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If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine. I'm only the underline of the word. Yes, I'm like him, just like you, I can't tell you what to do. Like everybody else I'm searching thru what I've heard.
Whoa, Where do you go? When you don't want no one to know? Who told tomorrow Tuesday's dead
Oh preacher won't you paint my dream, won't you show me where you've been Show me what I haven't seen to ease my mind. Cause I will learn to understand, if I have a helping hand. I wouldn't make another demand all my life.
What's my sex, what's my name, all in all it's all the same. Everybody plays a different game, that is all. Now, man may live, man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky he must fall.
Now every second on the nose, the humdrum of the city grows. Reaching out beyond the throes of our time. We must try to shake it down. Do our best to break the ground. Try to turn the world around one more time. Yeah, we must try to shake it down do our best to break the ground Try to turn the world around one more time Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, education philanthropist, [4] and prominent convert to Islam. [5]
Stevens converted to Islam in December 1977 [9] and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity [10] and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2003 World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award, and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006, he returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. He now goes professionally by the single name Yusuf. [11][12] His most recent album, Roadsinger, was released on 5 May 2009.
The following day, Yusuf was denied entry and flown back to the United Kingdom. A spokesman for Homeland Security claimed there were "concerns of ties he may have to potential terrorist-related activities". [70] The Israeli government had deported Yusuf in 2000 over allegations that he provided funding to the Palestinian organisation Hamas; [71] he denied doing so knowingly. [72] Yusuf, who repeatedly has condemned terrorism and Islamic extremism, stated "I have never knowingly supported or given money to Hamas". [73] "At the time I was reported to have done it, I didn't know such a group existed. Some people give a political interpretation to charity. We were horrified at how people were suffering in the Holy Land." [72]
However, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added him to a "watch list". [21] The US removal provoked an international controversy and led British Foreign SecretaryJack Straw to complain personally to US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the United Nations. [74] Powell responded by stating that the watchlist was under review, adding, "I think we have that obligation to review these matters to see if we are right". [75]
Yusuf believed his inclusion on a "watch list" may have simply been an error: a mistaken identification of him for a man with the same name, but different spelling. On 1 October 2004 he requested the removal of his name, "I remain bewildered by the decision of the US authorities to refuse me entry to the United States". [76] According to a statement by Yusuf, the man on the list was named "Youssef Islam", indicating that Yusuf himself was not the suspected terrorism supporter. [16]Romanization of Arabic names can easily result in different spellings: the transliteration of the Islamic name for Joseph (Yusuf's chosen name) lists a dozen spellings.
Two years later, in December 2006, Yusuf was admitted without incident into the United States for several radio concert performances and interviews to promote his new record. [77] Yusuf said of the incident at the time, "No reason was ever given, but being asked to repeat the spelling of my name again and again, made me think it was a fairly simple mistake of identity. Rumors which circulated after made me imagine otherwise." [78]
Yusuf has written a song about the 2004 exclusion from the U.S., entitled " Boots and Sand", recorded in the summer of 2008 and featuring Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, and Terry Sylvester. [79]
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