گُلِستان Gulistan (Story 5) - Saadi Shirazi

[intro, kanun alone, fast picked melody, 8 bars, then war drums crash in full force, no warning, tar joins with hard rhythmic stabs, throat percussion underneath the drums, 16 bars total, no voice yet, the arrival of someone who cannot be ignored] [verse 1, rapper vocal, controlled and proud, drums locked steady underneath, kanun weaves between words, voice of a man describing what he saw, every line landed hard, no wasted syllable] رهنگ زاده ای را بر در سرای اغلمش دیدم که عقل و کیاستی فهم و فراستی زایدالوصف داشت هم از عهد خردی آثار بزرگی در ناصیه ی او پیدا [hook, drums drop to half time, kanun rises, rap vocal slows and opens up, almost sung, tar plays a climbing melodic line on repeat, the star above his head described in full light] بالاى سرش ز هوشمندى مى تافت ستاره بلندى [verse 2, drums return full force, faster now, rapper picks up pace, the wisdom lines delivered sharp, throat rapping fills gaps between bars, kanun stabs punctuate every truth] فی الجمله مقبول نظر افتاد جمال صورت و معنی داشت خردمندان گفته اند توانگرى به هنر است نه به مال بزرگى به عقل است نه به سال [chorus, full ensemble explodes, drums at peak, tar and kanun locked in tight pattern together, rapper delivers each line like a verdict, throat percussion rattles underneath like chains breaking, the accusation and the survival named out loud] ابنای جنس او بر منصب او حسد بردند به خیانتی متهم کردند در کشتن او سعی بی فایده نمودند دشمن چه زند چو مهر باشد دوست [verse 3, beat drops to minimal, only tar plucking, rapper slows to deliberate storytelling pace, the king's question and the answer, calm and devastating, drums re-enter one hit at a time as the answer builds] ملک پرسید که موجب خصمی اینان در حق تو چیست؟ گفت در سایه ی دولت خداوندی دام ملکه همگنان را راضی کردم مگر حسود را که راضی نمی شود الا به زوال نعمت من [hook, kanun melody returns, drums half time, single line repeated twice, quiet before the storm, voice almost a whisper then rising] اقبال و دولت خداوند باد اقبال و دولت خداوند باد [verse 4, hardest beat drop of the song, war drums full, throat rapping most intense here, layered and fierce, rapper at full energy, the envy verses delivered like blows, tar and kanun both driving the rhythm, no space to breathe] توانم آن كه نیازارم اندرون كسى حسود را چه كنم كو ز خود به رنج در است بمیر تا برهى اى حسود كین رنجى است كه از مشقت آن جز به مرگ نتوان رست [chorus, full force, drums and kanun and tar together, throat percussion layered over everything, rapper delivers the curse of the envious with cold precision, the night bat and the sun, the image lands like a hammer] شوربختان به آرزو خواهند مقبلان را زوال نعمت و جاه گر نبیند به روز شب پره چشم چشمه آفتاب را چه گناه [final verse, drums suddenly cut to single pulse, only kanun playing slow and clear, almost mournful, rapper speaks the final lines slowly, each word a stone, throat percussion returns soft and inevitable underneath] راست خواهى هزار چشم چنان كور بهتر كه آفتاب سیاه [outro, war drums return one last time, 8 bars full power, tar plays a single descending line through the thunder, kanun finishes the melody it started in the intro, drums cut on final beat, kanun note held, then silence, complete and earned]