I first came across Lebanese musician Yasmine Hamdan watching Jim Jarmusch’s film, Only Lovers Left Alive, a brilliant, quirky vampire love story. One of the songs featured was Hal from Yasmine’s album Ya Nass. Both Yasmine’s voice and the song were mesmerising. A few days ago, Yasmine released a single, Hon (Here). It is a song about “A tiny land/With a gaping wound”; beautiful, poetic and heartbreaking. The video is a wonderful animation with subtitles, but here are the lyrics as well:
What happened here?
A collapse
And a mountain of love
Day after day
I am questioning my phone
There is a dead body in my bedroom
Every day they rehearse their killing
I can’t dissociate
Done
What’s left to say
A tiny land
With a gaping wound
Some people linger
And some go absent
Clouds in the living room
Darkness sitting with me
My body is shaking and the TV is on
Done
What’s left to say
A tiny land
With a gaping wound
Some people linger
And some go absent