K'Naan - Fatima Lyrics
[verse 1]
Picture the morning, taste and devour,
we rise early, pace up the hour
Streets is rustling, hustling they heart out
you can't have the sweet with no sour
Spices, herbs, sweets and the flour
she came out precisely the hour
Clouds disappear, the sun shows the power
no chance of a probably shower
I feel in love with my neighbor's daughter
I wanted to protect and support her
Nevermind, I'm just 12 and a quarter
I had dreams beyond our border
Is it true when they say all you need is just love? (Is it true?)
What about those who have loved,
only to find that it's taken away?
And why do they say that the children have rights to be free? (To be free)
What about those who I've known,
whose memories still lives inside of me?
[chorus]
Fatima,
what did the young man say,
before he stole you away,
on that fateful day? (Fatima)
Fatima,
did he know your name,
or the plans we made,
to go to New York City? (Fatima)
[verse 2]
After school, we studied the lessons,
I asked God to slow down the seconds,
He does the opposite, that's what I'm guessin',
I better chill and count my own blessings
Fatima, Fatima
What is the matter?
How come you ain't come up the ladder?
So we can be like there is no tomorrow,
Damn, you gon make me wait 'til tomorrow
She spoke Arabic and Swahili,
She'd say "Upendo, Anta Habibi."
You so bright, you sound like my TV,
then one day, she never came to meet me
[bridge]
[chorus x2]
[verse 3]
If beauty was in the eyes of beholder,
how come everyone hushed when she walked by?
How come girls would look just to scold her?
How come the angel wanted to hold her?
Fatima, Fatima,
I'm in America,
I make rhymes and I make em delicate,
You would have liked the parks in Connecticut,
You would have said I'm working to hard again.
Damn you shooter, damn you the building,
Whose walls hid the blood she was spillin'?
Damn you country, so good at killin',
damn you feelin' for persevering.
[bridge]
[chorus II x2]
Fatima,
what did the gunman say,
before he took you away,
on that fateful day? (Fatima)
Fatima,
did he know your name,
or the plans we made,
to go to New York City? (Fatima)
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K'Naan Fatima Comments
I already hate my name and this song make me hated more
i love u knaan
I’m from Sudan and I love Somalis very much 😍😍😍😍😍
My name is Fatima too ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
🙏🙏🙏
💙💙
And by the way this is what u get when u take in an immigrant from Somali. Dangerous eh?
Love this song. Rips my heart out
Great song
Beautiful
My Sister Name's Fatima Ali
Team FATIMA, FATIMA ZAHRA ❤️❤️
My new fav song ❤
RIP hodan nalayeh 🧡
Thumbs Up if you are listening to this song in 2019
Any time I feel like I’ll never accomplish my dreams I think about K’naan and what he’s gone through to reach his. He is truly inspiring.
I love this song and I love my name even more than ever ❤️❤️
My name also is Fátima 🦋🌼
This man is so underated... his songs have so much meaning and lessons...the somali NAS...I love it!!
Who’s still listening April 2019🥰
Waan ku faraxsanahay inuu naga dhashay keynaan cimri dheer Abowe 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇩🇯🇩🇯
Wan ku faaneenaa
Who is listening Fatima 2019?
Me, for the first time
@Najah dhawre it is a gorgeous song who make me cry when i remember our country.
Hopefully better days are ahead, if not for us maybe our grandchildren will enjoy a peacefull life.
Inshaallaah, the eagle will be born again.
Of course
anybody 2019 ?
One love the whole world
love you brother
Mann throwback to 4th grade my teacher used to always play this song
Too bad this song is banned on the moon. I mean (shhh). I mean.... is this even a good song? I wonder.
Just heard this on CBC and bawled my eyes out
Listening in 2018/19?
I'm still here, still listening, still almost crying...
Can anybody out there there give me this song lyrics please
I actually cried... I'm usually don't cry 😭 ending got me
lol me2
G(OLD) Fatima 💜👀
Woow Abti😍😍😍
my ant fatima and me fatima my fatima jama
Haven’t heard this song in so long. Much love to the brother K’Naan, top 15 Greatest MCs to ever do it 🎤
Hi fellow Fatima’s
Knaan great artist 😍
Is it truuuuuu???
We're crying. Weeping. 😭😭😭
Brings back so many memories as a kid😭
This song and lyrics are genius, Just reading the lyrics makes me cry.
The mosT weirdest thing ever happened 2 me wa$ I wa$ hanging ouT with a guy & he played th!$ song in h!$ car 🚘 & wheN ever I heard my name I wa$ shocked 😳💏😅😭thanks kenan
viva mogadishu
this song is out of this world 💛💛
I wish if I was Fatima 😕❤
I doubt you want to commit suicide..
@adam yare She got shot
@adam yare nahh, the song is just too good to be true..
Hi ahlam
If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, how come everybody turned when she passed by....
Damn....
2k18,
Anyone?
Yep, still jammin this
big up 2k19
i felt selfish and bad for looking up my own name but me likey
My name is Fatuma and I still think it’s my name I don’t care what they say I think it’s all Fatuma and Fatiam
This is sad. But as he is telling celebration !
Instrumental please
I am speechless . Trully😭😭😢😢
this is the first time in my life to be moved to tears because of a song. i can't stop crying, it's so sad.
My best name Fatima 🧡🧡💯
So underrated man, what a shame..
Amazing artist
MY NAME IS FATIMA
Fatima Plays you are very lucky person lol
So is mine
2017^^^
R.I.P Fatima
This is the utmost romantic song to me.
فطيمة طيزها كبير
THIS SONG REMIND ME THE FIRST BITCH I FUCKED .....
insan sudani shut up
👌🏿
this is my shit
Listening to this in 2017
BTW this song is like super sad
we make fun of our cousin Fatima with this song. she hates it
dis mon iz de Buju Banton of Ifrica
Song of the day 22/11/2016: Fatima was also the name of a frequent girl in my neighborhood growing up, she came often to visit one of the boulder brothers. She too was like a boulder. but more supple than the brothers; her roundness cultivated naturally from an abundant nutrition. That unlike the brothers who immediately blanketed themselves in muscle as soon the hunger that we had always known began to show in their faces and the jutting of their bones and could no longer be dismissed as the lankiness of youth and young manhood.
08/07/2019: oh those plans for New York City...
Fatima what did the young man say before he stole you away?
no gunman not youngman
I'm pretty sure he combines the 2 (which is haunting in my opinion, it gives me chills)
The first chorus says young man, then the second chorus on the second verse says gun man.
Oh ya you're guys
oh my god, every time i hear this song I'm in tears!
God bless you beautiful sister for understanding the beauty of this wonderful i don't know why i can't find such truthful and beautiful person such as yourself it puzzles me i don't know why but cheers nd peace to you anyways?!
This song deserves a video.
nice my brother somali singer kynaan
fatimaa nice song i like it
thnkz kenan my my names fatima i like this song
beautiful song
why is this guys life not a movie yet!??!?!?
For real for real.... He should be bigger than Drake. In a proper society he probably would be.
He's underrated asf
Sounds From The Basement - because the music industry does not want to promote real music. It’s part of the plan to dumb down America with garbage pop music. The shit pop music is auto-tuned and the view counts are exaggerated on YouTube.
Because the music industry doesnt want anyone to promote this form of positivity unfortunately
Cus he's Muslim
K'naan songs are the only artist's songs that I can't relate to, yet can make me cry. So glad to have discovered him back in 2012.
I'm also Arabic <3
Fatima Mohamed also? Who else is arabic here?
My name is Fatima :P love this song
This song is so beautiful it makes me want to cry!
Love this song!
I wish there was one song like this in every mans ear after he shoot. Since I know the story behind I am always nearly loosing a tear when hearing or singing it. I often have it in my mind. Supernice song.
abdiwali bilal a earth powerful pass with knaan
beautiful.....
very nice music
RIP Fatima...
The Somali rap version of Tim McGraw's Don't Take The Girl.
2009 date of
EVERY GOOD SONG
Beautiful! Beautiful!
This song is so sweet and sad and beautiful
+Abi Fae but many people can't get it :)
is my favorite song
my name is Fatima and every time I hear this song i kinda want to curl up and cry because this is beautiful. <3
Fatima Chaudhry Are you Persian or Arabic right ? What did they do to our beautiful country. The last shall be first and first shall be last.
WHY DIDN'T YOU COME UP THE LADDER? :'(
Fatima Chaudhry iTs yOu!!
XD
Fatima Chaudhry oye Badtameez
world peace
Jeffrey Chatterton
no justice then no peace!
to me is just like nothing happened....more than that happens everyday in mogadishu...and some other parts of the world....peace to the world
ISLAM IS PEACE ISLAM ISN'T A PEACEFUL RELIGION .
ISLAM IS PEACEFUL WITH THOSE WHO ARE PEACEFUL WITH THE MUSLIMS.
Recognize and understand that the true enemy is and has always been white supremacy and those who support it like sisi and the house of saud.
white supremacy MUST BE DESTROYED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY for the sake of all humanity.
can anyone please teach me how to play this song in a guitar.
this is a song i actually listen to, but would never admit irl ... i feel like a pussy - need to feel manly :)
I love this song more then anyone else❤💚💜💙💛 i cry all the time over it it is so sad i feel bad for u and u still have not herd from her that is so sad 😢😢
+Nya Briggs R.I.P Fatima :(
Today.. First time I heard this song I was bored at skool and thought of listening to knaan saw this song and Its like the 10th time now I only heard it 2hrs ago lol I luv u knaan I'm so proud am somali #Fatima