Skip to playerSkip to main contentSkip to footer
Trey Knowles
  • 2 days ago
Trey Knowles' song "Arabic to English" examines the transformation of Jesus' image and message—asking how a man of Semitic origin came to be reimagined as part of a modern English cultural and ancestral identity.

Category

🎵
Music
Transcript
00:00How do I go from Indigenous Arabic to English, home of the British?
00:15Can you distinguish? Do you know the difference?
00:17Do we have the same spirit from Nero to Vala the Pile of the Vampire to King James?
00:22Don't you think that's strange? Are you questioning anything?
00:26How do I go from Indigenous Arabic to English, home of the British?
00:30Can you distinguish? Do you know the difference?
00:32Do we have the same spirit from Nero to Vala the Pile of the Vampire to King James?
00:37Don't you think that's strange? Do you question anything?
00:40How do I go from Indigenous Arabic to English?
00:43Open your eyes. Do their spirit match? Is it counterfeit?
00:47Then it becomes still, kill, and destroy, and confuse you.
00:50Then let nobody deceive you. Is it pagan or is it truth?
00:54Do I produce slaves? Do I put people with graves? Do I do evil?
00:58I tell you, they have no part of you.
01:01Do they produce the truth or do they produce a lie?
01:04Do their spirit match?
01:06How do I go from Arabic to English?
01:10Don't you find that strange?
01:11Do you question anything?
01:13Do you question anything?
01:13Those who are led by the spirit has crucified the flesh, and they don't do evil.
01:24Remember this.
01:25What bread are you eating?
01:27What table are you sitting at?
01:30Is it counterfeit?
01:32How do I go from Arabic to English?
01:33How do I go from Indigenous Arabic to English?
01:37Home of the British.
01:38Can you distinguish?
01:39Do you know the difference?
01:40Do we have the same spirit?
01:41From Nero to Vala to Vala to Vampire to King James?
01:45Don't you think that's strange?
01:46Do you question anything?
01:48How do I go from Indigenous Arabic to English?
01:50How do I go from Indigenous Arabic to English?