Qumi Yalla

An Egyptian street-style song with a story that is hard to pin down. A woman is told to get up, come on, and put on her shawl, because of what the beloved has done: the foolish boy has left her. She tells him he is everything and she is nothing, and that she has lived her life in a circle, and he wants her to turn like a waterwheel in a full sea. She asks him to let her go so that he can sail with someone else, and says what they need is a ship.