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Nisa

by John Gallagher

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This song is about a woman named Noor in Nisa Inayat Khan who was brought up in the spiritual tradition of the Sufi's. In 1941 she went off to serve in world war two where she became a spy.

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The light of womanhood was her name
Daughter of a Sufi sage
Became the mother to her siblings When her father passed away
Her mother withdrew inside herself
Noor could never know
What was to come from all the love and the beauty. That she gave.

Brightness Shown from her in all her music and her stories
But the was all to go when war came knocking at the door
The reality of change may break the rules of convention
Communication went from entertainment to intervention
The destination's not always what we seek
The biggest secrets you would never speak
Nisa, how did you ever try to sleep?

Nisa and her brother left from their native shore
To go on to England to volunteer for the cause.
As he diligently worked behind the scenes unbeknown.
She didn't know what was in store, how she would be alone.

She understood the difference between violence and freedom.
A Sufi girl taken from a world that she once knew.
Never did she waiver in the face of her duty
When she was called upstairs to join up with the few
The destination's not always what we seek
The biggest secrets you would always keep
Nisa how do you ever try to sleep?

The special operations saw that she could be discreet.
Her skills in code and radio were something quite unique
They offered her a dangerous path that did freely take
With nothing but false documents, a pistol, and her fate
In and out of danger looking over one shoulder
When all the rest were gone she was tapping the door
Nearly out of darkness, on her way back to freedom
Someone Betrayed her silence as she was to come home
Knowing that she would never see the dawn.
She went to go alone to see them fall
You gave yourself to project them all

Her mother and her brother woke from the same dream
Nisa appeared to them saying ' Now I am free
The only words she spoke before she died were liberty
Those words have now come to pass , Nisa you now can sleep.

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released October 24, 2021
Written by John Gallagher (c) All rights reserved 2016. All Vocals, Classical and electric guitars, Bass, drum sounds, and string sounds by John Gallagher. Additional mixing and mastering by Brigs

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