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The artist Omar Offendum offers a tribute to and hope for the Syrian protests --- lyrics, taken from his blog, below the video:

Audio Sample taken from the largest Syrian protest to date, in Hama on 22 July 2011 --- "alsha3b yureed isqaa6 al-nitham (the people want to overthrow the regime)"

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." --- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Verse 1

The purpose of these verses is to unify the masses

7oms up to 7assakeh … Banyas to Damascus

City streets to countrysides

Mountaintops to coastal tides

Muslim / Christian / women / men & children

Lets keep hope alive

Stand in solidarity with all your fellow citizens

Peacefully protesting for an end to all the militance

Torture & imprisonment

Murdering of innocence

Proving that this lying/lion leader's rule is illegitimate

Like father --- like son

Mobster or president?

Censoring their people

Trying to stop the embezzlement

Heavy-handed iron fists

Dropped on the residents

Déjà vu...

'82 - '11...

We are all Deir Ezzor … We are all Dar3aa

We are all Jisr il-Shughoor … 7alab & the 2al3a's (castles)

We Are All 7amza ... We Are All 7ama ...

We Are All Syrian … Hands to the samaa2 (sky) saying:

"alsha3b yureed isqaa6 al-nitham"

Verse 2

I have a dream this regime will fall

And that what comes next

Will be better for us all

Alawite - Druze - Armenian - Kurdish

Equality in Parliament

"Il-Kull ilo Kursee" (Everyone gets a seat / is represented)

Envisioning a future that's brighter for the youth

Who've been fighting for the right

To shed light upon the truth

Biting bullets from the troops

Thus far a truce has proven elusive

But martyrs are tightening the noose

On corruption --- Bribery --- Nepotism

Tribal Disputes

Don't shoot with your mechanism

Soon come the reckoning that looms

Second guessing the protesters

Was a recipe for Assad to address his own doom...

Its been a long time coming

And there's no turning back now

Voices are the weapons

In these military crackdowns

Millions on the streets

In defiance of your gat sounds

Look who's got you shook

Doctor don't know how to act now...

"alsha3b yureed isqaa6 al-nithaam"

Verse 3

The immortalized words of Ibrahim Qashoush - Rest in Power / Peace khayyo . . .