Shahin Najafi, Tarafe Ma: Around Us [Our Hood]
Check out this music video from Iranian poet, writer and songwriter Shahin Najafi. For a full translation of the lyrics, please click through to the YouTube page.
From the day I opened my eyes, there was the war. In fathers hand there was a gun instead of a pen. The answer to each of my questions was a rock. Let me tell the story for once. You and I both know the pain and the roots. Let me think I am a human, for once. Let me think I live in a normal [healthy] society, for once. Let me forget that Ive been beaten in the head for 20 years; that I am worthless, dirt, left over. Let me close my eyes and not see [witness] my sisters gaze, my mothers cry. Let me close my eyes and say that I am fortunate; that I have a tomorrow and I look forward to it. You laugh inside if you are pampered in abundance. But life for us is something else. Its the moments which have passed in dreams. The red tears...
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