Self-immolation to spark a nation
Against decades of idle negotiation
Salvation from public humiliation
Igniting MENA's resignation
Oil-drenched arson of the human soul
Can never wholly console
Holy tyrants whose faith lies in green
gods we trust, the likes of which we have not seen
Personified Benjamins fighting about whose to blame
Who have lost their lives and their neighbors' just the same
With no ready answers and even harder questions
As the emblazened once asked: Is it even worth it to mention?
Bouazizi's humble life and tragic revolutionary zeal
With dreams of an Arab Awakening or even a simple meal
So that men will be greater than gods by faith in someone
Who became a phoenix rising in the heat of an Arab son.
Against decades of idle negotiation
Salvation from public humiliation
Igniting MENA's resignation
Oil-drenched arson of the human soul
Can never wholly console
Holy tyrants whose faith lies in green
gods we trust, the likes of which we have not seen
Personified Benjamins fighting about whose to blame
Who have lost their lives and their neighbors' just the same
With no ready answers and even harder questions
As the emblazened once asked: Is it even worth it to mention?
Bouazizi's humble life and tragic revolutionary zeal
With dreams of an Arab Awakening or even a simple meal
So that men will be greater than gods by faith in someone
Who became a phoenix rising in the heat of an Arab son.
