Yasmine Hamdan - Beirut

 

Arak drinking 

Card playing 

Racehorse cheering 

Pigeon hunting 

The essence of Beirut 

Seduction crowd

Cruising around 

Fooling about 

This all there is on the minds 

Of the citizens of Beirut 

Beirut 

A flower off its terrain

Beirut

Oh her beauty, her good old days

Beirut

That dire end, all a waste 

Withering 

All unemployed 

Hopeless

Ruined and rusted 

Jinxed and accursed 

Those dealers of Beirut 

Oh the strutting 

That fancy living 

Excess of splurging 

Exploded vanity 

Smothering Beirut 

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