Tun Im Hayreni - Arabo Ispiryan (Cover by Kees)

Happy 60th Birthday to you, Papa!! You've been asking me to learn this song for months.. and since every store in sight is closed and shut down, I thought what better gift to give you than a cover video of your favorite Armenian song. Hope I did it justice. Love you, Dad!

Storytime for all those who don't know:
The week before my first album release, I was stressed out to a point where I hadn't ever been in my life. My dad showed my this song two nights before my release performance aaaaaand I didn't stop crying for like 7 minutes straight. Maybe it was the stress.. maybe it was this song.. but regardless, that's what this song is for us now: the song my dad showed me that made me cry a lot, which made him get misty-eyed, and my mom recorded it all lol.


FOR ALL THOSE ASKING FOR THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

I miss my homeland
You're the strong fatherly fortress
You're the sweet motherly altar, homeland
I pray that God protects you.

Foreign lands against my will
Living sovereign with my Armenian spirit
I will return and hold you in my arms,
Fearing that I won't quench my longing

They've taken you, looted you, captured you
They've destroyed your churches, my homeland
I'll wash your Khatchkars with my tears

You've become hostage to the foreign
Your children hostages to the foreign
Icebergs have formed in your warm heart

I beg you, call for me, let me come back home