Langsuir

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Director: Emi Norazalli
Director of Photography (DOP): Choi Chin Loong
Editor: Feisal Kassim
Produced by: Nomono Productions & Langsuir

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Lyrics (Malay & English Translation) below :
Music/Lyrics – Bentara

Song/lyric description:
"The Nusantara is a way of life, encompassing water and land that cannot be separated. Alongside it, manners and ethics were born, shaping the strong identity of the Nusantara peninsular and archipelago. It brings harmony, and if disrupted, it will bring immense suffering to those who initiate the disturbance. Water and land are revered for as long as life endures."

Lyrics (Malay & English Translation) below :

Tak berjalan, tak bertapak
Selagi boleh air diranduk
Tak berumah, di dataran
Selagi tanahnya berpaya
Tak terpisah, Melayunya
Selagi laut berhampiran
Takkan hilang Melayunya
Selagi dikemam air dan tanah

Pucuklah pauh belimbing batu
Sengat sembilang ala… di tapak tangan
Sungguhlah jauh negeri satu
Hilang di mata ala… di hati jangan

Padang perahu alamnya di lautan
Padang hati kalbu alamnya di fikiran
Jangan dilayan semaknya khayal
Jangan dijolok sarangnya si tebuan

Kerengga di dalam buluh
Serahi air mawar
Sampai hasrat tubuh
Tuan jadi penawar

Pinggan tak retak
Nasi tak dingin
Tuan tidak hendak
Aku pun tak ingin

(musical homage to UNANIMATED Eye Of The Greyhound)

Apa guna Tuan memasang pelita
Jika tidak diakar dengan sumbunya?
Apa guna Tuan bermain mata
Jika berdolak dalih dengan sungguhnya

Seloka sendu, tangis dan ketawa
Jadi pengerat saudara seagama
Tujuh gunung sembilan lautan
Kalau tak mati, pastinya aku turutkan

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I won’t walk, won’t set a foot,
so long as the water can be waded.
No house upon the plain,
so long as the ground is swamp.

Its Malayness will not be parted,
so long as the sea is near.
Its Malayness will not vanish,
so long as Water and Earth are held upon the tongue.

Mango shoots, starfruit on stone;
ah—the catfish’s sting upon the palm.
Truly, that land is far;
out of sight—ah—but never out of heart.

The boats’ field lies in the ocean;
the heart’s field lives in the mind.
Do not tend the thicket of delusion;
do not poke the hornet’s nest.

Weaver ants inside the bamboo,
a pitcher filled with rosewater—
when the body’s longing arrives,
you become the remedy.

The plate is not cracked,
the rice is not cold;
if you do not desire it,
neither do I.

What use to light a lamp
if it has no wick to root it?
What use to make eyes
if you only hedge and excuse?

A playful verse of sorrow, tears, and laughter—
it binds the kin of faith.
Seven mountains, nine seas—
if I still live, surely I will follow.