Fading Call / Minority

I am running in my dream
Really too scared to sleep
I need to wake up I know
I can’t be late
I am this open window

	Nine years behind the walls
	And one hour for me
I cross the many gates
And feel guilty again

I am running in my dream
You need your clean clothes
And the hidden chocolate
Hope they won’t find it
Hope they won’t find it

	Nine years behind the walls
	And one hour for me
I cross the many gates
And feel guilty again

20 minutes to breath
News, family and friends
The one that miss you, the one that hates you
The one that forgot you,
And you won’t forget

	Nine years behind the walls
	And one hour for me
I cross the many gates
And feel guilty again

You talk to me and I feel better 
When I see you kept the light
You ask me about outside
The girls and the sea,
The café and the bars

Do you remember the smell of the bakery as the sun rises
On the sea
Her long hair and funny smile,
Her soft skin and sparking eyes.

Jail

KING KONG

© Copyright Lyrics & Music JoFa 2009

Used to climb the highest mountains
I am climbing the tallest buildings
I am the enemy of mankind
They stole my kingdom
They made me a slave
Killing Mother Nature
Grinding, digging, 
With no caring, no sharing

Let me be your King
Let me be your Kong
I am out of the jungle
Never been to a city
I don’t know about pity
But I will fight for you
But I will die for you

Savage they call me
Beast they treat me
But my heart in one
One sun born for you Star
You are the one for me
You are the one from far
I will take all the risk
Just for you, tiny lady

 
Let me be your King
Let me be your Kong
I am out of the jungle
Never been to a city
I don’t know about pity
But I will fight for you
But I will die for you


We the black hairy ones
We the proud Bonobo’s
We fight till the end
My human queen
I will stand alone against the world
Will give you my last blink
Will give you my last breath

If I came here to Soho
It’s for you my princess so…
So let me keep you in my hand
Feel your skin so thin, thin
Until the end, the end
It will take a thousand bullets
To stop my heart for you to beat
Let them think I am the monster
You know who made the disaster.

King Kong

Minority 

© Copyright JoFa & Al 2021

I am the minority
I belong to humanity

I am the emergency
Loosing blood with dignity

You are the minority
Surviving to mediocrity
Telling truth to hypocrisy

Small people with big idea
Are we, are we
Are we an anomaly?

You thrive, you thrive,
You thrive for conformity
Dreaming of web and TV
Looking at me like an old three

Fading ethnies, fading species
A fading call for eternity

We are the unknown color
Sounding like a secret language

You want to turn the pages of the book
To forget the story we wrote

You all look alike an scared
So scared of diversity

You throw me out of the house
But I may have the key
But I may have the key
Harmony, harmony…

Minority

IN THE DUST

Not even an echo of myself
Not even a shadow
Try to leave a trace
A print in the sand, a light in the sky
In the dust, invisible, invisible
In the concrete jungle
Try to be a tree and leave my fruits
Just to bring my grace and fade away
That’s my story, … no glory

In the dust

THINGS IN MY HEAD

	These things in my head
	Things in my heart
	Make me sad
	Make me mad

	These things in my head
	Things in my heart
	Won’t leave me alone
	Don’t leave me alone

		Pas de joie, pas d’émoi
		Pas de peur, pas de haine
		Pas de scène, pas de ‘blem

		Pas de Dieu, pas de foi
		Pas de roi, pas de reine
		Pas de lien, pas de rennes

	I’ll be dead
	Oh...... but I’ll be free
	I’ll be free 
	once I’ll be dead
	
	Now things in my head in my heart
	Left me alone
	Everything is quite, so quite and empty 
	I must be dead

(c) Copyright Jofa 2013

Things in my head

I wanna live…..live in my world
I wanna live…..live in my world
Hear…………..the poet in every word
See……………a flower in every soul

	I know you want me to play
	I know you want me to pay
	I know you want me to fight
	I know you want me to make money
	That I don’t need anyway

		But maybe one day
		But maybe one day
		
You’ll live my way
You’ll live my way
Sharing and caring
Loving and helping

	I know you want me to lie
	You say it’s the only way
	You want me to hate
	You want me to cry
	To kill the love inside

		But maybe one day
		But maybe one day
		
You’ll live my way
You’ll live my way

In My World

WHITE SNOW
© Copyright Lyrics & music JoFa 2015

Can’t wake up today
My eyes are so closed
Such a heavy load on my chest
Such a heavy load on my legs

Oh I can see flowers
Falling from the sky
Oh I can hear the songs
And all the music of the world
Oh I can see the mountains
And the sparkling white snow
And the far deep oceans
		Nothing can wake me up today….
			Except the feel of your lips on my lips..
Can’t wake up today
It could be my last day
Such a heavy load on my head
Such a heavy load on my heart

Oh I can hear a child crying
I see a woman starving
And all the poor’s are calling
And the waterfall is screaming
And the wind is howling
And the sun is burning
And the trees are drying
		Nothing can wake me up today….
			Except the feel of your lips on my lips..
© Copyright Lyrics & music JoFa 2015

White snow

PLAY AROUND

It’s 6 in the morning
I hear the radio crying
I won't ever get up
I am still laying - sleeping
Stay here while it’s cold
And frightning outside - frightning outside
These people around are too serious
To save the planet 

	The world is round but we can’t play around - can’t play around
	Try to find another planet - another one
	Try to get out of the net
	Can’t get out of the bed 
	Can’t get out of the bed

Can’t smile today
These people around are too serious
To let me enjoy living - playing
I try to stay outside but anyway
I am in - the way (I got to pay)
These people around are too serious
To let anything grow
Except starvation and polution

The world is round but we can’t play around - can’t play around
	Try to find another planet - another one
	Try to get out of the net
	Can’t get out of the bed 
		Can’t get out of the bed
Copyright 2015 JoFa - Didier Farrugia

Play around

STRIPES ON THE CEILING

Stripes on the ceiling
Like my mind love and hate
Black and white - Black and white 
In this grey world

I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
Shrinked suits - shrinked people
I can hear the music of heaven
Through the jail bars
I see the skies - the skies
			By the end of my days

		I will find a way – to your arms
And there –
I will lay on your silver hair
				
I will find a way – to your arms
And there –
I will lay on your silver hair
		By the end of my days

I dream solving myself
And riding on the clouds
The eternal snow is calling me
I dream licking your honey body
Princess of the Milky Way
I know that – I know
		By the end of my days

I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT

Stripes on the ceiling
Like my mind love and hate
Black and white - Black and white 
In this grey world
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT - I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT

Shrinked suits - shrinked people
I can hear the music of heaven
Through the jail bars
I see the skies - the skies

I dream solving myself
And riding on the clouds
The eternal snow is calling me
I dream licking your honey body
Princess of the Milky Way
Princess of the Milky Way
Princess of the Milky Way
Princess of the Milky Way
I will find a way – to your arms and there
I will find a way – to your arms and there
I will find a way – to your arms and there
I will find a way – to your arms and there

Stripes On The Ceiling-Al remix

Falling
© copyright Fading Call 2021
© copyright Lyrics JoFa 2008

I am falling to a place nobody ever went 
I am falling and I feel no colour ever came here 
I am crying and a million times I tried to call you 
But in this place nothing ever sounded 
Right or wrong - silence 

I am falling
I can’t feel no joy and no pain
They are no words at all and I hope my feelings
will reach you my love
I am crying but my eyes are dry
I am falling and the time to be here
I am already there
The time to be me
I am already nobody
I am falling

No hell no paradise
It could be in between
Dead or alive I am wanted here
And I guess I will never stop falling
I am falling
Is there any destination
Whilesome are searching for a nation
I am dreaming about a passion
Someone to depend on
I am falling
My freedom is such a hole
My freedom is such an empty space

© copyright Fading Call 2021

Falling

GIVE ME LOVE

Music by Nadsat & JoFa  & special guest on Organ Hichem Amari
Words by JoFa

I gave her all the heat I had
I gave her all the light I had
I gave her  everything I had
I gave her all the love I had

And now I starve
And now I crawl
And now I stand 
I stand alone in the dark
I stand alone in the dark

Just give me love
Just give me love
Please give me love
Love, love

You’re the Queen of vampire
Drunk all my desire
Let me dead and dry
I am dead again
I am dead again
What does it take to believe again
How many words, how many smiles
Sunrises and Moonsmiles

All the love I had
All the love
All the love

© Fading Call 2017

Give Me Love JoFa Extd vs

HALF OF A CENTURY

Music by Nadsat & JoFa
Words by JoFa
Artwork Ghost by Karim Ghelloussi

About to ask
About to ask
Just look
Just a new day a new way
After half of a century
Just out of Beverly
Just a new day a new way
And no one will stop us
And no one will stop us
On the road to freedom
On the road to freedom
No way, no way, no way
Just a new day
On our way to freedom
On our way to freedom
No one, no one

So many times I got down o my knees
So many times I got lost in dark cities
So many times I got down o my knees
So many times I got lost in dark cities

But then then then I remember
No one can stooooop us on the
On the roaaaaaaaaad to freedom
Roaaaaaaaahhhhd  - to freedom
No one can stooooop us on the
On the roaaaaaaaaad to freedom
Let me tell you

Nobody will stop us on the road, on the road, 
On the road to freedom
No no no no - nobody will stop us

So many ways – so many days
No one can stop us on the
On the road to freedom
No one can stop us on the
On the road to freedom
On the road to freedom

Look at the sunshine
Look
Get up – Stand up
Get up – Stand up
Again
No no no no – no one will stop us
On the road to freedom

© Fading Call 2017

Half Of A Century

She Do

Music by Nadsat & JoFa 
Words by JoFa

I see sheeps in the clouds
I see the sun down under
And the sea above me
And I see you 
Smiling in the sun

Am I awake ?
Am I alive ?
Why is it so dark ?
Am I awake ?
Am I still alive ?

I am me
I am me
I am…
Let me be

I can’t feel my body
I can’t feel no gravity
I can’t feel any body

Fucking latency
I can’t feel my body
I can’t feel no gravity
I can’t feel any body

Oh, oh, latency 
Please

Copyright © JoFa 2017

She Do

MY TRAIN

Copyright Music & Lyrics Fading Call JoFa 2014

Used to feel pain leaving the lovers station
Tears in my eyes
And now bringing them to their lovers passion
Sparks in their eyes

Last time I left you in the rain station
Sparks in your eyes 
Brought my heart to rainbow nation
Sparks in my eyes

	Don’t miss my train
	That trip won’t be vain
	Cause today The One took his ticket
	Sitting, listening Wilson Picket
	Crossing the many rivers

My train used to go straight in deep valley
Is now running in sunny alley
Used to rust on the waves of sadness
Is now heading to happiness

So fast and sad no one would step in
Peter asking “Stop the train I’m leaving”
Is now smoking, happily resting,
Quietly crossing the Death Valley

Copyright Fading Call JoFa 2014

My Train

SPY ME

Music Nadsat - JoFa
Lyrics JoFa

Read the hidden pages of my life
Seek the evidences in the mist of my past
Follow the footprints in my dusty memories
Ask the witness and the gods

	Spy me as much as you love me
	And the day you’ll find me
Tell me who you see
	Tell me who you see

Don’t think you know the truth
Go on and follow the track
Look for the secret part of me
In my smiles or in my tears

	Spy me as much as you love me
	And the day you’ll find me
Tell me who you see
	Tell me who you see

Fight your fear, fight your dreams
If you wanna make sure you love me
You’ll have to find me
I won’t help, I can’t help

Spy me as much as you love me
	And the day you’ll find me
Tell me who you see
	Tell me who you see

Copyright JoFa - Didier Farrugia

Spy Me

Captain Rumblood

Music T. Dani - Amélie. A - Chris - JoFa
Texte JoFa - Copyright 2017

I stole that bottle when he stole my ship
‘felt old like that old Neisson (great rum) shit
Burnt inside, I knew me old but alive
Salt in my beard on the island of broken bones
‘felt I did not need my heart anymore
‘looked straight to the sun so mad
He felt me anger and called the storm
I stood still, laughing at lightning’s
Waiting for the small change girl,
Days and days and became a tree,
A bird stopped on my branch,
I caught his legs and fled away to Paraty’s Bay
I saw the rope supposed to tie Pirates heart
Tying their heads on Betrayal path
Saw ladies less loyal than Mermaids,
Tasting easy flowers and spicy princess
Like sweet music you can’t get of your head
I went through the 7 seas
Breathing smoke of guns
Smelling fresh blood
Kept my eyes on the only cap
Unique feeling sparkling more than gold and ruby
Stronger than ship and sea
Thriving for Freedom and Dignity
With half leg, half head and half life
I am captain Rumblood

Captain Rhumblood

LOSING MY COLOR 

Music Nadsat & JoFa
Lyrics joFa
© Fading Call 2018

I am losing my color	my hot dark red
I am almost blue	I am almost dead
Mixed up feelings 	and all is grey
I am losing my brain   but I 	am keeping my pain

	Hope I’ll keep my voice 		until I die
	God help me keep my voice  	to sing away my tears
	God help me keep my voice 	until I am dry
	Dont wanna lose the blues
	Dont wanna lose the blues
	But all is grey

I am losing my color	my hot dark red
Where is the green	where is the hole
Losing my color	and all is grey
I am losing my white but I 	am keeping my black

	Hope I’ll keep my voice 		until I die
	God help me keep my voice  	to sing away my tears
	God help me keep my voice 	until I am dead
	Dont wanna lose the blues
			Dont wanna lose the blues
			But all is grey

I am losing my color	my hot dark red
I am almost blue	I am almost dead
Dont wanna lose the blues 	but all is grey
I am losing my light but I 	am keeping my pride

	Hope I’ll keep my voice 		until I die
	God help me keep my voice  	to sing away my tears
God help me keep my voice 	until I am dead
Dont wanna lose the blues
Dont wanna lose the blues
But all is grey

Lyrics © Copyright JoFa 2007

Losing my color

BIRDS OF SPACE

© Fading call 2018
Music by NadSat & Harmonica + Voices JoFa
Lyrics JoFa

While people are sleeping
Lost souls are drinking
Lost souls are singing
Lost souls are sinking
Lost souls 		are laughing
But Lost souls	are loving   

Black cat is howling
In the heart of the night
People are dreaming
Lost souls are drinking

While people are sleeping
Lost souls are drinking
In the smoke of the night
Lost souls are floating
While people are dreaming
Lost souls are floating
In the dark of the night
In the dark of the night

Lost souls are drinking
Lost souls are swearing
Lost souls are dying
But Lost souls	are loving
In the end of the night
In the dark of the night

Birds Of Space

PISTOLEROS

Music © Copyright 2018 Nadsat & JoFa
Lyrics © Copyright 2018 JoFa

When you are looking in my eyes
You see the guns
When I am looking in your eyes 
I see the guns

You know, you know, you can’t trust me
And me either

When you are looking at my colts
You see the smoke
So now you know I can use them
How many shots I did
I can see the count in your eyes

	We are standing still
Trying to make these seconds
An eternity
A space of peace

But you know you can’t trust me
And me either
Although I see tears in your eyes
You’d rather see me lay on the ground
And me either

	Staring at each other
	This fear ties us
Together
I wish we could be in peace
Together

If we could, if we could
We can’t
Look at this fear 
Look at this fear
We won’t overcome

Love me tender
Till the summer
Under the summer sky
Only stars
Get out the fear

Love me tender
Till the summer
Under the summer sky
Only stars
Let me keep you in my arms
Ohhh 
Give me shelter

MINORITY

Pistoleros

STRIPES ON THE CEILING
© Fading Call
Music Daly Gana & Nadsat 
Voices : Daly Gana & JoFa
Lyrics : JoFa

Stripes on the ceiling
Like my mind love and hate
Black and white - Black and white 
In this grey world

I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
Shrink suits - shrink people
I can hear the music of heaven
Through the jail bars
I see the skies - the skies
			By the end of my days

		I will find a way – to your arms
And there –
I will lay on your silver hair
				
I will find a way – to your arms
And there –
I will lay on your silver hair
		By the end of my days

I dream solving myself
And riding on the clouds
The eternal snow is calling me
I dream licking your honey body
Princess of the Milky Way
I know that – I know
		By the end of my days

I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT

Stripes on the ceiling
Like my mind love and hate
Black and white - Black and white 
In this grey world
I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT - I can’t fit -  I CAN’T FIT

Shrink suits - shrink people
I can hear the music of heaven
Through the jail bars
I see the skies - the skies

I dream solving myself
And riding on the clouds
The eternal snow is calling me
I dream licking your honey body
Princess of the Milky Way
Princess of the Milky Way
Princess of the Milky Way
Princess of the Milky Way
I will find a way – to your arms and there
I will find a way – to your arms and there
I will find a way – to your arms and there

Stripes on the ceiling

FADING CALL

A duo musicians band From France and Tunisia

Electro / Rock music – Alternative Rock – Psychedelic ? How can we define ?
Here are a few comments that some listener left us : 

« Fantastic world vibe, so smooth »
« This is just lush but unnerving & dreamlike & tense. like a David Lynch movie. awesome tune. The harmonica just makes it even more other worldly.  »
« Just beautiful. the melody sinks in wonderfully & then the vocals soar in over the top heartbreaking but also life affirming! this reminds of Nick Caves song 'into my arms'  »
« Cool, mysterious ambience and great vocals »
« Totally enjoyed listening to these songs and vibe »
« This is freakin' brilliant. Love that arpeggio...  »
« Awe-inspiring sound »
« Interesting lyrics, great sounds - especially the harmonica »
« Yes, great vocals too. Loving the feel »
« Very cool. Loving the eclectic nature of electronic and the sound of harmonica »
« Great atmosphere ! »
“ Awesome pick/ right on / nailed it / it's a hip hit / shoot yes / this rock is a great »
« Dreamy feel through the track »
“ :P amazing music !! »
« Good composition, captivating arrangement, unique and stylish vocals ... this is wonderful music »
« Very moving, groovy »
« So much soul. Would love to hear it performed at a show. Beautiful composition and lyrics. »

We thank all those amazing musicians for their comments ! It gives us a good energy 


Mohamed KANNOU aka Nadsat
Tunisia
Composition, guitar, percussions, Drums.

Joseph FARRUGIA aka Jofa
France / Tunisia
Composition, Lyrics, Vocals, guitar, harmonica.

On some of our songs :

Claude GALVEZ
Composition, mix, clavier :
"Stay Home", "Promenons-nous dans les bois", "My Baby Blue", , "Lost in translation"

Krizsta SALAT
Chant :
"Stay Home", " My Baby Blue", "Lost in translation"

Alexandre DELMAS aka Al
France / Iran
Composition, mix,  guitar, claviers.

On “ Stripes on the ceiling ” :

Dali GANA
Tunisia
Guitar & vocal sur « Stripes on the ceiling «

Big thanks to Karim Ghelloussi & Galerie Circonstance for the amazing  sculpture.

FADING CALL
De la sagesse comme les statues détruites, les peuples et les espèces disparues, nous n’entendons plus l’appel. Un collectif qui use du son comme un lien : l’humanité, par delà les cultures, langues, territoires et religions. Le son du partage, une halte, une nuit, une heure, un vrai regard posé sur l’autre et… des bras qui nous serrent.

Mohamed KANNOU aka Nadsat
Tunisie
Composition, guitare, percussions, batterie.
Architecte mais aussi architecte du son, amoureux de son pays et particulièrement des iles Kerkennah d’où il est originaire : seul endroit au monde où les hommes possèdent une parcelle de mer. DJ, compositeur, indépendant et sensible…

Alexandre DELMAS aka Al
France/Iran
Composition, guitare, claviers.
Grand, imposant, et pourtant discret, sa stature ne fait qu’accentuer la force de ses arrangements. Iranien par sa mère, il grandit en France où il fait une école de cinéma.

Joseph FARRUGIA aka Jofa
France/Tunisie
Textes, chant, composition, guitare, harmonica.
Survivre à la noirceur de l’humanité, par l’écriture et la musique. Voir un poète en chaque mot et la fleur en chaque âme.

Invité sur Stripes on the ceiling

Dali GANA
Tunisie
Guitare et chant sur « Stripes on the ceiling »
Musicien magnifique, une force de la nature …

Un grand merci à Karim Ghelloussi et la galerie Circonstance pour l'émouvante sculpture.