Minnie Ripperton Lyrics: Lovin’ you is easy, ’cause you’re beautiful Makin’ love with you is all I wanna do Lovin’ you is more than just a dream come true And everything that I do is out of lovin’ you La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la, la-la, la-la-la Dodin-dodin-do-do, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah No one else can make me feel the colors…
Lament for Nigeria In response to the Lekki massacre, inspired by the words of Ṣeun Kuti and Aisha Yesufu dear god I come from two countries one is thirsty the other is on fire both need water -warsan shire A new moon rose up in the ember months over Nigeria A new spring burst forth…
Skip James’ haunting depression-era blues song seems to only get more relevant with each passing day… Lyrics: Hard times is here and everywhere you go Times are harder than ever been before You know that people, they are are driftin’ from door to door But you can’t find no heaven, I don’t care where they…
Two of my favorite Nusrat classics, Tumhein Dillagi Bhool and Mast Naszron Say illuminate each other nicely: Tumhein dillagi bhool Translation (modified from Sur Street) and transliteration: Chorus: Tumhein dillagi bhool jani pare gi Tumhein dillagi bhool jani pare gi Muhabbat ki raahon mein aa kar to dekho You will have to forget about playing…
One of my favorite English poems of all time is reminiscent of Sufi poetry about Layla, whose name means “night,” and who symbolizes the beloved Divine Essence/Essence of the Self. Lord Byron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zCOJOgd4U She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet…
Niẓami Translation: And who am I — so far from you, yet near? A singing beggar! Layla, do you hear? Freed from life’s drudgery, my loneliness , Sorrow and grief for me spell happiness. And thirsty in the painstream of delight, I drown. Child of the sun, I starve at night. Though parted our two…
Shushtari I drink wine from the cup and from myself I approach myself In myself it is myself I love For it is my spirit, my reality the fine wine that fills me and quenches my thirst I care not what others may say I seek in myself what I already have Drink up in…
Shushtari My neglect of you is reprehensible, while your love is a duty my longing is everlasting, while union is elusive On the tablet of my heart, your love has been marked my tears are the ink, and beauty is the writer The reader of my thoughts constantly recites lessons on the signs of the…
Shushtari Natural, Natural, ay, by God, Natural Natural, Natural, ay By God, Natural A poor man like me, with a begging bag around my neck My heart is free of any care And I like people who are light-hearted Such is the natural, he is liked by every natural Natural, Natural, ay, by God, Natural…
Translation: O you present in my heart, thinking of you makes me sweet If no one ever visits my eye, then my heart will take its place for me I am not gone, but my body is vanishing from wasting away So no blamer found me, and no chaperone/rival saw me Had the era known about me, people would…
