There's this thing I do every once in a while when I'm procrastinating or I'm feeling a bit nostalgic.

I'll log into places like eBay or go on Reddit and I'll search quote unquote Lebanon.

I'm Lebanese and I'm living in Los Angeles now.

So sometimes I just want to see what comes up.

And mostly it's old pictures or sometimes there are trinkets like stamps or old coins.

But sometimes I'll land on something that just makes me so happy because it'll instantly transport me into this moment in my childhood.

And in this case,

this one time,

I found a link to a vinyl record of this song.

Do you love me?

Do you, do you?

Do you need me?

Do you, do you?

Do you want me? Do you, do you? Do you want me?

Do you do you?

And I'm willing to bet that anyone who grew up in the Middle East,

and maybe particularly the Levant, in the last few decades,

definitely knows this song.

Maybe you haven't heard it in years like me,

but there it is buried among your childhood memories. Do you need me? Do you want me? And growing up, I personally remember

thinking that it was a little bit of a joke, you know, like Lebanese trying to sing in English, a language, maybe they didn't speak so well, there was an accent to the singing. They were trying maybe to be a little bit more Western. But when I listened as an adult, I had this new appreciation, actually, for what the band was trying to do. It was trying to do. It was trying to merge anyway.

It's a lot for the sky.

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