برای
Shervin Hajipour / شروین حاجی پور| English Version / Versione inglese: Rana Mansour | |
| FOR | FOR WOMAN, LIFE, LIBERTY |
| For dancing in the streets (1) For the fear when kissing (2) For my sister, your sister, our sisters For changing rotten brains (3) For shame of money-lacking (4) For yearing of just normal life For garbadge boy and his dreams (5) For this planned economics (6) For this polluted air (7) For Valiasr(8) and it's worn-out trees (9) For Piruz and his possible extinction (10) For dogs, innocent but banned (11) For tears with no end For this moment will never happen again (12) For smiling faces For students, for future For this forced heaven (13) For the national elite imprisoned For Afghan children (14) For all this "for"s with no repeat For all this empty chants (15) For houses, collapsing like card ones (16) For the feel of peace For the sun after long nights For pills of nerves and insomnia For men, homeland, development (17) For girls wishing to be boys (18) For women, life, freedom For freedom For freedom For freedom | For dancing in the allies and the streets, For the thrill and the fear of getting caught kissing For my sister, my brother, and unity For all the times we tried to change their minds and stale beliefs For the loss of pride, and poverty For the dream of just a normal life for you and me For all the children who are starving for a loaf of bread For the greed of politics and all the lies they spread For all the mass-polluted air we breathe, For all the litter in the streets and all the dying trees For all the animals who suffer from elimination For all the cats and dogs who love us without no conditions For all the tears that seem to never end For all the images that keep on turning in our heads For a simple smile, for just a little while For the future generations fighting for their time For empty promises of heaven in the after-life For all the imprisonment of beautiful minds For all the babies who are born and for the ones who died For all the times you told the truth, and all the times you lied For all the speeches that we heard about a million times For all the shacks and shelters that were sold to make a dime For just a glimpse of a peaceful life, For the rising of the sun after an endless night For all the pills we pop just to get some sleep For all mankind, for our country For all the boys and girls who never knew equality For woman, for life, liberty. |
(2) Kissing in public is prohibited
(3) Rahbar and mullas that took the power and holding it for long decades
(4) GDP per capita there is about the same as in Bosnia or Albania, the country is very poor indeed despite of bottomless oil barrel right under the feet
(5) The reference to a video with a boy collecting garbadge in the streets, who, being asked "What's your dream?" answers "Dream - what's this?"
(6) Level of state regulation in economics is very high, the highest in Middle East, almost all the main enterprises are state-running and there are even fixed prices, of course, it causes regular economical crisises
(7) Because of sanctions there is no modern automotive industry so the air in cities is exremely polluted by non-ecological car exhausts
(8) One of the main and the longest streets of Tehran, along it there is an area of coffeshops and westernized public
(9) It means ecological problems with lack of attention. With no maintain trees are drying up and die. In a city where +45 it's a normal temperature it is a problem if there is no shade of trees
(10) Once again a reference to ecology and the state's disregard for it. Piruz is the name of the last one Asian cheetah cub in Iran
(11) It is prohibited to have dog and walk it, sometimes raids to capture and kill dogs occur
(12) At the photo in the clip there is wrighter Hamid Esmailion sitting with his 9 y.o. daughter Rira who died in flight 752 crush in 2020 when the plane was hit by AA rocket over Tehran
(13) Strict moral norms forcedly implemeting into society, officially leading the people to the heaven, actually causing situations like with Mahsa Amini
(14) Afghans in Iran have very few rights and low social status, their children have no right to school education and thus have to work
(15) While children in schools are forced to chant igeological slogans like "death to America", the children of rahbar itself live exactly in this America, and live very freely
(16) Because of poverty and corruption in the building supervision houses are very badly emgineered and build so it causes their collapse sometimes
(17) A chant-reply to "women, life, freedom" using to show it is not just a feminist protests but a protests of all the society against the dictatorship
(18) Because of inequality some things are forbidden for women, there are many manifestations of glass ceiling, so women are pity they're not men who have way more opportunities