The Message Board

It’s strange where inspiration comes from when writing songs. My friend and work colleague Mac is married to a Morrocan lady and he has recently emailed me some of his favourite Arabic love songs. Most of them are about the sorrow and pain of broken love affairs and they are intensely poetic and literate unlike the shallow offerings we often get from the other side of the globe. I can understand that in some countries where even being in the same room with a member of the opposite sex could be deemed to be provocative and promiscuous that these love songs capture the essence of love and betrayal.

I was listening to one track on YouTube and I was reading the comments. One in particular seemed very sad and desperate by a lady who called herself Elnor100. I know we have all been low in our lives but this person seems to have been really hurt.

I used some of her words to write my latest song.

Elnors comments:

love definetely has no limits no boundries. it stings as a bee . cuts like a knife destroys every fiber of your being and comes back to bite you even long after you try to be done with it. every dream every hope every breath you take is little reminders of yesterday. i cannot imagine any good day ahead in this life. dam love broke my soul my spirit my heart in a billion peices and some how i pick up those peices and try my best to forget. but i cannot———— oh dam this life ………..Elnor100

Your words on the message board

Left me in no doubt

Your heart is broken girl

Elnor who are you?

You say love has no boundaries

Even though, it broke you apart

Every dream, every breath you have

reminds you of the pain

Damn love, broke your soul

It will probably do it again

Your message says, love hurts

Your message cries, love is pain

Sad Arabic love song – sung by Mohhammad Hamaki and written by Ana Azeto

A more haunting piece of music is – “Man story”, performed by RUM BAND by Tarik El Nasser, RUM Band is a Jordanian band lead by Tarik El Nasser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KTIllP0vk&feature=related