ترسم آزاد نسازد
Tarsam Azad Nasazad
“I Fear That Freedom Will Not Be Made”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026Transliteration
Tarsam azado nasazad ze qafas sayadam Aanqadar ta ke rahe bagh rawad az yadam
Aatash az ah ba kashanaye sayad zanam Gar az ein band esarat nakonad azadam
Gar che bashad ghame alam ba dilam lahooti Hich kas dar gham man nest, az ein dil-shadam
متن اصلی
ترسم آزاد نسازد ز قفس صیادم آنقدر تا که رهِ باغ رود از یادم
آتش از آه به کاشانه صیاد زنم گر از این بند اسارت نکند آزادم
گرچه باشد غمِ عالم به دلم لاهوتی هیچ کس در غمِ من نیست، از این دلشادم
I Fear That Freedom Will Not Be Made — one of his most explicitly political recordings, the fear that the promise of freedom will not be fulfilled under the new order.
About This Recording
I fear that freedom will not be made — one of his most openly political recordings, and one of his bravest. After the Saur Revolution of April 1978, the new communist government's talk of liberation rang hollow to Afghans watching intellectuals, artists, and clerics vanish. The fear the song names was not abstract. It was the week's news.
He kept recording songs like this knowing what they could cost him — knowing, in fact, that they could be used, and eventually were, to justify his blacklisting. This one captures the moment private dread became public statement.
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