I was thinking that Homayoun's voice is really beautiful, but I don’t know why I didn’t like his latest song much. I feel he is compromising to survive inside the country. He is a singer and I shouldn’t expect him to be political, no celebrities around the world do that, but Iran is different.
We have seen many times that there are singers, writers, civil figures, and activists who tried to overcome the restrictions imposed by the regime through bringing down themselves to their coercion in order to be able to operate inside the country, to be able to stay active and do some good, so they won’t get to the point of leaving the country forever.
Homayoun's father tried to do the same and for a long time, he coped. He was silent for many years. His only concern was music and otherwise he was compromising and did not say anything, but in the middle of the road he couldn’t anymore and gave up!
He finally spoke his heart out and his voice got banned from Iranian television forever. But this made him and his voice immortal and he turned to a legend.
Homayoun Shajarian's song "Diare Asheghihayam" (The Land of My Loves), which was released on the Internet at the beginning of the new year 1400 (Hijri Solar calendar), although it is beautiful, it will certainly not be an immortal work by him.
Because swimming against the waves is impressive, swimming with the waves not that much! The waves know how to do that themselves!!!
Song: The Land of My Loves
Singer: Homayoun Shajarian
Lyrics
In the name of Iran
In the name of mankind
In the name of the religion of the faithful
And in the name of wised people!
I have a heart full of sun
A look as clear as rain
I don’t except anything but friendship
I don’t know anything but affection
I don’t want anything but love
I was born in Iran
I’ve only learned kindness
You are my attachments
The refuge for my tiredness
Everywhere I Go From You
I will come to you again
The infinite love is boundless
Your Deserts, one after another
Have life-giving air
Your streets, one after another
If you be my soul,
I’ll be here as long as the world exists
If you be my home
The ground underneath, or my homeland
The land of my loves
All my share of the world
I lived you
By the number of breaths
The infinite love is boundless
Your Deserts, one after another
Have life-giving air
Your streets, one after another
You are that immense embrace
For the breadth of my loneliness
I see the world through your eyes
You are the mirror of my sight
If you be my soul,
I’ll be here as long as the world exists
If you be my home
The ground underneath, or my homeland
I have life because of you
I’ll give that life to you!
Nothing deserves sacrifice but you
I will not leave you
You are my universe!
Your lover won’t stop loving you
Just won’t
