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!!!


Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Make Me Sound

Disclaimer: This piece might be inappropriate for some audience. Please, if below 18 DO NOT READ 

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Hold me like nobody does
Kiss me like it’s our last kiss
Play my music with your touch
Make me sound

This hand of yours on my lips
This embrace, this bliss
This grace of happiness when we kiss
Just make me sound

Pull the strings, let the wolf in me out
Unravel the wilderness within my tamed calmness
Play my notes and make me sound

It’s in your arms that I can be
The woman I ought to be
I complete you and you complete me
We both play each other’s melodies
So press my pedals and make me sound

Hold my head in your palms
Pull me closer to your heart
Penetrate my crust with your tenderness
Let me indulge in your cosmos 
Give free rein to my heart 

It’s in every time that we are together
I solve the mystery of the macrocosm
My heart beats with your breaths and travels
To a different earth, a different realm
You make me sound

You wipe out all the miseries 
All the torment in my previous existence
You play my notes with your eyes 
That communicate with my broken ones
Your music make me sound

So never let me go 
And kiss me hard as you do 
Never take my world away
And look into my eyes as you tame my beast
Undress me with your every move
As we just let the music carry us 

Be the painter and let me be your colours
Let us draw our universe
Let our symphony echoes 
As we both come together

Teach me more about love 
As you compose our masterpiece and carve it down in time
Never let go of this, never let go of me
I sound by you and you sound by me

In our moment of ecstasy, make our music sound


Saturday, 23 November 2013

Cut

Cut
Cut through this flesh
Cut through its surface
Cut too deep till you penetrate its other side

Cut
Cut through these veins and see the blood flow
Cut so sharply and so steadily
As you hear the sound of the blade thriving with ecstasy

Cut through this flesh
Feel your heart beats accelerate
Cut and breathe heavily
As you feel a burning itch in the back of your head

Cut, and triumph with the scream of pain
Echoing, yet silenced by that grin
Drawn on your face as you gain
Your strength and power through the blood shed

Sharpen your blade, sharpen your teeth
Practice your smile and your tears
You’re going to need them desperately
When the time comes and you’re asked to justify your deeds

Monday, 4 November 2013

نسيان

اغلط و اندم و انسى انك غلطت
 قوم تاني يوم و غني و انسى الوش الكِشِر
اقف اتباهى بنفسك و قول انا زي الفل
ايه يعني اللي هايجرا لو نسيت و قلت "تُبت"
قوم سطر الكراس و شكل المكتوب
قوم زوق الكشكول و لون المرسوم
قوم قول انا اللي بادي و انا بمزاجي ناهيها
انا عمري ما اكابر لكن دي الحقيقة
قوم ارسم الابتسامة بتاعة كل يوم
قوم نافق و جمِّل كدبك على كل شكل و لون
قوم خادع زمايلك و اخدع نفسك معاهم
قول انا احسن من ناس كتير، قول انا احسن منهم
خد بملو ايدك الوان الطيف السبعة
لون بها السواد الطافح في قلبك
ارسم الضحكة العفيفة، البريئة، البشوشة
وغش بها نفسك وصدق كدبتك
وروَّح بليل و اغلطت واندم وانسى انك غلطت
و قول انا لسة قدامي دنيا و هصلح الغلط
و استغفر و توب و نام و تاني يوم قوم
واتمرمغ في عذابك اللي بتزيده كل يوم
ارسم الضحكة على وشك البسوم
و اهو ده بقى الطبيعي، انك تغلط و تنسى
و تكدب على نفسك بانك متحكم في الامور
لكن اليوم هايجي، و اعرف انه قرب
هتعيط و تقول يا رتني ما غلطت
ولحد ما تعرف غلطك، و تدوق طعم الندم
و المرة دي بجد حيبقى اجمد قلم
قوم غني و انسى غلطك و ارسم البسمة السعيدة
واتباهى بنفسك و صدق انها الحقيقة
قوم سطر الكراس، قوم زوق الكشكول
قوم ارسم الابتسامة بتاعة كل يوم
قوم نافق و جمِّل كدبك على كل شكل و لون
قوم خادع زمايلك و قول انا احسن من دول و دول