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Sahar

2022

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The Longing

4:42

The songs you never sung
Are the ones you know
The longing never watered
Is the one that grows

The fog you see ahead
Is where you want to move
Before a sudden wind
Takes everything from you

The lips you haven’t met
They kiss you in your dreams
The longing never bared
Aches to be revealed

Hear me, follow this calling
I know you see me
Try to believe me
Hid away your longing will only grow
And you’ll only grow colder

You lived for love alone
At first it didn’t show
That it was love itself
You were letting go

The light that shone for once
It colours all you see
The longing never lost
Is the one you keep

Hear me, follow this calling
I know you see me, fear me
But try to believe me
Hid away your longing will only grow
And you’ll only grow older

The Flame

4:27

Ooh I didn’t know what I was about to trade
All I know is where I saw a way
You saw the worst in me

Ooh I didn’t know where we were heading to
All I know is where I saw a truth
You saw an enemy

Wait, friend of mine
Don’t run away
I grow numb with time
But I’m still awake enough
To care for both of us

Ooh I didn’t know who I was working for
Though I recall they always wanted more
They got the best of me

Wait, friend of mine
Stay for a while
I’m sure by now
You’ve realized
I’m not the same
Neither are you
We watched the flame
Between us turn blue
Is there enough to keep us trying?

You Don't Own Me

4:20

You may keep me in
In between your walls
Ban me from traveling
And tell me not to sing

And you may have your thoughts
A sketch of who I am
A notion you’ve conceived
A sight you want to see

But you don’t know me
No, you don’t know me

You claim to walk in love
Though mercy is your foe
You’ve already dug a grave
Now you hope I misbehave

You say you know the cause
Of every shattered dream
Even when there’s none to blame
You always shout my name

But I don’t owe you
I’ve never owed you

You may keep me here
You seem to know just how
To pin me to the ground
Each time you come around

Take away my home
Obscuring what I am
And plague me all night long
And lay claim to Freedom’s song

But you don’t own me
No, you don’t own me

Fascination

4:29

I lack the colours
Reflected in your eyes
When you look up to the sky
To me they don’t seem to appear

And I didn’t cry
For that flamingo stuck in salt
Didn’t care for it at all
While you, you couldn’t hold your tears

Your fascination
Has always fascinated me
You make it harder to believe
That I was ever really here

I try not to understand
Just try not to understand

For I’ve seen enough
To know where I belong
And you can’t prove me wrong, no

Those modest sayings
That mean so much to you
With me they’ve never gotten through
I’ve always needed bigger words

But none of your colours
Can be found within the lines
Of the pages I made mine
And the more we drift apart
The more they start to blur

I tried not to understand
Just tried not to understand

I’ve seen enough
To know where I belong
And there you prove me wrong
For when I recall
All the nights that we have lost
Waking in your love
I cry
I cry

Sunflower

4:23

Down by the banks a sunflower blooms
Reaching into the clouds
Ever young and ever growing
Defying the hardest winds’ blowing

Time and again I have drawn her
Ever since she was a golden-haired girl
Taken up by devotion
I still hear her sing by the ocean:

Oh baby, don’t you notice me?
Notice me, so ready to lose everything
Everything for your love

Every day I’m getting closer to you
But you never answer my song
I know love does not come easy
Oh there must be someone who hears me

Oh baby, don’t you notice me?
Notice me, so ready to lose everything, everything
Oh baby, don’t you notice me?
Notice me, so ready to lose everything
Everything for your love

For your love
For your love
Your love

Now I water the ground in which she stands
And shield her from every storm
For if I don’t we might go under
Forever bound asunder
No god above who will wonder
What about us?

The First Disciple

6:02

My old friend, these poems that you preach
They’re being wasted as you speak
Remind me once more how they came to be your calling
Do you even know you’re falling?

You know that for you I’d give an arm
I’m one of few that never meant you harm
And I heed you like I heed fire and thunder
But from time to time I wander
And lately I did wonder

If you did it all to make you feel desired
Did it all to make you feel admired
For love to replace your shame

That’s quite the group that you have gathered now
Most of them, they just want you somehow
They would pay any price to kiss your skin
Don’t tell me that is loving
You know that don’t mean nothing

You know
You must know
And yet you give it all to make you feel desired
Give it all to make you feel admired
For love to replace your shame
You give it all to make you feel desired
Give it all to make you feel admired
For love to replace your shame
For love to replace your shame
For us to praise your name

Now my friend I won’t forget
The darkness blinding me before we met
It’s all I need to remember you
As the light you were
Even though for sure
You won’t remember me
No, you won’t remember me

I’m afraid that no amount of fame
Will ever wash away the shame
Of knowing not how to love your only friend
Who will love you till the end

Cinnamon

2:50

Hold on to my dreams and I’ll come find them in your room
I reach out in thought, expect you working on a tune
But you’re tending to some flowers that have long ceased to bloom
The fresh smell of cinnamon enlightens all the gloom
Is that what you hang on to?

Hold on to my memories and write ‘em down for me
You might find a friend in your neglected history
And one day you might wanna dwell on all the distant years
The steady smell of cinnamon can’t make them disappear
Or is that what you were hoping for?

Another dreamless night
Fixing you up
Your favourite lullaby
Silence

Hold on to my words and I’ll come place them on your tongue
The reason you recall them is ‘cause you knew them all along
Though somehow when you speak them now they sound all wrong
The sun shines on the cinnamon floating from the bong
Is that what it has come to?

Another dreamless day
Passing you by
Strolling your time away
Blind eyed

Another dreamless daze
I’m right behind
Ready for when you wake
I’m too kind
Just too kind

Only Our Love

3:50

I got my sin and you got your sorrow
They’re born from the din and come out at night
And they claim a debt on the rising of morrow
And only our love can suffice
Yes only our love can suffice

I’m a recluse and you, you love people
You say there’s no excuse for hiding away
Though there’s common sense in being a heathen
Only your love makes me stray
Yes only your love makes me stray

And I’m trying to find good reason
Not to end up in denial
And then I realize you’ve been standing there a while
Wearing nothing but your love

I got my words and you got your feelings
You’re such a flirt and I’m such a fool
Guess you know the cards since you are the dealer
Well baby, will our love rule?
Is it true that our love will rule?

`Cause I’m trying to find my reason
But I end up in despair
And then I notice you doing that thing with your hair
And I got nothing on my mind but love
I got nothing on my mind but love

A Drop Of Blood

5:05

I’ve seen the trees
In heart of storm
In clearest skies
I’ve seen them breathe
I’ve seen them fall
I’ve seen them fly

The gentle breeze that stirs their crown
Flows from the storm that lays them down
Oh may we fight
And may we waltz
And may we find harmony
Like wind and tree

I’ve seen the sea
Give men a home
And drown them too
I’ve seen her lead
Men back to shore
To start anew

But it’s never long before
An old yearning rises for
The cradled nights
The siren’s call
Let me always return to thee
Like sailors to the sea

One day I fell
And broke my wrist
And lay still on the ground
Ants were carrying little twigs
Over my still hand
Some kids around were scorning me
Yet I heard no sound
Then as they started to kick my back
I sank into the sand

Deep down, sank deep down
Till I was part of everything
And in a grain of sand, saw peace in holy land
Saw you right in front of me
Shapeless, sacred dust, beaming light and trust
Covering all harm in shade
Then in a drop of blood
Saw wars be fought for good
And saw you make way for man’s truth

Just for a while
Though just enough
To lose my youth
From that day on
I’ve been corrupt

For I’ve held on to faith
And I’ve been knocking on its gate
To let me see you one more time
Begging to never speak the truth
More than I speak of you

My Dearest Friend And Enemy

4:32

Don’t you leave me out
We were only trying to find out why
Love was passing by
In an echo’s pressing sound

Doesn’t matter now
Stop the tears welling in your eyes
You’re breaking up the sky
Like a widow’s broken vow

Here goes everything
You’re my dearest friend and enemy
You belong with me
Like young love belongs to spring
Now don’t tell me that I’m wrong again

I dream of living a life
Where neither of us fears looking behind

Is your faith restored?
Now that every heaven’s out of reach
Thunder on the beach
Where you once would ask for more

Will it be the same?
When you build your family
With your next enemy
Tell me who’ll be next to blame

Or could it be the start
Of something beautiful for you
Where you can see it too
Either way we’d be apart
Either way it would break my heart

I dream of living a life
Where neither of us fears looking behind

Don’t just look away
Let me know for once what’s on your mind
Leave some truth behind
If we go our separate ways
Before I step into darker days

Amir (Deluxe)

2019

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PART ONE

Habibi

5:07

Something hides in every night
Brings desire from the deep
And with it comes a burning light
To keep us from our sleep

And as the full star tries is best
to make the white pearl shine
Glances of a new day have arrived
And though he’s not alone
He fears to never love another
And leave his heart forever with her smile

Habibi, light is burning
As I am burning
Habibi, light is burning
As I am yearning

Something died within a soul
Left the eyes to rust
And every time it is recalled
It covers all in dust

Habibi, light is burning
As I am burning
Habibi, light is burning
As I am yearning

And meanwhile a whole lot goes down
Somewhere in the darkness us together for a while
You loved it then, so did I
A feeling deep inside you wants to love it all again
Now don’t leave it there
Just give it a chance
If only I’d forget you after one last dance
But you’re everywhere, yes you are
In every melody and in every little scar

Habibi, light is burning
As I am burning
Habibi, light is burning
And I am yearning

Sun May Shine

4:08

Early spring arrived
Sober, light grey sky
Sun may shine, sun may shine
Just right now it won’t rise
In your sullen gaze
I see no care for this place

And still somehow
You may find your heart here
Right here

Soon our love will flow over the gloom
Yeah it’s getting closer to you
Over your shoulder, yeah
Soon our love will flow over the gloom

Troubled by a sound
Vile and yet devout
In your eyes, in your eyes
There lies no caress, they could not shine less

Soon our love will flow over the gloom
Yeah it’s getting closer to you
Over your shoulder, yeah
Soon our love will flow over the gloom
Yeah it’s getting closer to you
Over your shoulder, yeah
Soon our love will flow over the gloom

Tummy

3:10

I'm no longer found, bugs got all my yummy
Passed out in the yard, spiders on my tummy
I'm no longer found, sex got all my pride
I'm no longer found
Passed out in the yard of angels
Disabled, I saw someone change the labels
I've seen it, I saw someone change the meaning

Once we were lost, like we almost
Like we almost were in love
Can't you help it? Thinking of me
Think you love me
It's like you must, like you almost
Like you almost have a lust
For making something of me
Something of me

Being so profound, these shoes got all my boogie
Crawling in the yard, acid went right for me
I'm no longer found, love got all my dime
I'm no longer found, flying in the sky like Cupid
Hypocrite, I saw someone change their habits
I've seen it, a sudden change of spirit

Once we were lost, like we almost
Like we almost were in love
Can't you help it? Thinking of me
Think you love me
It's like you must, like you almost
Like you almost have a lust
For making something of me
Something of me
We were lost, like we almost
Like we almost were in love
Well it made something, something of me

Chambers

4:27

I've given my words to you
I'd do it again
You know them by heart by now,
Y’have them within

Would you still offer your embrace
If it's another place you'd find me in?
If it's ours and ours to use
How can we refuse a cease of fire
Between your heart and mine

Well I'll surrender first tonight
In your false withdrawal
You'll have me rise, you'll have me fall
I won't be worthy of this fight
In your feigned retreat
I'll follow blindly in defeat

I've given my heart to you
You know its ways

Yes in its chambers you have lived
Though lately you have come to realize that
For the bullets that you fire
I'm the main supplier, I'm the one
The trigger for your gun

Well I'll surrender first tonight
In your false withdrawal
You'll have me rise, you'll have me fall
I won't be worthy of this fight
In your feigned retreat
I'll follow blindly in defeat

My fear is dead
I lost it in you
I do hear you
I do fear you
I do need you

So It Goes

4:55

I crowned the same old passing of time
Gave the golden sceptre though it was never really mine
He made the days all pass me by
In such idyllic swiftness, he didn't even try

And so it goes, the stillness covers my ears
Tenderly, until all sound disappears
Now it shows, while wind is swinging the trees
Vigorously, well it has stopped to move me

I praised the same old spending of time
Slept on the whitest beaches in the calmest of nights
They held me chained and captive so I
Could never join the sea in its ever changing tides

If I'm to let it in
It might just stay forever
If I'm to welcome him
We might just stay together

The crown remains, it’s always been mine
I ought to wear it better, I ought to know it now

And so it goes, the stillness covers my ears
Tenderly, until all sound disappears
Now it shows, while wind is swinging the trees
Vigorously, well it has stopped to move me

Indigo Night

4:15

Imagine, the girls around town assemble
The traveler’s son they come askin’
Where he came from
‘Cause they’ve watched him
Washing his face near the pond
A curious boy, and they wonder
Where he came from

He says:
“I, I have seen the world’s most beautiful places,
still I feel as If I’m a walking machine
Watching it all through a screen,
there ain’t nothing in between
To me, this might as well not be real”

Imagine, the girls take him up on a hillI
It’s an indigo night, there’s a chill
The boy is confused but he’s still
As they gather around him
So many of them, they all sing
‘bout the pleasures of life

And he cries:
„Why can’t I sing along with some feeling, or some meaning?
It feels like I’ve always been blind
I don’t know why you girls are so kind
for there are so many in line
whose lives aren’t as lost as mine”

Now something happened there
The smell of the grass, or maybe the air
There was no more despair
Just something about that night
Maybe the girls, they lit some light, and made everything right
‘Cause he’s never been
more alive

Cigar

4:07

You look at me now with those hollow eye sockets and smile
And it seems all a lie what they've told me so far
And you show me that life isn't all about extending your time
No it's the perfect time for a bottle of wine
And why do I still care about all who might recall me
For everything dies, so does memory
And why am I still surprised about all who pray their sins away
Aren't they too a part of this grand ballet?

When time occurs, don't make it right, don't make me right, it's me to decide
This or that side
This or that side

Death suits you, dear sir, like a beautiful coat but then without all the fur
I wonder would it fit me, what do you think I’d prefer?
You know some people'd rather not exist, they put a gun to the heart or a knife to the wrist
We ought to think they aren't smart, it could be something I missed
Right then she kisses my skin, I don't know what this is or where to begin
This fills me up with bliss, don't tell me this was a dream
And she shows me that life isn't all about explaining your time
No it's the perfect time, to lay all night

When time occurs, don't make it right, don't make me right, it's me to decide
This or that side
I need your word, leave it aside, just don't make me right, it's me to decide
This or that side
This or that side
This or that side

You look at me now, with that burning cigar hanging out of your mouth
And it seems all a lie what they've told me so far

Each Time

5:11

On this precious evening, quiet and still
Pale stars shine upon a bed of dark red flowers
It suits them like it suits us
It's where I start believing in a world for me
An atmosphere still enveloped by young love
and all that it moves by

It's there you'll find me, stretched out in the fields
Hope you don't mind me, staying where I please
To seal this beauty
It ain't real till it’s sure
Let me feel the thrill of it
Each time again

By a kind deceiving I am shown only what is pure
How can it endure, how can it last some more
In this perfect circle, I've come to know the face of my defeat
It's always worth repeating
Somehow it is worth it

It's there you'll find me, stretched out in the fields
Hope you don't mind me, staying where I please
To seal this beauty
It ain't real till it’s sure
Let me feel the thrill of it
Each time again

How, how can it endure
How can I just make it last some more

To seal this beauty
It ain't real till it's sure
Let me feel the thrill of it
Each time again

Verses

3:08

Yesterday I was a word, left with no voice to speak it
Now I am a happy song, placed on the lips of a woman
In her presence I light up as the earth under the sun
By her sound my verses flow, please don't you ever stop singing

Now she has me under her skirt
Lies down with me, into our world
Where all I have heard sounds anew
And all I am worth depends on you

Come babe let love have this evening

Life was not aware of me, and I wasn't aware of life
Now its flames they warm my heart, they light the path towards her

Where she has me under her skirt
Where she tells me

Come babe let love have this evening

w.o.t.h

3:55

Hey just do us all a favor
Keep what you've got going as is
No one else could match your flavor
Nothing here that exceeds what you are

Hey it was you who found some water in this desert
And it was you who robbed the forest from its fire
You were the first to show a bird its feathers
You were the one to gift a bird its voice

Your song fades in like morning
Your song creeps into my dawn
I shake when it takes me high
But the will of this heart won't have me looking down

From no form of invitation
To, singing along with your chant
Strings of my imagination
Now gracefully strung by your hand

The world fully unfurled
Full in rebirth
Fully with her
Fully unfurled
Full in rebirth
I'm fully alert
But just close my eyes on the way down

Your song fades in like morning
Your song creeps into my dawn
I shake when it takes me high
But the will of this heart, won't have me looking down

Intervals

3:38

A bubble floating up
A perfect pink sky
Dodging bullets on the go
One could look too much at their reflections
One could see them tear a hole
One could see them tear it all

The intervals that we know, they don't make a change
They don't overshadow us in any way

Nearly drowned in thought, almost gone there
"Dodging needles takes a lot
Being up here, you could drop
Every bubble has its pop
You'll become what you are not"

And suddenly it's in your eyes

The intervals that we know, they don't make a change
They don't overshadow us in any way
Our touch crosses oceans

A bubble floating up
A perfect pink sky
Moving closer, getting near
Almost quiet, almost clear

Persephone

5:05

Yes my love I confess to you
I am only here to break your heart in two
The very flower you chose that day
Its only task was to decay
You see?

When I watched your first bathing
I only warned you with a lowered voice
“Be wary of my river’s undertow
It flows with water from the coldest source”
Did you hear?

And then I made sure
You would always return
You still know of dawn
But you always return

When you hid under my black wings
They couldn’t have protected you from anything
Once in flight they would have let go
You would’ve once again wound up below
Only broken

Indeed, it’s wrong to keep you near me
One could call me cruel and deceiving
But in your sacred air I am full of light
Your loving arms are the true delight
To which I’m lost

And you’ve noticed it
There is something right here
You have come to love
Yes you’ve come to love
What you always will fear

Yes my love I confess to you
I’ve nothing but the means to break your heart in two
My part in yours may seem important now
But with every spring it will seem so small
Just for now I am your fall
I am your fall, I am your fall

PART TWO

Crocodile

3:16

In still water crocodile lies
Until something inside will rise
A thought quietly coming up
It’s not sorry to interrupt

Songbird driving himself insane
Forgot why he even came this way
His new feathers are made of gold
Will shine on
You know he won’t get old

Ooh

Everyone’s got opinions ‘bout it
“Soon you’ll like the sound”
Tired of hearing them talk around it
But soon you’ll like the sound
Yeah soon you’ll like the sound

Maybe something to ease the pain
Maybe already in your veins
Your now golden scales blind the eye
One more songbird rises to the sky

Ooh

Everyone’s got opinions ‘bout it
Tired of hearing them talk around it
“Soon you’ll like the sound”

Ooh

Every Pore

2:52

Darling, be by the door
Let your heart in, and I’ll kiss every pore
If I could always have you around
There’s a tune here, but it has no sound

But your heart is where mine lies

Darling just calm me with your voice
Let your heart sing, how I always enjoy
When you say 'always' is not a word
You think love is a bit absurd

But your heart is where mine lies

Chambers - Demo

4:25

Tummy - Demo

3:21

Intervals - Live At Jet Studio

3:39

Every Pore - Live At Jet Studio

3:05

w.o.t.h - Live At La Cigale

4:45

Intro (La Javanaise) - Live At La Cigale

1:30

J'avoue j'en ai bavé pas vous
Mon amour
Avant d'avoir eu vent de vous
Mon amour
Ne vous déplaise
En dansant la Javanaise
Nous nous aimions
Le temps d'une
Chanson

Verses - Live At La Cigale

3:32