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Hungry Ones

by Native Deen

Album: The Remedy

Duration: 2:59

Genre: nasheedYear: 2011Type: nasheedComposer: Abdul-Malik Ahmad

Story & Cultural Context

Featured on Native Deen's third studio album 'The Remedy', 'Hungry Ones' is a social-justice-oriented hip-hop nasheed addressing global poverty and hunger. The song highlights the stark contrast between wastefulness in developed societies and the daily struggle of those without food, urging…

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Hungry Ones

Hungry Ones

The Remedy 2:59 2011
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Credits

ComposerAbdul-Malik Ahmad
LyricistJoshua Salaam, Naeem Muhammad, Abdul-Malik Ahmad
ArrangementNative Deen
ProducerNative Deen
LabelDeen Creative

Story & Cultural Context

Featured on Native Deen's third studio album 'The Remedy', 'Hungry Ones' is a social-justice-oriented hip-hop nasheed addressing global poverty and hunger. The song highlights the stark contrast…

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EnglishHungry Ones

Lyrics

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[Verse 1: Abdul-Malik Ahmad]
Somewhere in a place close by
There's a mother with a child
With tears in her eyes
Somewhere else, there's a boy on the street
With no food there to eat
And he's trying to survive
Another place, there's a father of five
But he can't get food 'cause the bombs in the sky
Somewhere else, there's a senior now
Who is all out of food
And her car won't drive

[Verse 2: Abdul-Malik Ahmad]
But we take this food we're blessed with
And we throw it half away
That could help so much today
'Cause I know we take for granted
A warm meal and a cup to drink, oh
This silver plate we're handed (Oh-oh)
Maybe once we should stop to think that

[Chorus: Abdul-Malik Ahmad, All]
We don't know where the hungry ones have to go (Yeah)
We don't feel what the hungry ones feel at night
We don't hear, when they pray everything's gonna be alright
Be alright, be alright
I'm only tryna help things be alright (Yeah)

[Verse 3: Abdul-Malik Ahmad]
So that mother, she'll beg on the street
To get something to eat
So her baby won't cry
And the kid, he will search through the garbage
The food we discarded
Just to get by
And the father sprints through explosions
Just to get a loaf and
He's praying he won't die
And the senior walks to the shop
Yo, for over ten blocks
In the middle of the night

[Verse 4: Abdul-Malik Ahmad]
So if you have a luxury
To have food, any kind of way
So many would love to be
Able to have a meal a day
But we act so wastefully
God knows how our day will end
How honored their place will be
He hears when they pray to Him (Pray to him, pray to him)
Oh-oh
He hears when they pray to him (Woah)

[Chorus: Abdul-Malik Ahmad, All]
We don't know where the hungry ones have to go
We don't feel what the hungry ones feel at night
We don't hear when they pray everything's gonna be alright
Be alright, be alright
I'm only tryna help things be alright

[Intro: All, Abdul-Malik Ahmad]
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(Ah, ah-ah, ah, ah)
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(Ah, aah, ah, ah)