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So May We Find Peace
03:45
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Like a swallow as she’s flying by the season
So may we find peace.
Like a butterfly that leaves a darkened room
So may we find peace.
Like the moon that pulls the waves across the ocean
So may we find peace.
Like the ship that makes its way towards a safe shore
So may we find peace
Like somebody who is calling at your door
So may we find peace
Like the pilgrim who has walked this way before us
So may we find peace.
Oh tahta al-sama nahnu na’eesh (Under the sky, we live)
Like a swallow as she’s flying by the season
So may we find peace.
Like a butterfly that leaves a darkened room
So may we find peace.
Like the moon that pulls the waves across the ocean
So may we find peace.
Oh tahta al-sama nahnu na’eesh (Under the sky, we live)
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A thousand years ago on an island in Northumbria
Dragon ships arrived in the darkness of the night
Monks they did flee and took all their treasure
And carried carefully, the sleeping refugee.
With his body growing heavy, they took it as a sign
To rest him on a hill, that soon became a shrine
Hundred years later and it would be known
You could knock and you could find a safe place
from the snow.
In these ancient streets, there’s a heartbeat of sanctuary
All are pilgrims of a kind. In these stones you’re not alone,
there’s a place to be
In the city of a thousand years,
In the city of a thousand more
In the city of sanctuary.
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Arabic:
هدي يابحر تراث
هدي يا بحر هدي طولنا في غيبتنا
ودي سلامي ودي للارض اللي ربتنا
وسلملي على الزيتونه
على اهلي اللي ربوني
وبعدا امي الحنوني بتشمشم بمخدتنا
سلم على بلادي تربة بَي وجدادي
وبعدوا العصفور الشادي بغرد لعودتنا
وخدي سلامي يا نجوم
عالبيادر والكروم
وبعدا الفراشه بتحوم عم تستنظر عودتنا
واحمل لبلادي سلام
لخوالي ولكل العمام
وبعدوا زغلول الحمام عشوا على توتتنا
هدي يابحر هدي طولنا طولنا في غيبتنا
ودي سلامي ودي للارض اللي ربتنا
English translation:
Calm my sea, calm! We have been away for quite some time
Send my regards to the land that raised us
Greet the olive
Greet my family who raised us
Does my kind mother still smell our pillows?
Greet my country, the land of my father and ancestors
Does the bird still sing for our return?
Oh stars, take my greetings.
Are the butterflies still flying around waiting for our return?
Give my greetings to my country
And all my uncles
Is the nest still in the branch of the tree?
Calm my sea, calm! We have been away for quite some time
Send my regards to the land that raised us .
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Shadow and I
04:00
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Shadow, where are we going tonight?
As you grow and out run those searching lights
Somewhere alone in the Serbian snow
All I know, yellow line in the road
Oh shadow, only you and I around.
Shadow, I’ve been talking to you my friend
I follow, but don’t know where the journey ends
You kiss the face of sleeping souls
That lie beside, this long windy road
Oh Shadow, it’s only you and I around.
Shadow, are you going to let me down?
Shadow, only you and I around
You’re going out as the sun goes down
And darkness falls, on this refuge of mine
Oh shadow, it’s only you and I around.
Shadow, when you’re gone in the night
Shadow, there’ll be a glimmer of light
Soon the road will be yours once more
And soon the sun will show you the way
And the borderline will no longer define us,
And the shadow returns
With the sun now at its height
The shadow becomes
This story of mine.
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Let Us Be Together
04:39
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Let us be together, let us dream as one
We become more beautiful, when we find our song
We live under the same sky
We breathe in, the same air
We bleed, from the same skin
Our difference, not between us, but within
Let us be together, let us dream as one
We become more beautiful, when we find our song
The words that we speak, like a river running dry
But our hearts do bleed and they cry
But there’s a language of love, so deep
And the roots run deeper, than we ever could speak
Let us be together, let us dream as one
We become more beautiful, when we find our song
Renew the day with love, sweet love
Let us be together, let us be as one
Life’s too short for anger or hate
And tomorrow will be too late
You only have today in your hands
So plant the seeds of love in every land
Let us be together, let us dream as one
We become more beautiful, when we find our song
Renew the day with love, sweet love
Let us be together, let us be as one
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Like a Butterfly
04:01
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Sometimes it can be hard to say goodbye
I’ve been living in a cage, for a little while
Lost my home, lost my friends, lost my freedom
I’ve been uprooted but the door is open wide.
Oh I haven’t any wings, but I can try
Try to fly, dance like a butterfly
Oh I haven’t any wings, but I can try
Try to fly, dance like a butterfly.
These new streets I walk and breathe have set me free
The city I came to offered sanctuary
But the longing is painful and oh I miss my home
But I know, I do not walk alone.
Oh I haven’t any wings, but I can try
Try to fly, dance like a butterfly
Oh I haven’t any wings, but I can try
Try to fly, dance like a butterfly.
I may have lost it all, but I’ve not lost my soul.
Oh I haven’t any wings, but I can try
Try to fly, dance like a butterfly
Oh I haven’t any wings, but I can try
Try to fly, dance like a butterfly.
Music and lyrics by The Sanctuary Seekers
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( الشام يامهجة قلبي )
الشام يا مهجة قلبي دمتي للهوا ذخرا
قومي حبيبتي واقتلي اليأس والقهرا
لا تركعي واقتلعي الأشواك بيديك
لا تتراجعي وازرعي ورود الأمل في كل
شوراعك وبيوتك
نحن لن ننساك لا تنسينا يامقلة عيني
مهما طالت غربتنا وكبرت مآسينا انتي في قلوبنا تسكنينا
اه يا وطني المقتول والمسلوب والمسروق اه يا وطني
English translation:
Oh Sham, my heartbeat, you will always be the highest.
Get up my love, and kill the despair and oppression.
Don't bend and extract the thorns by your hand.
Don't go back but plant flowers of hope in all your streets and houses.
We won’t forget you, don't forget us oh the apple of my eyes!
No matter how deep is our foreignness, and no matter how big are our tragedies, you will be in our hearts.
Oh my stolen and killed home. Oh my home.
Song written and sung by Hasna Al Hassoun
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Swallow and Saint
One day a swallow flew
Into the room where you
And I had been dancing round and round.
Thousands of miles we've come,
Under the same old sun
Flying like swallows do
To find a way through.
Caught in the window pane,
Someone had felt her pain,
Everyone rushed to set her free.
Someone had climbed a chair
Someone could barely stare
Someone had reached their hands
To hold and care
And as she flapped around
Her delicate wings unbound
Everyone held their breathe to see
And our hands reach out,
Holding back wire frame
Figuring out, how we can let you go
In the evening light, over northern skies
Where our friendship lies
And the saints will rise, and they whisper
"I am in the miracle of the blue and gold
As her wings unfold, to the open sky”
Oh when a swallow flew
Into the room where you
And I had been dancing
Round and round
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In these ancient streets, there’s a heartbeat of sanctuary
All are pilgrims of a kind
In these stones you’re not alone, there’s a place to be
In the city of sanctuary.
Walking through these streets, the market place, the library
The bridges and the railways and the university
The scholars and the buskers, the pilgrims on the road
The city’s arms are wide, where all can find a home.
In these ancient streets, there’s a heartbeat of sanctuary
All are pilgrims of a kind
In these stones you’re not alone, there’s a place to be
In the city of sanctuary.
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Sam Slatcher Durham, UK
Sam Slatcher is a folk singer-songwriter living in Durham, North East England. His honest and reflective songwriting,
delivered with a calming and delicate voice captures the warmth of humanity and a longing for peace and justice.
To date, Sam has released his first EP 'In Unlikely Places (April 2018), the collaborative album 'Stories of Sanctuary' (Nov 2018) and 'Chaos & Solitude' (May 2020)
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