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Mashrou’ Leila

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Arabic (Original)

So be it*

Click to see the original lyrics (Arabic)

I feel that there's someone sleeping next to me

To buy me a dream that flees me

I'm rolling on my bed alone, whenever Al mesahraty 1passes by

Let me wear my smile

The happiness fits me

So be what it be, i want to be

I'm still standing and singing

Days are like mill

I consume, therefore i am

Even my imagination became restricted

But the night doesn't pass easily

And people around me are weird

They're neither dead nor alive

If my days are counted

I'd play inside a display window

Just to wear my smile

The happiness fits me

So be what it be, i want to be

I'm still standing and singing

Every morning i grind my teeth

Finding Azrael in front of me

They are all there in days of marriage

While i'm walking alone in a funeral

I'm lost like an empty ship

Without anything to lay me down

Marwan 2, Come here and hold me, tell me that life will go on.

I won't accept any guests

While my home is going around

I won't accept any guests

Everything is spinning around me

Just to wear my smile

The happiness fits me

So be what it be, i want to be

I'm still standing and singing

Just to wear my lie

So be what it be, i want to be

I'm still standing and singing

1. Al mesaharaty is someone whose wondering the streets before dawn while knocking on a drum to wake Muslims up to eat before fasting in Ramadan and people give him some money as kindness of them and here is a reference to the song "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan; the song talks about inspiration whether it's coming from a sober mind or a drugged one, and that art is a way of expressing feelings and experiences and meditation and escaping from life and reality
2. Marwan; they say that he's someone who has been arrested for being a gay.

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Submitted by

marwahisham on 2015-12-08

Added in reply to request by

Elenia

Last edited by

marwahisham on 2017-04-22

Author's comments:

*The song is about reaching the peak of sadness and being exhausted from it, so he decides he wouldn't care about anything anymore, and that whatever happens happens.

Original lyrics