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Our country...
Where dreams have abandoned
After a dream,
We only dream when we sleep
We toss and turn...
And we long for it.
And we say:
Tomorrow the days will return
Tell me, O God:
What has become of its people
That they have forgotten virtue
And encouraged crime?
Our lips are parched with longing,
And our hearts are bleeding with pain.
No matter how much the leadership
Drowns in ignorance,
Lebanon remains for all its inhabitants,
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How much have we come to love it?
How much? A land...
They crucified it on the line of fire
A land they led to ruin
And even now it's ignorant of what happened
You'd die there if you ever asked:
Why did they kill mothers
While we held babies in our arms?
You'd die there if you asked:
Where is the army?
And how did its division happen
In a single day?
Even if I die for the sake of my country,
It doesn't matter.
The important thing
Is that my homeland remains Lebanon,
And wipe the shame
From its brow with my blood.
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