turn coins turquoise! turn coins turquoise!

scarab tee lab — yalla yalla ya shabab! (hey!) —

turn coins turquoise! (ho!) — turn coins turquoise!

zeera zeera abla ya nazeera

zeera ya zeera abla ya nazeera

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

sit set shone... her stone her throne

turn turquoise not one of those guys

stand stone blue and ask all them

who why am i the question they wanna go through?

why am i the paper they wanna right on

and give advice and preach like nun and i sit like stone hearing the known listening not talking back

a stone waiting they finish waiting it ends

cause they say we are every friend

turn coins turquoise! turn coins turquoise! scarab tee lab —

yalla yalla ya shabab! (preach-preach-preach!)

so omen don't reach (preach-preach-preach!)

learn from who cant teach

she is witch — he has no faith — he drinks with disgrace

he deserves, she deserves — mmm, this talk preserves

turn coins, turn coins, oins-oins, turn coins turquoise, turquoise, uise-uise, turquoise! (tsk tsk tsk) —

they preach to feel safe (safe!) (tsk tsk tsk) —

they judge to feel brave (brave!)

zeera zeera abla ya nazeera

zeera ya zeera abla ya nazeera

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

write on me? the ink won't take —

turquoise drinks only what's real,

not fake you ask the stone "who?" —

but the stone asks you:

why you preachin' the known, when the known ain't new?

I'm not your paper, I'm not your nun —

I'm the blue that was here 'fore your sermon begun

a stone don't argue, a stone don't sway —

so keep your "should," keep your "shouldn't," walk away

turn coins turquoise! turn coins turquoise! scarab tee lab —

yalla yalla ya shabab! (preach-preach-preach!)

so omen dont reach (preach-preach-preach!)

learn from who cant teach turn coins, turn coins, oins-oins,

turn coins turquoise, turquoise, uise-uise, turquoise!

zeera zeera abla ya nazeera

zeera ya zeera abla ya nazeera

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

they see a stone in a hard-luck blue and they need a reason — "what did he do?" so they write on me to feel less afraid —

'cause if it's my fault, then they're safe,

they're saved but this blue was my mother's before it was mine — she wore the hard road and she still made it shine so your fear-dressed-as-advice? it won't sink through —

the stone heard the known... and the stone said: who?

yalla ya shabab —

gossip on the lab! turn coins turquoise! (they talk!)

turn coins turquoise! (we shine!) the stone don't care — turquoise, turquoise, everywhere (one more!) turn coins turquoise — ...and the stone, mefey... just shone.

zeera zeera abla ya nazeera

zeera ya zeera abla ya nazeera

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

zeera zeera abla ya nazeera

zeera ya zeera abla ya nazeera

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena

madhah خateera lekol ablah nazeera

rai-ah sekeena - bringo el sekkeena