Tanour Bread

One of the most beautiful songs ever written Oummi (“My Mother”), the lyrics of the song are based on a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, and for sure Marcel Khalifeh a great gifted composer and singer performs this great song, although it is believed that the song is dedicated to Palestine, there is no obvious reference to it in the verse, but I think that “my mother” refers to anyone homeland not specifically to Palestine, it could be anywhere and any country.

I yearn for my mother's bread

and my mother's coffee

and my mother's touch

and childhood grows within me

day upon breast of day,

and I love my life

because if I died
I'd be ashamed of my mother's tears...
Aaaaah of my mother's tears.

As a veil for your eye brows
and cover my bones with grass
that has been baptized in the
purity of your heel

And tie me to you

with a lock of hair

with a thread that trails

in the train of your dress.

May be I'd become a god,

a god I'd become

if I touched the depths of your heart

Mother... mother.. Mother...

Put me, if I didn't return,

as firewood in your stove,

as a clothesline on your rooftop,

for I have lost resolve

without your prayer, your daily prayer.

Aaaaaaah.... Aaaaaah...

I have grown old

so bring me back the stars of childhood,

that I may share with the young birds

the road of return

to the nest of your waiting.

Mother... Mother... Mother...

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