Monday, November 16, 2015

Resisting the hate

Hello Charlie,
So I've been searching for like an hour to how to write a post (because something changed here!) and finally Matteo saved me so thanks you Matteo.
What is happened in Paris is just an awful thing, it's almost magical how someone could have that much of hate inside him/her to do something like this.
I don't know if you know, but in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq.... we're suffering from a dictatorial rule.(nothing really different from terrorists) So most of the new bands are trying to talk about that and criticize it through music. So I chose a song that I love and basically it's talking about resisting and to not shut up (sorry) when you need to speak and i thought it could be relevant of what's happening.
Mashrou' Leila ((Leila's project) Leila is a girl's name) is the name of this band and they are Lebanese. I translated it for you, it's just after the song. enjoy!


we can wait for the dawn, so we could finish counting the stars
and we repeat and repeat and repeat
we can carry the rocks, up to the mountain, and throw the
and we repeat and repeat and repeat

we can open our eyes when they throw dust in them, tell them we are still able to see!
we can refuse to eat each other, even when people could see our bones, tell them we're not hungry!

(long pose of beautiful music:P)

we can shake till it collapses, the cage the we've been in, tell me what are we afraid of?
we can stand till it's perish, the shadow that we've fought, tell them we are still resisting

we can take off, we can fly, when we've accepted crawling
if we bear the winter, the fate is the the spring..

(some mind calming music)

tell them we are still resisting 
resisting
resisting
resisting
tell them we are still standing
tell them we are still bearing
tell them we are still able to see
tell them we are not hungry
tell them we are still resisting
tell them we are not hungry
.....


if you liked them i guess you can find the songs translated in google, if you didn't I would be more than happy to translate them for you :)
 have a nice week. 
Judy A.



6 comments:

  1. Wow! That's really great! The message is great and so is the music itself. Thanks for sharing this with us!
    Felix

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  2. No problem :D
    great song, great lyrics, great article, thanks Judyyyy :D

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  3. Actually I don't really know the arabic music. But really I like this one. Also the lyrics are pretty good !

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  4. Good music. Aren't they facing problems because of what they are syaing by the way?

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  5. These women are so courageous!!! It talks about revolution, and I guess, also about the fact that women are equal to men. I'm respectful toward them.

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