Mashrou' Leila - Bint el Khandaq (Live at Uberhaus) | -

BINT ELKHANDAQ Here you have all you’ve ever known, habits, life, and all. But you were born a twin to estrangement, an that feeling too has grown. Now your skin won’t contain you, or the dreams that do haunt you And you fear sleeping for years and to still wake up as father’s daughter. “Betray it? sure, it’s betrayed you your whole life Be done with it? sure. It’s been done with you your whole life” Why keep sowing promise in salted earth? Ride that bike and drive us; we’ll never look back. Tomorrow we’ll look back. Your mother said it was normal, that tomorrow it would all feel standard, So you speak to the world around you but you still feel perpetually alone And truth be told, you gave it your all You’ve always stayed here fighting from the trenches “Betray it? sure, it’s betrayed you your whole life Be done with it? sure. It’s been done with you your whole life” Why keep sowing promise in salted earth? Ride that bike and drive us;