Album: My Friend Hafiz by The Levins
Music: Ira Scott Levin & Julia Bordenaro Levin
Lyrics: Hafiz/Ladinsky/Levin © 2013
- inspired by the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission.
Lyrics
When the Violin Hafiz/Ladinsky/Levin © 2013
When the violin can begin to forgive the past
- it starts singing.When the violin can begin to stop worrying
what the future will bring - it starts laughing.
Lean down and comb me into your hair.
Let me know, let me know you are there.
When the violin, can begin
to forgive all the wounds
that the others are bringing - it starts singing:
Yi li yi li li li li- Yi li li li li li li
When the violin can begin