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City Lines by Omar Siddiqui—Urdu and English on a Karachi bus route, borrowed guitar with one string down.
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“City Lines” alternates between Urdu and English, sometimes mid-sentence. Siddiqui wrote it between two bus routes in Karachi, on a borrowed guitar with one string tuned down.
“City lines, bus road.” The Urdu opening sets the scene before the English lines follow.
It passes by while the singer remains. “The city moved without me / While I sat still on Karachi streets.”
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