Ikhtary (You choose) story:

This is the first complete song Kadim composed musically for Nizar, and the first he played in public as a poem-song!

He composed the song as a challenge while in college! He was about to get expelled from school because the Dean heard that Kadim has composed a song that has no merit in his own opinion- the professor of classic Iraqi music- and it will be a shame for all the college that the students are composing such common light unworthy pop songs! It was "Abart Elshat- I have passed to the other shore" that made this problem!

One of the teachers knew about Kadim's Talent and about the impending expulsion and it was his last college year, so it would have been a great loss for him as a student! So he suggested that Kadim hurriedly compose a poem in the classical form of music and sing in the yearly college concert , where the minister will attend also!

So Kadim composed it in a short time, and at the day of the concert he was on stage, the Dean was about to stop him, but he asked for a final chance, and the music started. The Dean loved the song and he was never expelled and completed his years and graduated successfully!

Later he tried to meet Nizar the poet to get the rights of the poem, and when he met him Nizar loved the music and it was his favorite of all Kadim's poem composing, as written by Nizar!. It was the start of the most fruitful cooperation in the modern Arabic music world!

This is a heart touching poem with a heart breaking question, which way do you want to die on my chest or in my poems! It has both strong heart wrenching words and equally strong heart aching music! with Kadim voice the perfect deliverance to the complex emotional state of the meaning of the poem!

I couldn't find a video with English Lyrics, so here is the link to the words and the video separately ! 

English Lyrics

The song 





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