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Bread and Water — Mohsen Moussawi

Bread and Water

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Bread and Water

Mohsen Moussawi

From Bread and Water

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Tempo
177 BPM

Also reads as 88 or 353 BPM — tempo doubling is normal and both are correct.

Lyrics

This night, out of the people's grief, grew as tall as a history

Every breath inside every chest became a sigh with no cry in it

The bread on the cloth turned to tears, a child's smile turned to smoke

The house, from fear repeated, quietly went to the wind

A mother, out of shame, has sewn her tears into her veil

so her child will never learn that the night's share has run out

Before his children's eyes he died — and still he smiled

O homeland, O wound that stays, O breath burning with fever

Your pain stayed in the chest, and your weeping became a cry

O homeland, O the people's held-back sob, O voice with nowhere to shelter

Your name in our souls was born twin to the heart's suffering

O God… these people with no one behind them, no shelter, no voice

How long must they burn? Their whole life became one cry!

If only a true morning would break out of the heart of the night

and bring word that the old sorrow, at last, has gone free…

O homeland, O wound that stays, O breath burning with fever

Your pain stayed in the chest, and your weeping became a cry

O homeland, O the people's held-back sob, O voice with nowhere to shelter

Your name in our souls was born twin to the heart's suffering…

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