Mashrou' Leila - Tayf (Ghost) | مشروع ليلى - طيف

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After a 2 year writing process and a month of recording at one of the most beautiful studios we’ve ever set foot in, we launched our last album IBN EL LEIL and spent the last year touring the world with it, playing for audiences too beautiful to describe.

We repeatedly redesigned our stage set-up, worked with an incredible team of artists to design our stage visuals, and set off on the journey of a lifetime.

Here’s a video for Tayf, a little glimpse of the magic you’ve shown us over the last year, which we’re trying to recount in 4 minutes and 28 seconds.

Music by: Mashrou Leila
Lyrics by: Hamed Sinno
Produced by: Samy Osta and Mashrou Leila
Recorded at: La Frette Studios, France by Samy Osta and Mashrou Leila
Mixed by Frederic Vectol at Question de Son, Paris
Mastered by Mickael Rangeard at Question de Son, Paris
Video edited by: Roy Jamhouri
Strings performed by: the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra,
F.A.M.E. 'S. Project, Skopje
Conducted by: Oleg Kondratenko
Orchestrated by: Dzijan Emin

طيف (Ghost)
غنيت
مع كورس أشباح تحت رصاص مدينتي
والدّبكات
رقصتها تحِت ضوء إشارة السير
لانتَشيت
عالكهربا من نخاع العامود
وصبّيت
دموع النيون ع سواد العيون
والطرابيش خذونا، عالحبوس عشان يخصونا، ويعملوا أوسام
خيّطنا لهم أعلامنا من أكفان جثث الأصحاب، اللّي كانوا عالإعدام
خبز الغراب بدأ ينمى منورث الأرض غدًا يامّا
خبز الغراب بدأ ينمى منورث الأرض غدًا يامّا
وقضّيت
عمري مع حقّي مرْهون لأّحاسيسك (آه يا نوسك)
وانمحيت
من كِتب التاريخ كأنها تاريخك (وهويتك)
بأوراكنا ترجمنالهم أبيات سافو وأبو نوّاس بلْسان الآهات
على شراشف طرّزناها بالآهات الّي نشدناها بالمظاهرات
خبز الغراب بدأ ينمى منورث الأرض غدًا يامّا
خبز الغراب بدأ ينمى منورث الأرض غدًا يامّا
علّيلِي كعبك بالغنا
بعدها الأغاني ممكنة

TAYF (GHOST)

Showered with this city’s bullets, I chorused with ghosts
Bathed by traffic lights, I danced our dabkeh
Till i was high on the the marrow of the electric pole,
And i poured tears - neon - on swollen pupils.
Till the fezzes came to take us, to prisons, to castrate us, to make medallions.
But we sewed flags from funeral shrouds (from friends on death row).

The mushrooms have started to grow
Tomorrow we inherit the earth
The mushrooms have started to grow
Tomorrow we inherit the earth

My life spent; with rights mortgaged off to your sentiments
My history erased from our books like they were yours to claim
Our hips translated Sappho and Abu Nuwas in the tongue of oohs and aahs
On bed sheets embroidered with the same oohs and aahs we chanted at the picket line.

The mushrooms have started to grow
Tomorrow we inherit the earth
The mushrooms have started to grow
Tomorrow we inherit the earth

For now we still have songs;
Sing with your highest heels on.
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