Tamino - The First Disciple Lyrics

her dinlediğimde beni bambaşka dünyalara götürüyor, her dinlediğimde hiç keşfetmediğim bi yanımı açığa çıkarıyor, hiç bilmediğim duyguları yaşatıyor. umarım hayatı boyunca tüm güzellikler onunla olur ve o da bizimle bu güzellikleri paylaşmaya devam eder, her şey için teşekkür ederiz Tamino, seni seviyoruz ❤️

@Alex Pladja konser ne zaman nerden ulasabiliriz bilgilere

@N' gozlerinden opuyorum canim 😆

@N' kurban hocam bence birbirimize abone olup arada allahin selamini alip vermek cok makuldur

@kelkafalicimadam YA GİDEMİYORUM KRİZ GEÇİRMEK

Crazy how profond and melancholic this song feels ... Quite transporting and magical aswell ❤️

tamino we need more of your intensive music and the instrument just perfect !! my favourite artist forever.

finding your music two years ago was one of the best things that has ever happened to me

Depression:cured
Eyes:shining
Ears:blessed
World:healed

I can't believe there is a new song this is just so amazing !! no words this is so powerful as ever--

Sesinin büyüsüne kapılıp gidiyorum her dinlediğimde. Yeni şarkını dört gözle bekliyordum. Masalsı sesinle, mütevazi duruşunla iyiki varsın. Tüm güzellikler seni bulsun 🌺 İstanbul'a gelmeni sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum ♥️

I don't now why but every single piece of music you make speaks directly to my soul. Your melodies and lyrics are something unique. Thank you for speaking and nurturing to my soul. 💜

I just finished reading The Song of Achilles a few minutes ago. I'm still trying to recover. This did not help. I feel like bawling my eyes out. It feels divine and it's crazy how it fits with the story. The timing couldn't be more perfect.

me encanta, tenia muchisimas ganas de escucharte de nuevo!!!

Every song of yours is like a precious jewel. Greetings from Honduras, Tamino, it's wonderlful to have you back! Best wishes always! 🌎🇭🇳

Çok özlemiştim.. 2019'da ilk kez keşfettiğimden beri hiçbir şey ruhuma bu denli işlemedi. Muhteşem her zamanki gibi 🤍🌃

I don't have the proper words that can describe this masterpiece or my feelings ! , Such an angelic voice ❤️ the sound of العود is amazing , rarely to hear such a combination , you are a unique artist who combined successfully the arabic touch in the music 🎵, i must add that you deserve the name you was given Amir because you are really a Prince 🌸

We missed you!!! Your music is as magical as ever. The lyrics, as usual, touched my soul and blessed my ears with the stunning poetry. The oud gave me such a boost!! I feel so high on its sound. Your voice is as haunting as ever pls never stop

This is just pure art,
Your word have always been touching
And the music is incredible
I am so in love ❤️❤️🥺

Mark my words, your fame will start here; because you deserve it Tamino.

Yo solo quiero que sepan que a este hombre yo le rezo todas las noches🛐

When tamino was running in the middle of the crowd i felt that! It feels like a nightmare, you don't know where you are, you are lost, you are afraid, and you don't belong, the confusion and the struggle , it is soo good and the whole vid is full of details, it perfectly depicts the lyrics and matchs the music

Ainda não digeri que estou acompanhando um lançamento dele, conceito novo pra mim. Tristeza? Who?

Love how the final stanzas refer to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The entire song deeply resonates with me and my most recent relationship. It was my first. I broke up with him two days ago. Tamino has blessed us once again with a masterpiece, just in time for healing and rumination.

i can't even start describing my feelings. i can start by saying it was totally worth to wait. tamino your music is totally in an another level the moment i started listening i instantly realized how much i missed your music. i am forever grateful for it. the middle eastern melodies and your talented fingers playing the oud was enough to make my heart beat up so fastly and gave me goosebumps. thank you for not depriving us from your unique music. i will never stop supporting you. love you so much❤️❤️❤️

Le retour du meilleur artiste Belge

Of course I won’t find the perfect words to describe this masterpiece all I can say is thank you for creating this work of art. This is Amazing 🤍

i feel like you can tell that he's more confident and comfortable,whether it's artistically or just in this new chapter of his music career i dont know but i really really like this .

This is so good.. the first sequel shows how he was before fame and that he did everything on his own while everyone admired his art. Then this sequel vanishes away and we get a glimpse at his life, how lost he was in his own self, in parties, in sex, discos and so on. After that we see that he is walking through darkness, through hell but he is still capable of controlling the monster he is carrying aka the dinosaur… he is even watching the light and wants to achieve that. But then when he gets to his goal, he looses himself, he becomes a puppet at the end which is being controlled by the media, the fans, the public and the industry. You can even see the wires or the cables at the end being pointed from the crowed to him which is contradicting the first sequel. He isn’t free anymore, he is being watched, censored and judged. But he did all of this for fame, for being admired and desired and now everyone would even pay to sleep with him. He is being objectified and he criticises all of this bc he isn’t what everyone calls him to be, he is that old friend that he misses, that is destroyed and will never come back. He is changed, he is new. At the end he recognises that no amount of fame can wash all of his mistakes, his imperfections and his human nature.🤍 thanks for reading🤍

Commercial success is much appreciatted, but true authentic timeless art is more than just a rollercoaster, it's something which has profound meaning in our existence. A beautiful blending of tradtional sacred sounds and modern contemporary music!
Sami Yusuf and Tamino are one of the few exceptional artist in modern times who make a harmonious married between modernity and tradition in music.
"Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise." - Rumi

Meu deus como esperei por esse momento!!!! Perfeito em tudo que propõe, a voz mais linda 💙

Beautiful and powerful. Sonically and lyrically a masterpiece

Beautiful oud playing, beautiful song. I really like the transition at 4:11. Thank you for giving the world a new melody. I’m so happy everyone is hearing your voice again. ✨

Hep farklı hissettirmeyi seven bir sesin,kalplere uzanan sessiz yolculuğu...Kelimeler sesine boyanmış yine.🖤

IM SO HAPPY to finally have new Tamino content, his music is utterly unique and artistic I don’t think any other artist has made anything like this before

in my dead life i was occupied by silence and dullness for a while that i didn't know where is the end ..I became indifferent to life..but ur voice..ur music..ur song in particular stirred in my soul feelings buried by time..
ur voice makes me feel alive again..makes me feel things that can't be explained by words..

I'm so so happy to hear some new music from you!! I was literally wondering what you could be up to the other day 🥰💖

I feel in a different world with each of your songs, my life becomes more meaningful. You are like the sunshine of my life 🌞

My heart is so full right now. I am so thrilled to have new music from my favorite artist. This song really hits me at a time where I relate to it most. Liquid poetry and pure honesty. He’s the artist of a generation.

@Terra Mater awww thank you so much!

Love your version of the river lullaby Jada!!! 👏👏👏❤️

ohh yes🥺🥺🥺

The middle eastern elements in this song are so incredible, the Oud sound is so soothing and goes well with your voice, I’m so glad you’re back with new music, you deserve so much recognition, love from Egypt

Made me feel like Tamino is singing to his own old self, who's starting to be forgotten because of his growth. There's a moment in the crowd when we see a double silhouette of him. Tamino is the first disciple of his own self as an artist and as a self-developer.
P.S. if you've seen the album cover)))

@Sssssplash is it confirmed by Tamino or his team or is it just rumour?

@Oier Garcia oh firstly, there's nothing to be sorry for and secondly, the new album is said to be launching in September

@Sssssplash i didnt knowww and do we know the date???
Sorry for my english

Wait this is so easy to understand when u first watch the video lol

So happy he's back. I feel like he is talking to himself in this song. He doesn't want to follow the crowd and wants to be genuine and true to himself. He wants to be himself. And we know that a lot of artists lose themselves in the music industry. That's just my interpretation.

Apart from the obvious increased tension of hearing literally NOTHING from one of your fav contemporary artists for TWO FREAKING COVID YEARS, I think Tamino couldn't have hit us with a more sincere, intimate, personal and of course poetic reflection on the quick rise to fame with his debut.
I think the fact that Tamino has taken two years COMPLETELY withdrawn from the limelight is such a powerful testimony of his integrity alone, and releasing this song as a first voice of speaking to his audience again only adds to that impression.
I love how Tamino reflects on his inner urge to cover his shame in exchange for the 'love' of fame- inevitably bringing him to a more grounded, humble self- the one he was before fame- not knowing how to relate to that self anymore (how he is pulling that freaking dinosaur sceleton behind him is such a hilarious and brilliant image for that!).
Yet being grateful for the 'light' that being an accomplished, expressed artist has brought, too.
There is ambivalence.
There is awkwardness, helplessness.
There are shame and grief.
Admitting to all these feelings, being with the not knowing how to connect to the 'old self' that provides love anchored in self instead of outsorcing to fame, is the very first step of growing roots into that part again.
Even though I feel he is speaking to himself alone in the song, he is also offering a powerful mirror to his audience.
In what way are we projecting our yearnings, desires and phantasies on to him?
Even sexualising, objectifying, pedestaling, dehumanising him?
I think these reflections have the potential to call us into a maturing as audience, too. ♥️

@kssgpv Thank your for adding your thoughts. I love that we can all have our own interpretation of the lyrics!

Oooh, right, that makes total sense!!
We've seen Egyptian tropes in his other videos.
The way he is pulling the skeleton could be an expression of the weight of constantly being compared to his famous grandfather by the media (and his Arabic fans?), while having little actual relation to him and the culture- apart from the very obvious influence in his music.
Yup, the pressures and bizarreness of fame and establishing a career in showbiz are hard to understand for many.
How thousands or even millions of people suddenly feel like they have such a deep connection to you because your music has spoken to them so powerfully, and they project these strong feelings onto you as a person, and they are just strangers to you.
Your life consists of 'meeting' these people in concerts, but only for a night, and giving press interviews in which you are presented in the same, stereotypical way and have to answer the same, stereotypical questions.
These things must be very strange or even disorienting especially for artists who are usually very sensitive.
Lucky him, and lucky us that he felt he needed to step back and digest- and did!
Something that artists are often alienated from in the productivity pressure of music biz is how every creation needs time to grow, and how you as a person also need to grow for that!
My experience is that if you allow for the space and slowness, the creation turns out the most powerful and beautiful!
I can really feel the lack of creative and emotional substance in 'rushed' albums that artists were pressured into by their labels after their first commercial success.
Surely hella excited for more. 😍

I love this types of comments that can start great and importants reflections, thank you! I agree that this song is very intimate but he chooses to show it to his audience, maybe to alert us, maybe to relieve himself of this "torture". Tamino is truly an artist!

I think he talks about his shame of not being able to love his true self. He made a persona , he speaks poems in order to be desired but it only brought him sadness. His friend is this true self that brought him light now that he met him but he will be forgotten again

The rest of this year's gonna be so much better just for your new music alone. Thank you Tamino for sharing your gift with us ♥

True

I agree. This news really lifted me today.

Ne desem boş, Doğu müzik ezgilerini çok güzel kullanıyor ve kendine has bir havası var ki bunu hissedebiliyorsunuz. Bu tür bir müziği seveceğimi hiç düşünmezdim demek ki her şeyin bir ilki varmış.

I listened to this song again and again and again. And somehow I feel like he is talking to himself and not really to someone else. I always loved the melancholy in his songs but this one sounds like sadness and pain. Like someone is lost and tries to heal his wounds with the wrong medicine. Everyone is talking about how he looks. Like an antique greek God. Maybe it makes him sad and he feels like everyone wants his body or "just the artist" but not the real Tamino. I mean it's speculation but maybe?

Could be. 🤔 I mean everyone is watching him while he is playing the oud but when he stops they're gone and he is alone again. And also the threads at the end. Nobody recognized him in the crowd. Maybe it shows how you feel lonely even if you're not alone. I hope he has someone who loves him just for his pure heart and not because of his music or his look. I know that it's very painful when people love you because of the "wrong" or unimportant things.

this exactly, i got the impression that he's talking to the tamino from the amir era

La magia de volver a escuchar esta voz que te envuelve y acaricia de manera tan sorprendente. Increíble poder, Tamino. Tuve la suerte de verlo en concierto antes de la pandemia, quedé más fascinado aún si cabe. Disfrutemos y volemos con él por mucho tiempo.

@Cecilia sandoval fue a Madrid

Que suerteee, que precioso momento 💗✨

Que geniaaaal, donde fue su concierto?

Que suerte

não acredito que eu tô presenciando o tamino lançando música nova

fiquei tão feliz ontem q sonhei com ele kkkk achei q já tivesse passado dessa fase mas pelo visto meu coração ainda é adolescente

tô tão felizzzz e é tão bom ver que tem gente br que gosta dele😳

Mds, sim, ganhei meu dia e provavelmente mês com isso!

Nem me diga! Faz mais ou menos 1 ano que descobri ele e só agora finalmente tô acompanhando um lançamento, e vale muito a pena esperar!

I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I'm having indescribable feelings right now. I fell in love with your voice and your tunes once again. Magical, unique, fascinating, addictive... I had such different feelings when I listened to the song that I listened with tears in my eyes. It's like a magical taste I've never tasted anywhere else, in anyone else; The more I listen, the more it it hooks me in. I feel the touching lyrics and melodies of your song circulating in my cells. I can't take my eyes off the video, masterpiece. I felt the harmony, the feeling, the atmosphere, the soul of the song and the music video to my marrow, I lived it. I'm grateful to you for giving us your velvety, restful voice and for taking me to other lands I didn't know about, I didn't explore. You've been a part of my life with all your songs and I thank you so much for your masterpieces. I'm glad you're here, Tamino.💙

It is so beautiful,you can feel the love,the magic,it makes you cry of how wonderful it is,this is real,that connection of all inside you.Tamino is more than a musician,he talks with our souls.

exactly.

Oh... It's like you've found the most precise words to describe all what's happening on the inside... I'm feeling the exact same way... Thank you 🤍

Listening to his voice makes me feel safe and understood in my misery. He's the joy I find in pain. And this lyrics is just...

I always fall into a trance when he sings. What a beautiful voice.

I'm waited so long for some new music, I'm so happy 😊

@mojriaan omg u called me illy, hi internet friend

@321 Action dude you need to find my 2013 comments, there are still on the platform somewhere

what illy doin here

@illneas Damn, small world.

My expectations were high but this exceeds those so called high expactations. I literally had to take a break and then come back to listen. I don't know how to exactly describe this but the song and the video has so much... subtance to it? It's brimming with heart thrilling things. I don't know how you do it, but you do it. Damn....

Lyrics:
old friend, these poems that you preach
They're being wasted as you speak
Remind me once more how they came to be your calling
Do you even know you're falling?
You know that for you I'd give an arm
I'm one of few that never meant you harm
And I heed you like I heed fire and thunder
But from time to time I wander
And lately I did wonder
If you did it all to make you feel desired
Did it all to make you feel admired
For love to replace your shame
That's quite the group that you have gathered now
Most of them, they just want you somehow
They would pay any price to kiss your skin
Don't tell me that is loving
You know that don't mean nothing
You know
You must know
And yet you give it all to make you feel desired
Give it all to make you feel admired
For love to replace your shame
You give it all to make you feel desired
Give it all to make you feel admired
For love to replace your shame
For love to replace your shame
For us to praise your name
Now my friend I won't forget
The darkness blinding me before we met
It's all I need to remember you
As the light you were
Even though for sure
You won't remember me
No, you won't remember me
I'm afraid that no amount of fame
Will ever wash away the shame
Of knowing not how to love your only friend
Who will love you till the end

you just copied the content of the description didn't you?

Thank you!❤

Man you're quick

DISCLAIMER :
I rarely comment youtube music video but since i appreciate Tamino's craft and the efforts put into his will to translate his own thoughts, THIS IS my own analysis of SOME PARTS of the clips (not the whole thing because i'm a lazy person) but :
At the beginning (0:16 seconds) we see Tamino playing his oud, surrounded by a crowd paying a serious attention to him playing music, then, we see a "shadow" of himself passing by, like he saw a reminiscence of his "past self" before his life as an artist began according to the lyrics too (My old friend, these poems that you preach
/ They're being wasted as you speak / Remind me once more how they came to be your calling) which means that his life as an artist probably created within himself a dissonance between his real self and how he probably ended seeing himself when he became an artist.
The important detail here, is that when he isn't playing music, the crowd around him dissapear, and he retrieves himself alone, which means that without all this "music/stage life" nobody would probably pay attention to who he truly is.
At 1:55, you see him opening his eyes wider and wider, like he wasn't ready to welcome all this success and these people coming to see him (like he probably felt that he was a stranger before, and having all this attention being put on him may had suprised him) because if you pay attention, you see a crowd going to a direction, and he followed this movement, like he got flood by what was happening to him in his life as an artist.
At 2:17 we can clearly see him passing by the crowd, but the fact that he is trying to "climb" shows that he wants to probably get higher and higher without really paying attention of what is going on around him (by the way we can see also Ruben Van Houtte (the drummer from his band) in the crowd too (i guess?)
(I let you the pleasure to translate the dancing party part and the "skeleton" he is holding behind him (looks like a camel probably?) which is a reminiscinece of his own roots, and that he will carry with him no matter where he goes because it's a part of his own identity and also musicaly (these arabics / oriental influence coming from probably his grandfather who was Muharram Fouad (remember, he is half Egyptian/Lebanese and Belgian?)
At 5:32 we can see Tamino watching someone with a certain intensity (probably a mix between melancholia / sadness but also love) in his eyes according to the lyrics (I'm afraid that no amount of fame /
Will ever wash away the shame / Of knowing not how to love your only friend /Who will love you till the end)
I guess here that Tamino is looking at himself, and is probably "ashamed" or "sad" that he "abandonned" himself by lacking of self-love (he probably felt shame of not giving himself more time to cope with all of the things that happened to him in a really short time).
Right after that, we can see Tamino playing Oud again (remember at the beginning? The people around him were only listening to him, but now they have STRINGS attached to him, like he is probably feeling like a puppet who is not doing things by love anymore, but probably feeling himself controlled by the others because of his craft)
(Artists sometimes may want to have a break since fans / audience may want more and more content coming from an artist, which may literally make this last one burnout because it's a real pressure to assume for some) (Remember when he took a break of 2 years during the worldwide pandemic?)
The real important detail here, is the writing on the wall "Struggle to belong" behind him, + the strings attached to him by the people listening to him.
Since Tamino seems to be a really authentic artist putting his heart on this craft, It's like this "face" of him (as an artist) is going on a conflict with his "inner self", like, who is truly in the inside.
May be he doesn't want to have all of this attention anymore? Or may be he is feeling overwhelmed by all that happened to him?
Or may be also he may feel really alone because all of that made him feel appreciated for what he brough to people (music) and not for WHO he truly is.
All of these questions will remain a mystery, but the message behind the clip (when you know the artist) is really powerful!
Thanks for reading my analysis!

I love it. I was thinking exactly the same and those strings are the best thing in this clip💗 I'm glad that you go deep watching and listening to him✨️

I am SPEECHLESS about everything ... especially the lyrics! Very impressive! I am so glad Tamino is back!

i have been feeling lost nowadays, this song is released just at the right time. my fav thing about your work is that i know i will be amazed before even listening to it. from lyrics to video, you created a masterpiece, again. i know i have to see you at least once in my life. i feel so lucky cuz you chose istanbul after a long time. can't wait to see you in istanbul

Tamino and Hozier, my most favourite musicians and artists of all time. Because they don't just sing and make music, their music is so much more than just music... it's pure art and poetry, it's a higher form of love and divinity. God I feel so lucky to be alive in the same time of such divine gifts for humanity...

eu esperei tanto por isso, sua música me enche de alegria de uma forma tão calma e boa ao mesmo tempo com um ar melancólico e um sentimento tão mágico, me sinto em outras realidades, flutuando nessa vida, viajando em outras, é realmente imaculada. Obrigada por nos ofertar sua arte ❤️💌 | usei minhas melhores palavras (◍•ᴗ•◍)♡

I love this man and his style, the perfect match up between eastern and western music 😍😍

I can't stop my tears, I'm sad, but this makes me feel that precious moments of sadness،): I am an Arab girl with bad English. Tamino makes me want to learn the language more just to listen to his songs without the need for translation

feeling truly grateful to once again be immersed in his music, there’s nothing quite like this, the way it washes over you and moves you.. looking forward to all that is to come!

I was having a bad day then I saw this. I can't even describe how I feel right now. So glad that I found you, your music, it's like magic. You made me feel like in universe that no one discovered yet. Can't wait to 26th June in İstanbul!♡

Same here

@Zuhal Ünsal i don't see the part where i asked if what i did was good or not, I'm just saying the Truth and everyone knows the truth is always bitter :)

@alii.shukurlu Ali, I was talking Turkish because i was happy and when I sae your silly comment, I become angry and talking in Turkish. People like you are JUST jealous. Go away from my lovely comment and cry about it in your area. You don't have a right to annoying people.