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sethnintendo said:
sad.man.loves.vgc said:

 


Songs has a nice beat (especially the beginning).  However, those lyrics are a little interesting.  He does some crazy sounds (considering I don't know what language that is, assuming some Arabic language?)!  Still better than most pop music.  Sounds like Aladdin music.


It's Arabic yes, but the Algerian accent alters the sounds heavily , it's hard, even for me, to understand what he says, I had to look up the lyrics in Arabic. Also, I just googled for an English translation and found one, but it's not accurate, The Song is about leaving his homeland and living abroad,  I will try to edit it a little bit:


Wahrane (Oran in English, a major city in Algeria)  you went to downhill
Lots of the good people left you
They lived homesick and confused after
And this homesickness is hard and traitorous

How happy it makes me just to remember the children of el Hamri (a district of Oran)
Children of the city and Sidi el Houari (a neighborhood in Oran where Khaled was from)
I spent my youth with them
and it seems that I'll always sing for them

How beautiful is staying up the nights in my country
The flutes and drums echo

Oh those who are going to Oran
Ask them to take care of it

I'll never forget my country so long as I live
My land and the land of my ancestors
I asked my family about the people
they say They've left their religion and turned to the bottle (by the bottle He means alcohol but it's not literal)

Gambling and drinking looks fun
but they do no good to Oran
Sorry for the the empty space (???)
Her beauty was a wondrous beauty (???)

now my heart will break if I go back (probably because how the city went downhill and lost its culture) and I will cry and call out as long as I am not there (pick your poison situation)

 

lol, it's harder than I thought.