Shahrzad Sepanlou Live at Yoshi's San Francisco, July 2011
Performing "Man o to, derakht o baroon" (Me & You, Tree & Rain)
Poem by Ahmad Shamloo
Music & Arrangement by Farzin Farhadi
www.shahrzadmusic.com
من باهارم تو زمین
من زمینم تو درخت
من درختم تو باهار
ناز انگشتای بارون تو باغم می کنه
میون جنگلا طاقم می کنه
تو بزرگی مث شب
اگه مهتاب باشه یا نه
تو بزرگي مث شب 
خود مهتابی تو اصلا خود مهتابی تو
تازه وقتی بره مهتاب و
هنوز
شب تنها
باید
راه دوری رو بره تا دم دروازه روز
مث شب گود و بزرگي 
مث شب
تازه، روزم كه بياد 
تو تميزي
مث شبنم 
مث صبح
تو مث مخمل ابري 
مث بوي علفي 
مث اون ململ مه نازكي 
اون ململ مه 
كه رو عطر علفا، مثل بلاتكليفي 
هاج و واج مونده مردد
ميون موندن و رفتن 
ميون مرگ و حيات...

English Translation by Ahmad Sadri
iranian.com

I am Spring, you the earth,
I am Earth, you the tree,
I am Tree, you, the Spring -- 
The charm of your rainfall fingers
Makes me a garden,
Takes me in jungles.
You're immense, like the night.
Moonlight or no,
You're immense, 
Like the night
You're the moonlight, itself, the moonlight.
And what if the moonlight is gone 
and still
The lonely night 
must 
Go a long way to reach the threshold of the day 
You're immense and deep
Like the night.
And what if the day comes?
You're fresh
Like the dew,
Like the dawn
You're the velvet clouds,
The smell of grass.
You're thin as that fabric of fog:
That fabric of fog
That is gone astray on the aroma of the grass
Left there clueless
Between coming and going,
Between life and death...


Shahrzad Sepanlou Man o to, derakht o baaroon (Shamloo)

Shahrzad sings in Persian, English and French. She is based in Los Angeles.  
www.shahrzadmusic.com

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out...

Shahrzad Sepanlou Man o to, derakht o baaroon (Shamloo)

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