This masterpiece came to life through collaboration between the hearing and deaf communities in the West Bank. However, the collaboration was about more than simply producing a stellar music video; we want to produce continual solidarity between these communities.
Please assist us in generating global solidarity and awareness!
We ask you to please share this unique gift of music in honor of the deaf community living in Palestine!
Verse 1
The sun rises
A beautiful girl
dresses into school uniform
She arrives to
class and sits at her desk
She sees the
teacher speaking, but she didn’t hear
She complains, but
the teacher didn’t understand
It’s the situation
of silence,
‘From inside, I’m
talking
But there is no
response
I try to express
myself, but they face me in rejection’
She didn’t try the
to write her papers
Rather she paints
an educational system that needs to be destroyed
The time is up, and
the paper remains empty
Who must be blamed?
A deaf person who
has the right to receive special treatment,
Or and educational
system who does not recognize special needs?
So the result is no
ink on the paper
She fails, but not
because she didn’t study
It’s not about
difficulty in learning
But it’s the
problem of adapting to a disorganized educational system
‘They want me to
learn, but without a translator
In the class
everyone was talking
And I was trying to
understand, but I couldn’t
There’s a feeling
that something is missing
Am I different, or
is the community just crooked?
Not accepting a
deaf who needs to learn
Verse 2
I have 17
certificates
Yet it’s impossible
to find a job
Why? I don’t know
I’m qualified,
capable and I am not disabled
Unfortunately I am
living in a society that can’t communicate with deaf people
I want to do
something for the country
But the people in
the country don’t want anything to do with me
I don’t want your
sympathy
I want you to
appreciate me
Together we can
build a community, which will accept me
There is no equality
in marginalization
I refuse to live on
the margin with minds that have intellectual apathy
I am deaf, but I am
able to say what’s on my mind
Erase your tears;
do not cry
I am not indigent
Your sadness for me
is a knife in my heart
I want you to
actually know me
I want to build
communication bridges
If I am just some
dependent obstacle,
God would have
never created me
Verse 3
After the
difficulties in graduation and finding a job
I wanted to marry,
But I was confused
Shall I marry a
girl who talks or a girl who is deaf?
But I wasn’t given
any choices
The community is
not for the deaf girl, because we’ll make deaf children
But between the
talking girl and I,
There’s no
communication
I am deaf, but I
have feelings
I just want to
marry a deaf girl
It’s not discrimination
But it’s just
addressing my reality
The reality that
represses my category
So what’s next?
Are the people
going to give me my freedom?
Will they take my case
into consideration?
Do not deny my
existence
I have my own
identity
We can’t change our
place or the time
But we can change
the human mind
For those who talk,
I have a question
If you were in my
shoes, what would you choose?