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Lesan (feat. Secquoia)

by NAXÖ

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Kamal Fahmy We had shared many great moments together and contemplated a lot of music.
No matter how bitter times we went through, time worked for everything.
Thank you always for your musical imagination, inspiration and your charming music!
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LESAN is Tongue in Arabic. It is about the power of the tongue in a queer eye.

lyrics

يا لسان يا
Hey, tongue, hey - Ya lesan ya
*Translates from Arabic

I was kicked in the dirt
Yup ever since birth
Thanks to America
That’s how that shit works
Brave enough to question it
Don’t give a fuck who gets hurt
And make it come together
Tie-dye to your shirt
Imma move my mental
Keep it gentle
Use our tongue
Like a sword or kiss
So cut the bullshit
Sensitive real shit
Use our language
To communicate some queer shit
Ah, okay

يا لسان
Hey, tongue (Ya lesan)
يا لسان
Hey, tongue (Ya lesan)
بتتلحوس الألوان من رسمك
The colors get licked from your drawing
علشان تعرف تنطق اسمك يا لسان
To know your name, o' tongue
أنا أنا هنا هنا من حرف لازم توصله
Here, here I am, I am from a letter/edge to be reached
و سطور علشان تلغيها، ليه يا لسان
And lines/ridges to cancel it, why, o' tongue
*Translates from Arabic

Weaponize my voice
Fuck it, Let us rejoice
We them boys making noise
We the women, getting feminine
Feeling adrenaline, chemicals
Mixing in, listen to lesan
Lick you to hear again
Breaking your thick skin
Courage to go within
Living my love life
Don’t have to believe it
Ok, you fear, we queer
Reappear only to disappear
Fuck a racketeer
Make it very clear, POC is here
Making this song because if it wasn’t for us
Who is making a fuss
Throwing you under the bus
Take control of our psyche
You wouldn’t want to fight me
Cause I'm fighting myself
I said you wouldn’t want to bite me
Cause I’m biting myself
I said, You wouldn’t write me
Cause you reading yourself
You are nothing like me
If you're not being yourself
Take a lick of yourself

بتتلحوس الألوان من رسمك
The colors get licked from your drawing
علشان تعرف تنطق اسمك يا لسان
To know your name, o' tongue
أنا هنا من حرف لازم توصله
Here I am from a letter/edge to be reached
و سطور علشان تلغيها، ليه يا لسان
And lines/ridges to cancel it, why, o' tongue
مش تايب عنك
I am not repented of you
طيف و مكتوب لازم توصله
Spectrum/horizon and written to be delivered
ليه يا لسان
Why, o' tongue
*Translates from Arabic

Take control of our psyche
I said you wouldn’t want to bite me
Cause I’m b-b-biting myself
At the end of the day
I mean what can we say
You better get out our way, bitch

حلم قديمك
Your old dream
نور شبابيكك
Light your windows
بتتلحوس الألوان من رسمك
The colors get licked from your drawing
علشان تعرف تنطق اسمك يا لسان
To know your name, o' tongue
أنا أنا هنا هنا من حرف لازم توصله
Here, here I am, I am from a letter/edge to be reached
و سطور علشان تلغيها، ليه يا لسان
And lines/ridges to cancel it, why, o' tongue
*Translates from Arabic

If it wasn’t brave heart
I wouldn’t have this
Prince of the sun
And an earthy tall bitch
Got a new story
And you will never guess this
Both can lick you up
And spit your worse shit
No one really knows
About the tongue
How it goes
Strike a pose
With your nose
If you want to be chosen
You got to know what you chose
At the end of the day
I mean what can we say
You better get out our way, bitch

يا لسان
Hey, tongue - Ya lesan
*Translates from Arabic

Imma move my mental
Keep it gentle
Use our tongue
Like a sword or kiss
So cut the bullshit, cut the bullshit

Ululation/Zaghrouta

credits

released August 4, 2020
Production/Composition by: Lylantz and NAXÖ
Songwriting by: NAXÖ and Secquoia

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NAXÖ Chicago, Illinois

NAXÖ is fusion of Middle-Eastern folklore and groovy electronic psychedelic music with songs that consider queer culture/migration, postcolonialism and re-imagining a better world with grand Arabic vocals, ecstatic synths, and the kind of percussion that finds its way to your core. Based in Chicago & their works have been featured in Chicago Reader, Windy City Times, Philly Weekly, and others. ... more

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