Sunday, 29 December 2013

Decay...عفن القلوب

Edited by: Rou'a Nafea

When music talks of truth
When art becomes the voice
Of each hibernated soul
In the decay of morals
Of our country, or so it is called
Our oppressor, depressor, crusher, blood sucker
HOME!!!!!

When the music speaks our minds
When the tracks echo and scream
With the death foreseen
When the music becomes a dagger
And the throat is sore with words
And choked by internal bleeding

When the music is the alarm
When the tracks are bullets of death
When they tell you to wake up
Then you have to realize
If you don't hit the streets
We will hit the still growing minds
And they will know the real truth
Not the one foretold.

مزيج العفن بيصرّخ
قوم، فوق بقا، اصحى
مش احنا اللي عملنا كده
ده العفن اللي بيجري في عروق الخلق
مجرى الدم
ده العفن اللي ناشب في كل ركن
ده العفن اللي بياكل في لحم الناس و خلاص صديده فجر
و البتر على الابواب
بس احنا بقينا خلاص عاملين زي الدكتور الفاشل
اللي بيربط الجرح على وساخته
و يسيب الطفيليات تنهش في جتة المنكوب
و يقول معلش، اصل القهوة من غير وش

ياللي قاعد وشايف الضمير اللي ميت و لسة بيموت
و العفن بيجري في دم الخلق و الحشود
قوم و كون صوت الجبال و صوت الزحف و التعب
قوم نضف الجرح و داوي المرض
حارب العفن اللي طافح في القلوب
قوم و علي صوتك، دمر صريخ السكوت

Wednesday, 25 December 2013

The Light of my Unknown

Walking towards the end
The beginning of an unknown
I’m living a life
A life not of my own
My life hasn’t yet started
I’m walking down a road
A path that’s scary, and high
With one person leading the way
While he doesn’t know where to go 

I’m walking down a path
Unknown, unseen
Heading towards a light
Coming out of a tight stream
A path between two mountains
Drawing the rocks apart 
And I’m climbing up that road
Towards a light unknown

Take care not to fall
Off that tight road diverged 
In the rocky mountains, towards the light
Of the end of the beginning


Thursday, 19 December 2013

Loved me Back to life

…Beat…
Just listen to that 
It’s a beat
A warm beat
From my cold body

It feels
This touch
This smile on your face
It beats
My heart does

Eat…Feed…
The urge is no more there
PROTECT!
Is my solemn swear
With you, my heart beats

Corpse, dead…
A zombie, infected
…beat…
Can you hear it… BEATING!…?
My heart does

A change has come…
Memories, dreams, a warming sun
Love, acceptance
A lively beat from my heart
I feel your touch

You kept me safe
When I was trying to do the same
A lively corpse, heart beats again
You exhumed me, I’m revived
Your love awakened my extinguished sun 
You loved me back to life

Based on the movie Warm Bodies

Saturday, 14 December 2013

It’s Cold Outside

It’s cold outside, it’s freezing
It’s only one more sunless day
It’s a big cloud weeping
On the remains of the day
It’s cold outside!

It’s cold outside, can't you listen?!
Get dressed up, warm up!
I can barely feel my limps
While sitting by the fire
It’s cold outside!

It’s not a sun that is absent,
Disgusted by what it encounters everyday
It’s not a moon raging
And bringing on its dismay
It’s a war rising
Between what you should and what you may
It’s cold outside brother, it’s cold outside.

The streets are flowing rivers
With mud, blood, RAGE!
No matter how many layers you put on
You’re going to have a taste
Of the raining fire, the falling hail
It’s cold outside, sister, beware!

Put on your clothes, all of them
Stuff yourself, warm up
You’re still cold?! No way!
But you know why you’re cold?!
It’s only your heart that’s cold,
That thing in the middle of your chest is covered by ice
And there is no clothes that can unfreeze its stillness
So put on your clothes fellows, it’s cold outside!!!