PUBLISHED: Dec 14, 2015
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بنت الخندق (bint el-khandaq)
هوني عندِك حياتك، وعندك كل عاداتك
وكبرتي كأن الإحساس بالغربة إنولد معك.
بطّل يساعك جلدك، ولا بيساع أحلامك
خيفانة تنامي سنين وتوعي وبعدك بنت بيِّك.
تِخونوه ايه، ما طول عمره بيخونكم.
تِبيعـوه ايه، ما طول عمره بيـبيعكم.
لمّا التربة مالحة ليش عم نزرع وُعود؟
قومي يا اختي سوقي فينا على الماكينة بلا ما نْعود.
بكرا مِنْعُود
إمّك قالتلك عادي، قال بكرا بتتعوّدي،
وبتحكي مع العالم حولك بس بعدك وحيدة.
والحقّ يقال جربتي، ولا مرة هربتي،
وبقيتي بالخندق بالخندق الغميق حاربتي.
تِخونوه ايه، ما طول عمره بيخونكم.
تِبيعـوه ايه، ما طول عمره بيـبيعكم.
لمّا التربة مالحة ليش عم نزرع وُعُود؟
قومي يا اختي سوقي فينا على الماكينة بلا ما نعود.
بكرا منعود
BINT ELKHANDAQ
Here you have all you’ve ever known, habits, life, and all.
But you were born a twin to estrangement, an that feeling too has grown.
Now your skin won’t contain you, or the dreams that do haunt you
And you fear sleeping for years and to still wake up as father’s daughter.
“Betray it? sure, it’s betrayed you your whole life
Be done with it? sure. It’s been done with you your whole life”
Why keep sowing promise in salted earth?
Ride that bike and drive us; we’ll never look back.
Tomorrow we’ll look back.
Your mother said it was normal, that tomorrow it would all feel standard,
So you speak to the world around you but you still feel perpetually alone
And truth be told, you gave it your all
You’ve always stayed here fighting from the trenches
“Betray it? sure, it’s betrayed you your whole life
Be done with it? sure. It’s been done with you your whole life”
Why keep sowing promise in salted earth?
Ride that bike and drive us; we’ll never look back.
Tomorrow we’ll look back.
Music by Mashrou Leila
Lyrics by Hamed Sinno
Produced by Samy Osta and Mashrou Leila
Recorded at La Frette Studios, France by Samy Osta and Mashrou Leila
Mixed by Frederic Vectol at Question de Son, Paris
Mastered by Mickael Rangeard at Question de Son, Paris
Strings performed by the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra,
F.A.M.E. 'S. Project, Skopje
Conducted by: Oleg Kondratenko
Orchestrated by: Dzijan Emin
3D Work by dArkroom
3D Aimation by Caustik
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