levantines

How long, my friend?
O, how long has it been?
Since we've really laughed together
How long has it been?

My cousin
We are lost
And there's nowhere in the world
We can be friends

Now we are different
Now we are hungry
Now we are broken
Now we are severed

And now
Are we finished?

What's left for us, brother?
What's left of our past?
Our families are killing,
And our children are killed

Our art is a-mess
Our cities a-ruin
And nothing is left
For our hatred to maim.

And even till death
And even through pain
I cannot stop loving
Stop crying for you