Voices of a Forgotten History (Jon Thao)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

Voices of a Forgotten History

Generations upon a time where history scarred itself a fucked up face
Peace travel down a rugged path and became lost in its own existence
We have become the cavities stretched into society's fangs
Consecrated in the decay of our bloodstained past
So now our slained traditions in my veins
And though the pain is been instrumental
We continue to walk to different beats
Because there is no fuckin' peace

See I discovered the word "Hmong" pasted on the back of a milk carton with no reward
Chugged down by cultural braggadocios oblivious to the fact there was nothing more
Than assimulated holes
Victims of white America's oppression
And though their aggression
Once sung glorified songs of death and revolution
The weight of a guns supporting tickling my spine*
So I choose to kill with my tongue

Heaven (7th Day Rest)

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Heaven

Mister, mister, what's your name?
Come and tell me all your pain
Come and tell me what you need
Come and be with me

Heaven is closer than you know
Open up your eyes
Freedom is just a breath away*

Heaven is closer than you know
Open up your eyes
Freedom is just a breath away*

No More (P.H.oice)

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No More

I've seen the videos and witnessed what I did not know
My people suffer the pain that kept them years ago
I've seen the pictures of my Hmong crying out for help
My elders on their knees praying, "God, help us please."

No more no more
Will you suffer no more
For each soul that dies
One is born

Txhob qua txhob qua
So koj lub kua muag
Ua pa ib zaug ntxiv
Ua neeg nyob tsis yooj yim

No more no more
Will you suffer no more
For each soul that dies
One is born

War on the Inside (Ecnelis)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

War on the Inside

Walking over the ocean looking for reflections
But the tears fall down and ripples distort the images

I cannot see myself anymore
And I know that you know
There are just too many tears to count

These clouds are their faces
Their tears reveal something
That I need to know

This is the battle I'll fight
Fighting this war on the inside
The stakes are more than my own life
It's yours

Third World Poetry (Ill Ego Aliens)

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Third World Poetry

"Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men?"

Universe collide, suicide thoughts survive
Revival of the fittest, survival of the shittiest
Giving this species another taste of the species
Pieces of the puzzle demand the sunshine
Plus seasons change and leaves a passion in landmine
If mankind reaches for any signs of peace
Given what they got the living truth release yo
Pitching in the pot collecting for the deceased now
See them overseas see them go into war
See they got their reasons see them dying for
Their own personal freedom you got yours
It's a crying shame, it's a crying game
It's a no-win situation and everyone's a loser
While we wait here patiently given bruises and bullets
I'm ready to pull the plug fix this nation here
Fix this facial expression God is what you're here for
The next killer to penetrate
Innocents are proven guilty
Yet we kill these children of the world
Turning the children of war
Life based on the movie that's rated R
So we got to kill these kids
So their wings doesn't soar*

30 Year Secret (Delicious Venom)

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30 Year Secret

Thirty years of war persecuted and scorned
Behind enemy lines a small child is born
What will he live for fighting for the rest of his life
Gunshots, chemical bombs or sliced with a knife

Shrapnel within flesh children poisoned to death
Defend the villages soldiers killed in combat
A contract that's been cracked split up and attacked
With no tracks and they only fight back

For survival reasons
And they wish to the sky for the will to keep breathing
The jungles are a prison
Scarred into our visions
Now I want you to listen
'Cause our people have risen

Pitiful Amnesty (F.I.R.E.)

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Pitiful Amnesty

My people fall and fall and fall
Watch me fall and fall and fall into hell
Watch me fall into the deepest pits of hell
Where the air is razor sharp slicing cells in the process of meiosis
Listen to my people's screech for help
Slowly penetrating deep within their graves
Bloodcurdling screams injects life back into my ancestors long deceased

Sleep disturbed by the genocide occurring in your world
Just on the other side of the globe
Worlds collide from the dark tops of deceptions
We find ethnic cleansing within the jungles of deceit
The government refuses to lend a hand
Afraid to intervene but intervene they did thirty years ago
This supposed to be the land of opportunities
Do your part

Voices of Sorrow (New Breed)

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Voices of Sorrow

suav txij li thaum lub teb chaws ntxeev
vaj pov tau tso looj ceeb khiav tawm nplog teb mus lawm
phaj thiab laj los kav lub teb chaws
hmoob nplog pub thawj tau txais txoj kev nyob txom nyem

nplog liab ua phem zuj zus rau hmoob
sau sev lia tej qoob loo nrhiav txim rau cov txawj ntse
cov neeg zoo raug ntes thoob nplog teb
tseg poj tub sev ua ntsuag txiv mus lawm ntsiag to

Fallen (TransitLife)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

Fallen

We live in this life
Where dreams are far away
And darkness in the rain

We dream upon the stars
We’re standing here alone
When will I be home?

And I believe it’s fate
To be standing here
Alone in fear

War Don't End (Power Struggle)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

War Don't End

The war didn't end when Saigon fell
The CIA's got a story to tell
Bout the secret army from the mountains of Laos
And the people were promised that we'll get them out

They got so poor didn't foresee
The communist party claiming victory
Hired guns now run for the hills
They run and since day one survivor skills

Peb Cov Hmoob (Karma)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

Peb Cov Hmoob

Our Hmong

For our lost to people

es kuv cov neeg tau poob zoo tag nrhiav tsis tau txoj kev txog tsev
mus qhov twg peb hnov suab phom peb ua zoo li caj lawv nhriav tau peb
kuv pom lawv tej me nyuam saum rooj tsis muaj txiv, mus tua rog tag
kuv noog lub ntuj ua cas peb hmoob tsis muaj hmoo peb tiag li zoo li no

Hey my people have lost their way, they can't find their way back home
Wherever we go we hear gunshots, no matter what we do they find us
I see children in the mountains, no fathers, they're all at war
I ask the Lord why do we Hmong have no luck, why we end up like this

I Wish I Was An Angel (Yangmee Lor)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

I Wish I Was An Angel

Your heart wonders if we're gonna make it through
Torn apart from the land that loves you
Running from your fears every day
Wishing, hoping that there will be a place to stay

Crying to sleep every single night
You're a star, hope and faith inside
So many years has gone past
Your pain and sufferings will sure to last

Roots of My Mother's Life (Victoria Vang)

Transcribed by NVVICIOUS

Roots of My Mother's Life

Over the land and sea and back to the roots of my mother's life
I have a dream that we can free those in need

Cuz there is something we all can do
And it lies beneath the skin
There is something, we face the truth
And we fight till we have won

Peb Haiv (Shattered Echoz)

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Peb Haiv

Nco txog peb haiv hmoob
Kwm ciaj kwm tuag nyob saum roob
Tsis muaj leej twg paub mob kuv siab
Tsis muaj leej twg nco txoj kuv sia

Kev npau suav ploj tag
Sov yuav pib dua qhov twg
Los peb sib koom los txhawb peb haiv hmoob

Hnov neb suab ua kuv quaj
Cia li so neb cov kua muag thiab nws yuav
Tseem yuav muaj ib hnub lub ntug mam ntsha ntug rau peb
Los peb sib sau ua ib kev
Los peb sib sau ua ib kev, ib kev
Los peb sib sau ua ib kev

Watch Over Me (Watching Leona)

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Watch Over Me

What lullabies do they sing before they go to sleep
What does tomorrow bring I hear my mother weeping
Forgotten soldiers stay awake although their eyes are closed
They watch the sky, watch the sky and sing their lullabies
There's more to life than this, they promised me
There's more to life than this

Someone watch over me, help me find paradise
Angels watch over me, help me find paradise
Someone watch over me, help me find paradise
Angels watch over me, help me find paradise

The H Project: Silence No More

Hello. NERO here.

The H Project is a compilation CD that includes a variety of musical genres
such as rock, hip hop, R&B, folk, spoken word poetry, and more
by artists from all over the country who have written songs and poems to raise awareness
about the current human rights violations and genocide of the Hmong people in the jungle of Laos.