كلمات : عبد الرحيم منصور
ألحان : هاني شنودة
- بنتولد 1980 -

أكلّم القمَر

الشوارع حواديت ، فرقة المصريين ، غناء إيمان يونس بمشاركة صلاح جاهين

الشوارع حواديت

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بعد الطـوفـان - محمد منير - فيلم اليوم السادس

Chapters 11-13: Still Water - Summary

Chapter 11 "Light as a Feather": Summoned to Lucien's quarters, Mira discovers he found the Nimwe feather hidden in her trinket box—her father unwittingly granted him access to their home. Lucien's supernatural ability to detect magic makes denial impossible. When Mira attempts to deny knowledge, Lucien threatens to plant the feather in Kat's home, resulting in her immediate Forsaking and certain death. The chapter culminates in his ultimatum: marry him to prove devotion to Zenith's Light, or watch Kat die for a crime she didn't commit. The "proposal" is "a command wrapped in the illusion of choice," using Mira's love for Kat as the ultimate weapon.

Chapter 12 "Still Water": At the pier, Mira finds even nature corrupted—the wind has vanished, the ocean lies unnaturally still. When Kat arrives asking about Lucien's meeting, Mira is forced to perform excitement about the proposal, unable to reveal it's coercion without endangering her friend. Kat's joy demonstrates her complete conversion and inability to recognize Mira's distress. The chapter portrays Mira's psychological fracturing as she maintains the facade while internally "splintering into a thousand irreparable shards."

Chapter 13 "In the Eyes of Zenith": The forced wedding unfolds as public spectacle while masking private battle. During vows, Mira demonstrates resistance by crafting double-meaning responses—"I give myself to you, as the dawn yields to the day" (knowing dawn doesn't choose to yield). Lucien's vows reveal explicit ownership: "from this day forward, you are mine." The ceremony concludes with a forehead kiss as symbolic claiming.

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Still Water
Track 07

Can't breathe... can't scream...
Still water in my lungs...  
Oh-ah-oh... drowning...  
While standing in the sun...

I want to tear my throat wide open  
Spill the truth like crimson wine  
Tell them what crawls beneath his smile  
How his kiss tastes like brine

But still water fills my mouth  
Every time I try to speak  
The monster's fingers in my chest  
Playing with what makes me weak  
Oh-way-oh... can't bleed it out...

My skin is screaming underneath the white  
My bones are breaking with each step I take  
But all they see is still water  
Perfect bride without a wake

Still water in my throat, I'm choking  
On the vows I cannot say  
That he's eating me alive  
While they throw flowers in my way

My forest wedding dies inside me
Moss and earth turned into stone
I'm swallowing still water
While the monster takes me home
Takes me whole... swallows whole...

They laced me up in white surrender
Pulled the corset till I split
But the real chains are invisible
The ones that make me submit

I had a lover made of lightning
Who would dance between the trees
Now I'm marrying still water
That will freeze me by degrees
Mmm-ah-oh... freeze my screams...

If I could vomit up the truth
If I could bleed it on their floor
Show them how his touch devours
How he feeds on what I was before!

But still water keeps me quiet
Still water keeps me tame
I'm dissolving in his presence
Forgetting my own name...
My own name... what's my name?

Tomorrow he'll unhinge his jaw
And swallow what remains of me
But tonight they celebrate
The still water ceremony

My father kissed my forehead
Where the monster's mark will go
He thinks he's giving me away
He'll never, never know
Oh-ah-oh... never know...

Still water in my throat, I'm drowning
In the daylight, dressed in lace
The congregation's singing hymns
While something takes my face

My forest lover's just a carcass
That I carry in my chest
Still water is dissolving
Everything I once possessed
Once confessed... now suppressed...

I cannot slit my throat to tell you
(Still water, still water)
What waits beneath the gold
(Be still now, be still)

The monster wears a holy face
(Still water, still water)
And I'm already cold
(So cold... so cold...)

Can't... breathe...
Still water...
In my lungs...

Still Water

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