How Much for a Breath of Freedom?
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The lesson is beginning. Open your notebooks.
And from the right, let us write the date together
Tuesday the 25th of January, 2011
And in the middle of the line write the title
Big enough to contain the universe: Revolution
The lesson is beginning. Open your notebooks.
Youth, fresh and vital as green branches
Shout with all their might
And break the silence and it trembles
And under their feet, the dust of their homeland speaks
"Where were you all these years?"
The answer echoes in the streets of Embaba,
Zanazine,
The University clock Tower
and the alleys of Sayeda, Dar El Salam and El Alaa
Indeed every inch of our sacred land
And tears had run down the cheeks of every mother
Now here we are!
Open your arms to us
And let us teach the world
The meaning of man
The meaning of Revolution
The lesson is beginning. Open your notebooks.
A drop of blood
How much for a breath of freedom?
The price of freedom is that groom
Dance, oh mother, and light the lanterns
The lesson is beginning. Open your notebooks.
As many as there are sighs that flow from a newborn baby
We won't leave.
He should leave, but we will not leave.
And say whatever you want to say
No one is going to believe you
Because they understand, it is you that does not understand,
Oh how we've missed lifting our heads high
And feeling once more what it is to be human
People who care for one another
And seeing in each other's eyes warmth, and our lost spirit returning
And seeing people point at us, saying
"Those, those are Egyptians"
I see the sun rise from Midan Tahrir
I beg you, to clear the way for it
What is the difference between the 25th of January
And any other day
The difference is exactly
that of a person who was dead
And wakes suddenly and sees himself as someone else
From the first cry out of a dark girl's lips
Her hair flying with joy
And in her eyes, a strange tear
Such is the difference between life and death
Is the difference clear?
The lesson is beginning. Open your notebooks.
[Written by Mohamed ZANATY and Directed by Raphaƫlle AYACH]