Dhayyi Ghatta Ash-Shams ضيي غطى الشمس

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This song was written as part of a songwriting workshop organized by “Gradus – العتبة” at the Palestine Music Space, during a moment of immense collective grief and resilience in the face of a genocide against our people in Gaza. It emerges at a time when the world witnesses this madness, mourns all the lost souls, and eagerly waits for the genocide to stop.

With imagery of land, loss, and hope for return, the song is a call to believe, resist, dream and refuse to be silenced.

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Spirit of the Soul روح الروح

Lyrics

طير يا طير بالسما وعلّي
هدّي يا طير ع جبالي وقول لي
كيف البحر ماج ع شط بلادي
وكيف المطر زار حارات جدادي

Fly, oh bird, in the sky, rise high,
Rest, oh bird, on my mountains, tell me,
How the sea waves hug my country’s shore,
And how the rain visits my ancestors’ doors

ياما شفت أولاد بفاس وطورية
بتزرع سهل وواد وبتكافح يومية
بس الجندي الجلاد عدو الإنسانية
نازل خراب بلاد، إن بدك حريّة:

I see children with a pick axe and a spade
Planting fields and striving every day,
But the soldier, the tyrant, the enemy of humankind,
Keeps destroying my land, so if freedom you seek to find:

آمن قاوم كون حالم، راجع!
Believe! Resist! Be a dreamer! You shall return!

حجري وتري قلمي مقاوم
ضيي غطى الشمس
شجري جبلي بيتي كلي باقي
بكرا اليوم وأمس

My rock, chord, and pen, in resistance all unite
My light outshines the sunray
My tree, my mountain, and my home hold tight
Tomorrow, today, and yesterday

طِرت وشفت أرواح أطفال وفدائية
بْتِعْلَق ع حفاف الغيم، مع المطر مَيِّة
بتنزل ع شط بلاد تحلم بالحرية
على حارة الأجداد راجعين البقيّة

I flew and saw the souls of children and fighters,
Clinging to the edge of the clouds, as water with rain,
They fall on the shores of my land, dreaming of freedom,
To the streets of our ancestors, the remaining ones shall return

آمن قاوم كون حالم، راجع!
Believe! Resist! Be a dreamer! You shall return!

حجري وتري قلمي مقاوم
ضيي غطى الشمس
شجري جبلي بيتي كلي باقي
بكرا اليوم وأمس

My rock, chord, and pen, in resistance all unite
My light outshines the sunray
My tree, my mountain, and my home hold tight
Tomorrow, today, and yesterday

آمن قاوم كون حالم، راجع!
Believe! Resist! Be a dreamer! You shall return!

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