Kill them with Love

Contributor: Shashank Kalra

The title made me curious. Obviously, may be. But there's so much more than the surface meaning. I don't know this man, but have been stuck to some of his slams. Want to share this one, coming straight after touching my heart's strings. 

Here are the lyrics:

Show me a stranger

and I'll show you a friend that you haven't met yet. 

Because the obstacle in the way of anything

is usually just one of the prices of success. 

And people are more than numbers. 

To crack a smile is really no stress. 

Divide my time like economics, 

I love to say "Hi" and "Bye" less. 

Multiply first impressions by everything you might have guessed. 

Prejudice takes time but my time is business. 

And this just makes big dollars and sense. 

Why would you hate when love just costs less? 

In fact, the muscles it takes to make a frown 

make more work than to just turn it upside-down. 

But you hate it when I'm polite. 

Can't stand when I'm sincere.

Call me all these names. 

Wondering why I'm still just standing here? 

Mainly because your ignorance leads me to believe 

that you really just need a hug. (Laughter) 

And I've been public enemy number one 

ever since I learned to kill them with love. 

I am a psychotic serial lover. 

Seriously considering only complimenting our mothers,

because whether you like it or not, 

I am your brother. 

A teddy bear terrorist chilling with 

my well-mannered crew. 

Yeah, you're a racist but I'm gonna still hold the door open for you. 

'Cause seriously, dude, ain't no need for the attitude 

and I ain't mad at you, I had bad days too. 

Here's my celly. Let's talk. I'm a great listener too. 

Family driving you crazy, man, and I know I ain't do. 

Let me know. I love kids, I can be a babysitter too. 

Yeah, boy, 'cause I'm nice like that. 

I even watch your car if you promise that you'll be right back. 

So relax and be cool. 

Ain't no point in lying to you. 

I am a servant and my master sees all that I do.

So tell me what you need, dude. 

A dollar? Here, take two. 

Achoo! May a lord bless you, guide you, and make things easy for you. 

This respect thing is just what I do. 

And it's past tolerating. 

It's on the path of understanding and appreciating you. 

So tell me what you're gonna do when the love come for you? 

Insult my heritage? We're both from Adam and Eve, fool! 

Oh, snap! How you like that? 

You gave me extra change and I gave it right back.

I let people pass when they wanna switch lanes 

'Cause if it was me, 

I hope they'd do the same. 

You butchered my name but this is OK. 

It happens all the time. 

I won't correct it anyways. 

And it may sound strange but I'm a beat at change. 

Improve every day to prove their rudeness is lame. 

I believe in modesty and try to lower my gaze, 

and if everything is from above than everything is the same. 

I ain't impressed by money, cars, clothes, or fame. 

I am a Muslim, so the trinkets of this world don't mean a thing. 

I was taught that peace is not the absence of war. 

But peace is a feeling that can only come from remembering your Lord 

so for the sake of peace there's no point in hating me anymore. 

It's a big place. 

We can all live together in this world. 

I invite you all to join me in this jihad of love, 

and see first hand why fundamentalism still begins with fun. (Laughter) 

And if you don't agree I won't even judge. 

I just kill you all 

with love.

I feel a strange thing, some kind of opening in me, inviting everybody in. Feeling than I am other than this body and you are other than that body. And we interconnected in ways that rationality can't explain.