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This track by Afghan rapper Ferdows Assy from Herat together with BalkanBeats Soundsystem is a powerful expression of the traumatic experiences and extreme feelings of loss felt by a generation of refugees. Trapped at borders, they lay between their past and their future.

This collaboration also tells the story of a meeting between today’s refugees with the Balkan, illustrating the complexity of human experience.

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AFGHAN RAPSODY (Dari language below)

Hey what a heavy phase
Everything is black and white, nothing is colored
Again, me and a lifeless body
Re-painted plaster wall
Wow, I criticized him for not laughing
With my eyes I locked this fire in the lighter
A dark room with the smell of cart smoke
How lucky you are with an empty pocket
Do not say we are the same color
I spent a lifetime laughing in the room
I'm dead, son of a bitch
I always hit the rock to the foot of the road
If I make people lawful
Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me,
Looks like it ain‘t for me either
From myself From everyone from the court table
From thinking about tomorrows that are on my brain

Hey, don‘t you tell me not to worry,
in this crazy world everybody has a story,
Hey, don‘t you tell me not to worry,
all I get to hear is: I am so sorry, I a m so sorry,


Am I dead or alive? I do not know exactly
A fallen earth away from the world
I lived a life full of twists and turns
When I arrived, I pulled him out from under him
I'm so high that I can not say a word
I kill so much that I die and I do not feel sorry
I could not eat the meat I have eaten so far
I lost what we have won so far
See the law, you leave your opportunities behind
He tears your eyes when you have dreams
Let Dad take the world once
Before one or two goals are scored
Longing for my legs to be straight and standing
See what I have a story with my own conscience
This ritual is like a snake's trunk
Wrap around both hands and
Your life goes on...

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همه چی سفید سیاهه چیزی رنگی نی
بازم من و یه جسم لش و بی حال
دوباره رنگ پوسته شده گچ دیوار
وای انقد کشیدم که نمی گیره خندم
با چشمام قفلم به این آتیش رو فندک
یه اتاق تاریک با بوی دود گاری
چه بخت گندی داری تو با جیب خالی
نگو که هستیم رنگ مشابه
من یه عمره رو صورتم خنده اتاقه
من مُردم پسر یه عقدم که سر
تا پای مسیرو همیشه خوردم به سنگ
اگه که مردم حلال کنینم
آره تا حالا ساختم ولی الان بریدم
از خودم از همه از میز محکمه
از فکر به فرداها که روی مغزمه

من مُردم یا زندم ؟ دقیق نمی دونم
یه زمین خورده خاکی از دنیا به دورم
بیخی زندگی شدم که پر ِ پیچ و خمه
رسیدم تهش کشیدم بیرون کل زیر و بمش
اونقد بالا ام که نمی تونم حرفی بزنم
اونقد می کشم تا بمیرم و دل نمی کنم
گوشت نشد به تنم اون که تا حالا خوردم
باختم هموناییم که تا حالا بردم
ببین قانونشه فرصتاتو پشت سر می ذاری
اون وقتی که تو رویاهات داری چشماتو می مالی
ولش کن بابا بذار یه بارم دنیا ببره
قبل اینکه یکی دو سه تا گل اون بزنه
حسرت جفت پاهام واسه صاف واستادن
ببین چیه با وجدان خودم داستان دارم
این رسمه روزگاره مثل تنه ماره
می پیچه دور دو دست و
زندگیت ادامه داره

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from HERE WE MOVE - HERE WE GROOVE, released November 26, 2020
COMPOSER: UROŠ PETKOVIĆ, ROBERT ŠOKO,
LYRICS: HOSSEIN EBLIS, SADEGH, ROBERT ŠOKO
ARRANGEMENT: UROŠ PETKOVIĆ, ROBERT ŠOKO
VOCAL: FERDOWS ASSY

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