A dance dedicated to Mahsa Jina Amini | 29.10.2022 | Shakeh Major Tchilingirian
This dance is dedicated to Mahsa Jina Amini and the millions of children and women around the world who are yearning to see “the sunrise after a long dark night”. 29.10.2022, Shakeh Major Tchilingirian (www.shakeh.info).
This is the English translation of the song.
Baraye (“For” or “Because of”)
By Shervin Hajipoor
Because of dancing in the streets
Because we’re scared to kiss our lovers when we meet
Because of one sister and for all of them
Because of changing minds that have gone rotten
Because of all the shame of being penniless
Because of yearning to live life normally
Because of a child in poverty and his lost dreams
Because of the fight for equality
Because of this polluted air
Because of ‘Valiasr’ (name of street) and the trees dying there
Because of the Pirooz (local cheetah) and its near extinction
Because of innocent dogs, forbidden
Because of tears that never end
Because of longing to repeat those moments
Because of a smile on all faces
Because of students and what their future embraces
Because of the promised Paradise
Because of the locked-up voices that cannot rise
Because of all our children
Because of, the ‘because of ‘s’, that never end
Because of all the empty chants
Because of all the rubble from homes that collapsed
Because of peace is all that we want
Because of the sunshine after the long night’s haunt
Because of sleeplessness and anxiety
Because of the (hu)man, the country, the rebuilding
Because of the girl who wished she was a man
Because of Woman, Life, Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
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