Mohammed Wardi - Friendliness

Mohammed Wardi - Friendliness

I'll live it with you!
If you knew the tears of jubilation and joys!
I'd do it all over again with you!

And pine over the past that has gone and departed,
Over the parting of long duration,
Over the patience that we endured,
With the prolonged pain and nights!

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Long ago, we carried friendliness,
And gave friendliness.
And on our eyes was
the biggest warmth that was,
And it surpassed the limit!

Long ago, we did not live in expatriation,
And we did not suffer in seclusion.
Now, we go and pine
for the past
that will not return.

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It is true that time dominates all,
But we lived it,
And we lived in torment and torment.
Our hearts moan and we moan,
And for hope we open doors.

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I love you!
Time has not kept me from your love,
Nor melancholy.

And my fear for you prevents me,
And the long familiarity and intercourse,
And my longing for you
That has prolonged still with me.

END.

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Mohammed Wardi is the greatest composer and singer to have ever come out of Nubia. He was a part of the postcolonial excitement, and the joy of the October revolution of 1964, but with time, he was disillusioned as to the whole project. Democracy was defeated three times by three coups, the socialism experiment failed, and in 1989, the country went full Islamic.

The song is about refugee-ism. He was forced to flee the country after the nightmare of the June 30 coup in 1989, and did not return until 2012. And in the song, he laments the past that was gone and the pain of living in another country.

He belonged to a different era, and even as he performed in his last days for a generation that looked nothing like his, he was the same young man of colonial Sudan.

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I ask cynically, why did we ask the colonizer to leave? If we wanted peace and prosperity, we would not have given this country to two hostile Islamic sects that both wanted power and nothing else, in a system set up by the British. They vied for seats in parliaments, then they would be overthrown by a military coup, assembled and pushed for by Gamal Abdel-Nasser the anti-democrat macho man, bringing in secular socialism; or by Hassan al-Turabi and his ilk, driving the country straight to hell.