Name: Sun Umber Shehzadiye
Duration: P00H07M15S
Description: This is the acappella track. It is a recording of only my voice without musical accompaniment: The victim of human's inhumanity, the Earth pleads with the Princess of the skies, whose domain he fugitive from Earth is now so impatient to intrude upon.

Sun Umber Shehzadiye

from Awaaz Te Parvaaz (Acappello) by Pashaura Singh Dhillon

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This is the acappella track. It is a recording of only my voice without musical accompaniment: The victim of human's inhumanity, the Earth pleads with the Princess of the skies, whose domain he fugitive from Earth is now so impatient to intrude upon.

lyrics

Originally in Punjabi, here are the translated lyrics:

=====LYRICS====
Umber Di Shehzadi

The victim of human's inhumanity, the Earth
pleads with the Princess of the skies whose
domain the fugitive from Earth is now so impatient to intrude:

Listen O Princess of the Skies
Let me pray for your well-being
I am your sister, the Earth
Do not think of me as an outsider

This is an age old story
We were dancing wildly
At full swing I lost my grip
Separated, I fell elsewhere

Then the dust of time
Cooled me off
I made friends with a human
Forgetting all about you

Relinquishing all I had
I handed him the keys
Despite reducing my existence to dirt
My yearning for him never waned

But I still havent been able to understand
What his humanity is
Cut and partitioned into pieces
I cried day and night

Suckled dry
By his religion, race and greed
How gagged and hogtied I lay
Come and take a look for yourself

I cannot count the grief
That he has given me
Because of him, I am being ignited from the inside
And my soul is burning

Poisons buried beneath my ocean floors
My rivers are open wounds
Toxic waste fills my pores
My air has become sickly

Searching high mountains and deep oceans
For a precious jewel he has lost
What he has lost here in me
He is seeking to find there in you

Having given me a cancer
He is now heading your way
It is not that I envy you
I could die tomorrow or today

I worry that you are naïve, innocent
Confronted with someone deceptive
You are an unopened, untouched bud
He is a bumblebee wearing boots

He smells buds after crushing them first
Twisting their branches along
His quest focuses on destruction
He has no use for life

Before making eye contact
Remind him of these words
When on all fours, he stood
Begging at my doorstep

Today in disguise
He appears at your doorstep
He is a fugitive from earth
Dont let him deceive you.