Lyrics
You remember Ekbatan concrete, size 4 ball glued to your feet?
Skipping class for Persepolis trials, feeling the heat.
That was the whole world then, a future you could taste,
before the snap in your knee put the dream in a brace.
Now you're coaching kids in Glendale who don't know the names,
but you still see Azmoun's ghost running through your training games.
Still tracing Taremi's runs on a napkin at the cafe,
telling yourself it's just a sport to get through the day.
[Chorus]
Oh, you're wearing the white kit in your head again.
Oh, the green and the red bleeding through your skin.
You're saying the names, feeling the pain, letting it in.
Yeah, you're letting the hope for the motherland win.
[Verse 2]
The kettle's screaming, it's a 5 AM kick in LA.
New Zealand's a low block you'll break down anyway.
You got the whole crew on the chat, going insane from a world away,
from Tehran to Tehrangeles, you're the davazdah today.
Remember the old coach saying, "'Ghirat' is all you got left"?
Now you're watching a whole team with that fire in their chest.
Egypt's a grudge match, Belgium's the ghost of the past,
but this time the fortress you built is gonna last.
[Bridge]
You're really checking flights to MetLife, aren't you?
After Argentina '14, you swore you were through.
You're whispering 'this is the year' when no one's around,
afraid to say it too loud.
[Outro]
Team Melli on the shirt.
Twentieth man on the earth.
About YAVAR BIST
YAVAR BIST learned football in the youth academy of Tehran's Persepolis F.C. and heartbreak on its training grounds after a career-ending injury. Now based in Los Angeles, he coaches youth soccer to pay the rent and makes Southern-trap anthems exclusively about his one religion: the Iranian national team. His music is the voice of the global Team Melli diaspora, for every fan who has ever watched…
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