liban-nahia

Lyrics & music: Rahbani Brothers

They put up road-blocks / they dimmed all the signs / they planted cannons / they mined the squares / where are you love / after you we became / the love that screams / we became the distances.

For the happy days we longed / the days of staying up on the road / the long walks / the rendezvous at the old restaurant.

O love of Beirut / O love of days / They will come back Beirut / the days will come back.

It is the second summer / the moon is broken / is it true you may forget me / my defeated love / I went back to my house / my house I didn't find / only smoke and twisted beams / no rose and no fence.

From the musical: Lulu
Lyrics: Rahbani Brothers
Music: Filmon Wahbeh

From the height of sleep / you steal me / in the far-off where I run / you precede me /I am at the end of earth my love / the earth walks through me / when I walk / how far will you follow me.

We had departed and your voice / died away / empty time bid me in / and when I closed the door on myself / I found you between me / and myself.

Draped over the sea / of oblivion / sleep has deserted me now / with everything else / but your face refused / to depart / when I try to see in / it drowns me.

Dance and laughter / in festive vigilance / surrounded by my friends / all the eyes are on me / because l'm looking for a new love.

The glass keeps falling / from my hand / alone among all / I see you / you steal from among them / you burn me with the ice of the past.