عمو زنجيرباف
آثری از
محمد رضا اسرار

A friend of mine showed me this really awesome video of that I think was recently composed and released. It’s in Farsi with the singer, Mohammad Reza Asrar, playing a guitar. It’s really really hard to translate in English but I’ve done my best. It’s not a literal translation, and I’ve skipped a part or two and one section doesn’t rhyme but I got too tired with it. The lyrics and tune are *amazing* though. You decide what it’s about.

Enjoy!

Translation:

Hey, Mr. Chain Builder,
The merciless spider,
Anyone who against your injustice complains,
Don’t have them framed in your chains.

At midnight three women
start walking the street
They crawl all over,
of the dead bodies without heat.

Their black chadors,
and the fire in their lips.
Their dancing shadows,
make anyone tremble with this eclipse.

They bring news to you,
They’re good slaves for you.
They sleep on your bed,
drink blood from your lips, red.

Who says the world turns on your demand,
those covered in black to dance with your hand,
With the tired checkers in mess,
The game ends with the black dices.

You’ll be left behind from us,
You’re not one of us
Your fate, its end will meet.
Without a doubt, you’ll go down in defeat.

Mr. chain maker, the chain is done.
The prey is now on your table, you charlatan
You saw no evil from us yet we felt your evil might
Did you not say you dreamt God last night?

I say, ‘God is sleeping dead fast.’
One day, without questions asked,
I will ask the bricklayer,
to build me a god and answer my prayer;
a low thug with dark heart and eyes,
sent to your ship to capsize

Mr. Chain Builder… gone!
His secret doings become undone.
He’ll get the hell out along with his lies,
silently, quietly, without goodbyes.

He’ll disappear before our eyes,
our hearts, again, will rejoice in his demise.
And that promised day shall come,
his memory but a shadow in our freedom.

Hey Mr. Chain builder, you merciless spider
Don’t frame everyone to your chains,
who against your injustice, complains.