Society & Culture - 14 December 2006

Note:Please read whichever you like, so please don't complain about the lentgh! It's optional!
Hi.I live in Iran and I'm 18.I've translated these Iranian pop songs by myself..This singer's albums were chosen as the best pop music for the best and the most meaningful lyrics and the best melody in the Europe.It's somehow similar to the "believe" album by Cher.If you like to listen to them just e-mail me and I'll send them to you in no time.Cos I'd sent them to 11 Americans and I don't need to attach them again.They all loved them.

First:(mahboobeye shab)
when the night steps in the gardens, the flowers cannot breathe
when the darkness rains (comes down) from the sky, the blooms become sad
when the darkness doesn't allow the flowers to breathe, the "love flower" stays awake at night
she (the love flower) doesn't allow the night to have any effects on her, her smell can be felt even at the other side of the gardens
if (someone) puts the love flower in a vase, and plants thistles all around her
(even) if (someone) walls up all around her body (existence), (even) if everyone accuses all of her fibers
(even with all these difficulties) the smell of the love flower makes its way to the beyond of all the stone walls
(and) the love flower, has a shelter in the heart of the blooms
at nights when the flowers are sitting in the darkness, and they all have closed their eyes because of the horrer of the night
(and) when their body trembles becuase of the fear of the darkness, you "lover flower" are the shelter for them

Second:(yaade man baash)
you left (me) and your memories have sat down in my mind
without you I'm the prisoner of the impossible wishes (ambitions)
you didn't keep me in your memory (you didn't think of me) but, I broke in the memory of you
I didn't fall in love with anyone but you, (because) you're far from me
sing with me and think of me, think of me (keep me in your memory) without any excuses
when the moon is awake, think of me with all your love
if you be (with me), it is possible to pass the (unfortunate) events
and) it is possible to learn how to burst into flames, in the fire of your love)
if you're away (from me), if you're not (with me), (at least) be the breath of my cry
till the end of the world, forever, keep me in your memory (think of me)

Third:(Tasavvor kon)
Imagine.Even if it is hard to imagine.a world where each person is truly fortunate!Imagine a world where money, race, and power have no place!a world where riot police is not the answer to the calls for unity!a world with no nuclear bombs, no artillery, and no bombardments!a world where no child will leave his legs on land mines!Everybody free, totally free! no one in pain, no pain!You wouldn't read in newspapers that whales committed suicide!Imagine a world with no hatred, no gunpowder,no cruelty of arrogant, no fear, no coffin!Imagine a world filled with smile and freedom!full of flowers and kisses! Filled with up-growing improvements!Imagine! Even if it is a crime to imagine so!even if you'd lay down your life on this!Imagine a world where prison does not exist in reality,where all wars of the world are included in ‘The Ceasefire Treaty'!!a world where nobody is ‘The Boss' of the world!people are all equal!Then each person will have an equal share in each single seed of wheat!No border, no boundaries – motherland would mean the entire world!imagine you could be the interpretation of this dream!

Forth:(Booseye Baad)(club mix)
The kiss of the autumnal wind whispers to the lonely leaf unmercifully that you'll be the victim of the autumn
The new green leaf loses its green color, it drowns in the kisses of the wind and the horror of the new days
It (the leaf) abandons the tree and wanders around in the alley (becomes homeless), an alley that is the reminder of the gone and futile days
It (the leaf) sits down in the corner of the alley, stares up at the sky, thinks of the past, and feels pity for it (with sadness)
(It thinks of) the days that the alley was under my body's shade, and the kind lover tree, loved the smell of my breath so much
My share of the wind's kiss, what can I say oh my gosh, was all getting yellow-colored and faded, and dying and being forgotten

Fifth:(Panjareh)
When at sunset, the rain hits the (window) glass
All the sadness in the world is in my chest
In the rain drops, my choked voice breaks (intrupts)
I don't want anything but a window anymore
I sit down behind this window and sing
I wait for your arrival under the rain
Under the rain, waiting for you is very different
Sounds like I love you more when it rains
Sometimes when you come, you put your head on my shoulder
You take all the sadness away from my heart
But this is only a dream, a dream behind the window (glass)
When I'm awake, sadness sits down in my throat again (I become sad again)
Sixth:
Defrost my frozen tears, open up your heart
Hear the voice of my heart, what have I done to your heart?
I wish in the last moment, you could read the love in my eyes
Your heart didn't hear my voice, you left (me) and stayed with a stranger
If someday I tell you this story that I've got used to you
My heart's lucked up in the prison of friendship, in your heart
If one night, I get to the truth, I'll become the lover God
(And) I'll say my secret to the star of the western sea

Seventh:
Hey actor, don't cry.We're all like each other
When we get up in the morning, we cover our face with a mask
Someone becomes a teacher and someone becomes a homeless
Someone becomes a song-writer, someone becomes a song-seller
The old life's mask is on our faces till night
The tears behind the mask are soundless as usual
Whoever you are, come out of the back of your mask
Don't talk about that fate, free yourself of the night's illusion
Draw the shape of an outlet on the cage's bars
For just once (in your life), breathe in place of yourself (It means don't pretend that you're someone else)
I wish it was possible for us to be ourselves (Not to disguise who we are) and that'd be enough
Even if it's as brief as a short glance or a breath
Until when (should we allow) our mask to talk in place of us?
Until when (staying) silence will be my roll in this show (life)
I want to sing this very song on the floor show so loudly
(I want to) tear my mask and cry out loud as if I'm myself (Not my mask)

Eightth:
The figure in the photo which is in the album is wet
I kissed your memory again, I've asked myself this unanswerable question thousands of times so far:
What makes the songs lifelike?
Its pulse is the throat of yesterday (It means my throat could produce a better voice in the past, so my songs were liflike)
I know that without you, my tomorrow will be the same grey color as yesterday's (grey color)
I'm thirsty like the sun and more landless than the wind, more immediate than the song, outspoken like a loud cry
I'm lonelier than silence, brighter than the star, I love more than ever, sing with me again
I open the eyelids of the window, there are murmers of the moon light in the lane
All the windows are silent, sounds like (everyone in) this deserted lane is asleep
I call out your name aloud noiselessly, my crying closes the window
Once again, the invisible hands of night closes the eyelids of my window


sorry, if it was too long.And also sorry for the gramatical mistakes.The rest of them are as beautiful as these, but I haven't translated them yet.

2006-12-14 03:01:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2006-12-14 03:00:21 · 8 answers · asked by jesus bot 2.0 1 in Religion & Spirituality

My Language Arts teacher gave us this assignment to look up a speciel event that happened in the era of the Ancient Vikings. I chose the Julfest. Does anyone know anything?

2006-12-14 02:59:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2006-12-14 02:59:31 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-14 02:59:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

why don't people just respect each other and not say anything if they dont have anything good to say?

2006-12-14 02:58:35 · 61 answers · asked by shiro 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-14 02:58:22 · 16 answers · asked by lfriday16 1 in Religion & Spirituality

and should we bomb the (deleated due to being abusive) that use the term????????????

2006-12-14 02:57:37 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I am obsessed with race relations right now, particularly between black and white people. Many times I have nothing to say because I'm afraid I'll offend someone. And I feel racist sort of doing this because I'm not all antsy around my Asian friends, we can openly make fun of eachother and know we're just kidding, but am really uptight around black people in the fear that I'll say something wrong. So do I need to lighten up and not worry about it so much? Sorry about all the race questions, it's just something I can't help thinking about a lot these days.

2006-12-14 02:57:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

The people of the ancient middle east had a very dark skin, so doesn't that mean that Jesus would have dark skin himself?

2006-12-14 02:56:46 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The lights of Hanukkah are shining.
Their glow will brighten up the sky.
Let these lights of love,
Tell the story of,
A miracle of days gone by.

The people had a little oil.
Enough to last for just one night.
But with God's great ways,
It lasted eight long days,
And that's a miracle of light (or it might be life)...

We learned this in 5th grade music class (I won't tell you how many years ago), and I can't remember the rest...nor can I find it anywhere on the internet.

Thanks!

2006-12-14 02:56:10 · 2 answers · asked by jillygoat11 2 in Religion & Spirituality

What do you think of them? I think save the date magnets or announcements are tacky personally, and wouldn't send them at all. I think telling someone that they need to mark their calendar months or years in advance of a wedding is a little presumpuous. I mean, I have enough crap going on in my life, I will decide WHEN THE TIME COMES if I want to go to your wedding. I just think it is snotty to assume everyone needs the date ASAP as your wedding is so darn important, it needs to be on my mind and calendar RIGHT NOW.

When I got married, both time, this was not somethign I even considered. And honestly, the first time, in 1997, I don't even think there was such a thing. I just don't think I am so important, that people need to save the date for me in advance.

Am I just a crabby old 30-something? What is with this trend???

2006-12-14 02:55:36 · 6 answers · asked by nottashygirl 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Odin- the all father, the discoverer of runes and Futhark

Tiamat- the 1, 5, or 7 headed dragon goddess

Phoenix- Fire, Sun and Life

Loki and Coyote- chaos and prankster gods

Ganesha- the elephant headed, 4 armed god with a hammer of desintegration

Valkyries- The Beautifull battle maidens, and harvesters of warrior's souls

Quetzalquotal- the thunder bird

Ra- the sun god

Earth- Mother Earth, Gaia

The Great Mystery- Formless, sexless diety of the native americans

Cerberus- 3 headed dog god that guards the entrance to the underworld

Jormungandar- the giant serpent

These are just a few to name

2006-12-14 02:55:29 · 21 answers · asked by INOTFRIEND 4 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-12-14 02:55:23 · 25 answers · asked by Debbie 1 in Etiquette

Just wondering. I think the Star of David would make for a supreme shuriken.

2006-12-14 02:55:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Quote via Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich:

"But there [have] been numerous unfortunate cases of fratricide, and the parents have basically said, 'OK, it was an unfortunate accident.' And they let it go. So this is — I don't know, these people have a hard time letting it go. It may be because of their religious beliefs."

Kauzlarich, now a battalion commanding officer at Fort Riley in Kansas, further suggested the Tillman family's unhappiness with the findings of past investigations might be because of the absence of a Christian faith in their lives."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tillmanpart1

Apparently the Tillmans are not religious and this man thinks that is the reason for their dissatisfaction over the handling of their son's death. I thougt it was b/c the military lied and then attempted to cover it up, but I am a dirty, rotten atheist. Your view?

2006-12-14 02:55:05 · 3 answers · asked by mutterhalls 3 in Religion & Spirituality

According to the Bible:

"... the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant."

2006-12-14 02:54:35 · 15 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I've read some of the replies of people leaving question and I have also left questions and some of the answer are rude and disrepectfull, what is wrong with people why are they so mean, you can give a answer with out being disrepectful and a jerk, what the problem with people????

2006-12-14 02:54:25 · 15 answers · asked by CJ 2 in Etiquette

I am 25, so well past the teen-angst stage. I find it hilarious that these people are all dark and gloomy and "misunderstood" and that the only way for them to show their emotions is to adopt a particular hairstyle and label themselves that way. I mean, guess what people, in 5 years you will realize that you were just an angst ridden teenager, like the rest of us have been and you'll be super embarrassed about your fancy emo hairdo hahahahaha

2006-12-14 02:53:41 · 8 answers · asked by jamie 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-12-14 02:53:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

want to feed me to MASSIVE proportions?

I'm a gainer and want to get over 350lbs!

2006-12-14 02:53:07 · 22 answers · asked by ? 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

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2006-12-14 02:52:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

And don't say God would never ask you to do it, because the Bible justifies it.

2006-12-14 02:52:37 · 18 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I'd like to understand some people's jokes and I'm not familiar with American customs.

2006-12-14 02:52:01 · 6 answers · asked by Jayne R 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Someone claimed that jesus gave the law to Moses. The law states over and over again how it is eternal for all generation. It also says that G-d has put two paths before us life (following the law) and death (not following it). G-d then went on to judge the Jewish people for over 1300 years punishing them severely when they strayed from the law.

Now we are to believe that the law means nothing all the matters is belief. Sounds like a liar to me.

2006-12-14 02:51:30 · 12 answers · asked by Quantrill 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Come on now which one is it; Agnostic or Atheist?

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My boss is female

2006-12-14 02:49:56 · 9 answers · asked by Patti 1 in Etiquette

to you

2006-12-14 02:49:31 · 8 answers · asked by james_siple 1 in Religion & Spirituality