Musulmanes [English translation]

The sky is so low over the dunes

That it looks like we could touch the moon

Just by raising our arms

Like a fire underneath the earth

The northern lights have burnt the stones

And whitened the roofs of Ghardaïa

Veiled not to be seen

Surrounded by absolute silence

Stony virgins with the body of Diana

The women have for their weariness

Enclosed gardens of solitude

The long sobs of the muslim women

It's a scream

It's an hymn

It's also the desert and the wind

All the love they have inside their body

The glory of men and the hymn of the dead

The joy of bearing a child

It's a scream

It's an hymn

It's also the pain and the blood

All the fury they carry inside themselves

The fear of men, the fear of the sky

And all the forests of Lebanon

They stand amongst fields of ruins

Under the icy wind of the hills

That the night sends them

For them, time stands still,

It will forever be eternity

The twilight of Sanaa

Veiled not to be seen

I am jealous of those who have known them

Stony virgins with the body pf Diana

Shouting in the immense silence

At the time when their lovers fall asleep

The long sobs of the muslim women

It's a scream

It's an hymn

It's also the desert and the wind

All the love they have inside their body

The glory of men and the hymn of the dead

The joy of bearing a child

It's a scream

It's an hymn

It's also the pain and the blood

All the fury they carry inside themselves

The fear of men, the fear of the sky

And all the forests of Lebanon