Wal Eshq

The title means "and love." Love is a blue sea, hard to survive; love is cruel, and an earthquake in a life; he can only be saved from the sea of torment by her approval, and he cannot live a single moment without her. Love is treacherous, throws fire, and is hard on whoever misses someone; the only way out is that the beloved turns out to be hard and her heart iron. In the second half the song becomes a spoken essay in Egyptian dialect on the kinds of love: first, the innocent love of lying down beside someone and being glad, waking to hear "I am happy with you"; second, true love between family and close friends, when someone says "I love you" without knowing where that flame will go; third, the lovely love of the morning, when you write her a song, bring flowers, send a card, say "I love you" without knowing why; and finally the great love, the truest one: love of tears, of tiredness, of being lost, of death and of life, of the artist, of songs, of years, of the Nile.