jamal from Bu Azza, Abu Basha and Bouhired If Abdelkader was reburied in Al-Jaza'er that's the Proof return will come for the diaspora of the nakba Not the first or the last to break free from the guillotine Yesterday Aljazair, tomorrow Philistine Not the first or the last to break free from the guillotine Yesterday Aljazair, tomorrow Philistine Are you all all alone, only you in history? Are you all all alone, only you in history? Are you all all alone, only you in history? From Letras Mania