Bahjat Alturjman13 October 2020

Bahjat Alturjman

Country: Libya
Title of Piece: Hometown Smile
Medium: Voice & Instrument
Duration: 3m 34s

“Hometown Smile” is a song I wrote on a guitar in my bedroom, at a time when I was relearning the way I viewed “home”, unconditional love, and their relationship to each other.

About Artist

Bahjat is an independent music artist from Libya, living in Malta and making music in Stockholm, Sweden. With over 20,000,000 on-demand streams, and 50,000,000+ collective views on YouTube, Bahjat is already one of the most successful Libyan music artists in history.
Born and raised in sunny Tripoli, Libya, Bahjat and his family fled to Malta after the Arab spring in 2011, which was a major turning point in his life. In the fall of 2017, Bahjat stumbled upon an opportunity to spend a few months at Musikmakarna, a pop music academy in the north of Sweden, where he met his songwriting and production heroes Max Martin and Johan Shellback.
With today’s music landscape being more multicultural than ever, Bahjat is emerging as a pioneer from the Arab world offering ambitious youth a much-needed role model. By blazing trails and overcoming hardships, Bahjat is an advocate for the fact that one’s circumstances do not define your future.

I don’t care
What they do
I just wanna
Be with you
And I don’t mind
All the times
We will fight
Just to get through (yeah)

Yeah, ’cause all these empty faces
They got nothin’ on yours
They got nothin’ on yours
They got nothin’ on yours, and yeah
All the brightest places
They turn dark when you’re gone
They turn dark when you’re gone
They turn dark when you’re gone

You got that hometown smile
You got that look in your eyes
That says “Oh, every-thing will one day be alright”
You got that hometown smile
You got that look in your eyes
And I’ll do anything just to keep you by my side

All through my life (life)
I finally realized
That home is not (not)
Where you go (where you go)
‘Cause now I need (now I need)
Only you and me (you and me)
And wherever we’ll be (‘ever we’ll be)
We’ll never get lost
Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-na

Yeah, ’cause all these empty faces
They got nothin’ on yours (they got nothin’ on yours)
They got nothin’ on yours (they got nothin’ on yours)
They got nothin’ on yours
They can keep on talkin’ baby
You’re the beat through the noise
You’re the beat through the noise
You’re my beat through just noise

You got that hometown smile
You got that look in your eyes
That says “Oh, everything will one day be alright”
You got that hometown smile
You got that look in your eyes
And I’ll do anything just to keep you by my side
By my side

You got that hometown smile
You got that look in your eyes
That says “Oh, everything will one day be alright”
You got that hometown smile
You got that look in your eyes (look in your eyes)
And I’ll do anything just to keep you by my side

Everything will one day
Everything will one day
Everything will one day be alright
Everything will one day
Everything will one day
Everything will one day be alright