@ALBUM: "Sahara" by Orphaned Land Typed in by Hunted Obituary (lcmeri@dapsas1.weizmann.ac.il) All translations from Hebrew made by Hunted Obituary & The Cow Orphaned Land are: Kobi Farhi - Vocals Yossi Sasi - Lead Guitars/Oud Matti Svatitzki - Rythm Guitar Uri Zelcha - Bass Sami Bachar - Drums Itzik Levi - Keyboards/Sampler/Piano Additional musicians: Hadas Sasi - Female Vocals Albert Dadon - Tarbuka Abraham Salman - Kannun "Neve Israel" synagogue - Background Vocals Amira Salah - Female "Arab" Vocals All music by : Orphaned Land 1992-1994 Recorded in "Sigma" studios - Tel Aviv - Israel, in june 1994 Produced by Orphaned Land Engineer : Tamir Muskat, Assitant engineer : Gary Gani Second assistant engineers : Eran Zira, Yotam Agam Mixed by : Tamir Muskat, Orphaned Land, Gary Gani & Asaf Bar-Lev Executive producer: Holy Recs., Orphaned Land & Asaf Bar-Lev Part I : Sahara -------------- @SONG: The Sahara's Storm (Lyrics: Parts of the "HALEL" praising words, Alon M., Kobi F. & parts taken from the "KORAN" translation) u'ma natata lo? u'ma natata lo? veketer lerosho natata lo .. (trans: and what have you given him? and what have you given him? and a crown for his head you have given him ..) I call the mighty prophet Taint my sword with blood Help in my holy "JIHAD" As I tear, kill and maim All is done in your name For me God shall do the same My faith is left to blame Even though our God is one You'll just spill blood - It shall be done This all shall die Fire from the sky Can't ask God why - This kingdom cry ? Open my eyes - See only sand It shatters all life And kills the land I drown in my self - of the heat In the desert I storm War of gods, you cannot deny Into damnation we shall fly I am becoming all and all becoming one When all has been said and all has been done Now it ends - can rise no sun Let thy will lead us on "But to those who believe not in the signs of God..." ..."God witnesseth that there is no god but He" Infidels that worship the worm Shall bring SAHARA's storm. @SONG: Blessed By Thy Hate (Lyrics: Alon M., Kobi F.) Enriched with crimson shades of pain the river runs dry Full of painful memories of happiness - We together fly And I curse your death-cold flesh of ice I see your beauty through a hallow of flies Oh God prevent my fall Oh God inside my soul, Allah! The night falls upon my wretched self And he who hath forsaken the giver of my purity And so I never cry, the night falls upon my dying eyes There's no power source left for me, and so like this I lie In this barren castle I can't find any tears My fear takes hold, I flow onto the mold Sinful souls, dark with fire Burn freeze cold with desire Heavens start to cry Crawl for me, beg for me To hear your cries Why it seems like a life that dies? Silently I watch you die And see you cry The tears of hope denied They are falling but never from my eyes @SONG: Ornaments Of Gold (Lyrics: Alon M., Kobi F. & parts from the "KORAN" translation) Deliver the love out from your body Grieving nights to you, I'm hard as stone Bodies sweat in the heat of the moon After you're gone I'll be all alone Drinking the fluid of love Eternally my beloved one sweats purple wine especially when I need a woman like you To help me to pass the night through And reaching foreign shores - then you're closing the doors The research for pleasure brought me to this Now you're gone I'm as cold as ice "If ye love God then follow me" "God will forgive to him your plea" Lord I die, God hear my cry You left me all alone To myself I now mourn The light of the dark is the morning of the dawn @SONG: Aldiar Al Mukadisa (The Holy Land Of Israel) (Lyrics: Taken from the "HALEL" praising words & THE BIBLE book "TEHILIM") khavivi ya khavivi ha'el hamelekh harakhman. yishlakh meshikho hane'eman. av harakhman shma kolenu. shlakh ben david veyigalenu nashuv letzion ir kodshenu. venishlot ba beyad rama. (trans: my beloved one oh my beloved one the merciful king God. he will send his faithful messiah. merciful father hear our call. send the son of david and he will redeem us we will return to Zion our holy city. and we will rule it mightily.) mizmor ledavid yehova roi lo ekhsar : bin'ot deshe yarbitzeni al-mey menukhot yenahaleni : nafshi yeshovev yankheni bema'agley-tzedek lema'an shmo : gam ki-elekh begey tzalmavet lo-ira ra ki-ata imadi shivtekha umishantekha hema yenakhamuni : ta'arokh lefanay shulkhan neged tzoreray dishanta bashemen roshi kosi revaya : akh tov vakhesed irdefuni kol-yemey khayay veshavti beveit-yehova leorekh yamim : (trans: poetry for David, Jehovah is my shepherd I shall not want : on grass fields he'll lay me, on calm waters he'll direct me : my soul he'll make joyful, will guide me in justice-circles for his name : even if I'll walk in death-shadow valley I shall not fear because you are with me, your staff and your support they will comfort me : you will set up for me a table against my enemies, in oil you cover my head and filled is my glass : but kindness and charity will seek me all my life and I shall sit in Jehovah's house for days on : ) Part II : The Beloved's Cry --------------------------- (All lyrics by Alon M., Kobi F.) @SONG: Seasons Unite The rain falls, the snow storms The gods unleash their wrath The summer comes, sunlight swarms Fairies of magic laugh The green of leaves forsakes now Before to be exchanged with gray Before the king of winter bow And begin your wish to say As autumn falls upon us And we wait for a sign Waiting for the cold to pass Absorb it if we can To warmth I lust The swan song of a man For all you believers This darkness I make mine The freeze sends it's shivers Up and down my spine Seasons unite, shining above my eyes The heat soon brings desire Burning my veins like fire The truth is actually a lie I watch my self burning higher Flesh to flesh we bind Yours is winter and summer is mine Could this be the end of the line Or a beginning (that shall) eternally shine @SONG: The Beloved's Cry My heart flies on her wings Now I'm crying, the moon so red Tomorrow shall be yet another hell To the sun, (the) sky's soul is fed Blows pass me (I'm) down them I do not feel Anything except the shadow is real Why did she do it ? , Why did she die ? How could she leave without saying goodbye ? She has proven my life to be just a lie When sea waves crush they hit me hard But I do not feel them And then reality is no more real to me I ask myself, should I end it now And rejoin her, at last ? I miss the cold embrace of lust There's nothing left, just dust Nothing is left from my dearest love @SONG: My Requiem From the arising of the golden sun To the gloomy shadow of the moon The wind still whispers While I'm standing here by myself I'm waiting for a sign that could lead me Away to the land of the divine But when weariness starts to affect The eclipse of the sun come to earth I hide from the sun and try to live And I know in my heart (That) this is a life that God can not give I still carry in my mind The feeling that I'm blind I still carry in my mind The fear that something is behind Tear, left bare Rule the whole earth The dark will rise I await its birth - To die I see gray in the sky And pray for rain But the sky slowly becomes blue once again The spirit of God controls my mind The divine - The unearthly Lord He left me a sign - Made me a God I lie in eternal coldness I'm trying to find The thing I couldn't find Nowhere else in my past life My spirit sours into heaven I reincarnate into a cold-black raven @SONG: Orphaned Land, The Storm Still Rages Inside... The rain keeps on falling Filling the dried land It drinks the purity of life (The) land stars to grow It must be a sign - a message from God's hand Like tears from the sky Water begins to flow Left alone, deserted so long ago The storm still rages inside Before the dawn rises I cannot see the light This land's ground grows weak Shall we find the path ? The preacher's words were right I can't see any way to (the outer world) Tears do flow, yet can't conceal This land is barren, it does not feel Our self-made slaughter By our own hands Here lies the orphaned land ... Suddenly lightning strikes the earth It marks the sign of my rebirth Seeds of love from myself evolve This can not be living - without (your) safety The storm still rages inside ... Invisible rays penetrate the ground This land to die is surely bound Suffer but doesn't scream Can it be a hopeless dream ?