The Music Thread

[M_Mehdi]

- Open Your Eyes -
Lyrics & Vocals by Nesreen
Music composed, performed, and arranged by Muhammad Mehdi

Download the whole album for free at:

http://www.outrecords.com/open_your_eyes.html

Downloads from OutRecords.com are under the Creative Commons Music Sharing License: No Derivative Works, Noncommercial, Attribution


Hope you enjoy! 

[ayani]

i'm listening now to A Fine Frenzy's "Almost Lover"... a beautiful and profoundly masochistic choice, but i love it.

song and video

[UncleCasual]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e_XzCR2MbrU

[ayani]

check this out: the Avett Brothers ~ God and Me. definitely spoke to me as a Quranic Muslim.

God and Me

Well I know a preacher he's a real good man
He speaks from The Good Book in his hand
And helps all people when he can
But me and God don't need a middle man

Well I found God in a soft woman's hair
A long days work and a good sittin' chair
The ups and downs of the treble clef lines
And five miles ago on an interstate sign
My God, my God and I don't need a middle man
My God, my God and I don't need a middle man

Now I don't doubt that The Good Book is true
What's right for me may not be right for you
To church on Sunday I'll stand beside
All the hurtin' people with the fear in their eyes
And I thank the Lord for the country land
Just like pa I thank him for my hands
And I don't know if my soul is safe
Cuz sometimes I use curse words when I pray

My God, my God and I don't need a middle man
My God, my God and I don't need a middle man
My God, my God and I don't need a middle man
My God, my God and I don't need a middle man

[ayani]

Peace

Here's a pretty cool song. From the commercial. I can never find songs on commercials that I like but they had it up on Yahoo today and "Behold!" I hath found at least one of them. This is a song by Yael Naim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM

that is really cool! where's she from, Israel? nice song, bouncy and sweet.

[Elke]

she's French, at least she won a French music award for her song

[savage_carrot]

She served in Israel Defense Forces as a soloist in the Israel Air Force Orchestra.

I mean, not trying to take attention from her "frenchieness" or whatever but hey, the Israel AF has an orchestra? Do they play them morale boosting instrumentals while in the air on a special channel?

[Tay]

This track's a little older, and I always liked the guitar riff, but the lyrics finally shined through on me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72FkCoJfhgU

Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's made for more than arguments,
And failed attempts to fly.
Fly.

We were meant to live for so much more
have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

Dreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken. Broken


We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life

Yeahhh!

We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live

[zenje]

Peace Tay

I always sang the chorus as -

We were meant to live for so much more...
but we lost ourselves..

Works either way, I guess. 

[Tay]

I think I did too