Bil Rouh

A homesick Levantine love song whose hook is a promise to give one's soul and face for a voice that calls. The speaker keeps hearing the beloved calling and asks where she is. The verses widen into a picture of home: a house over there, under the rock that watched his fire in the cold, between the chest and the camp by the river that watered a thirsty soul. He asks her to gather her people in the shade and lets him sing a long song of patience that has lasted too long. He praises her light in the sky, her olive-and-flower beauty, and the way she turns his thoughts to poetry.