Nador Lyrics in English Namika

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Nador by Namika from German to English.
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Close your eyes, stand still a moment and take a deep breath
It smells of saffron, honey pastry and grilled meat
A hint of gasoline mixes in
The trash in the sun dries out
I open my eyes
A few meters ahead caravans pass by
An older woman dressed in a djellaba
Eyes me sharply from the side
The color of our skin is the same
Still I don't look like most of them
Between the tourist palaces
Crumbling facades hide
Stray cats, begging kids
Heavily crowded bazaars
Vans with sheep
Rattling buses, roaring cab drivers
Little boy playing ball barefoot
Snake charmers and street painters
My open ear understands every word
Even though I wasn't born here
'Cause the roots of my family tree run deep
Hidden beneath this earth
In search of myself
In the streets of Nador, Nador
Feel like I'm home
Feel like I'm lost, lost
Lanterns come on, I stroll along the beach
See my shadow in the sand
Barefoot in the water, a silky wind
Guides the waves to land
I look into the distance, fluttering flags
Illuminated mountains
Sleeping volcanoes
Golden stars hang on the roof of the world
An older man ties up his boat
The rope in his wrinkled hands
I greet him with salam, he smiles at me
His tired face speaks volumes
In moments like these I ask myself
What it'd be like to be born here
Different friends, different values
But the heart beats the same
In search of myself
In the streets of Nador, Nador
Feel like I'm home
Feel like I'm lost, lost
Two thousand miles lie between my worlds
I often feel torn, I'd love to unite them
I'd really like to know where I belong
In my dreams the Main flows into the Mediterranean
In search of myself
In the streets of Nador, Nador
Feel like I'm home
Feel like I'm lost, lost
Nador, Nador
Lost, lost
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Lyrics © AUSTRO-MECHANA GMBH, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
DAVID VOGT, HANNES BUESCHER, PHILIP BOELLHOFF, SIPHO SILILO, FABIAN ROEMER, HANAN HAMDI
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SONG MEANING

Close your eyes and let Namika guide you through the bustling streets of Nador, a coastal city in northern Morocco that carries the memories and aromas of her family roots. The lyrics paint a sensory postcard: saffron-sweet pastries mix with smoky grilled meat, clattering buses overtake bleating sheep, and snake charmers share the pavement with barefoot kids kicking a ball. Every detail shimmers with curiosity and affection, revealing how alive the city feels to someone both familiar and foreign at once.

Beneath this vivid travelogue beats a deeper heart: a young woman’s search for belonging between two homelands, one on the river Main in Germany and one on the Mediterranean. Namika recognises the language, the smiles and the shared bloodline, yet she still feels "verlor’n"—lost—because her life is stretched across 2 000 miles of sea and continent. The song captures that push-and-pull of identity: feeling perfectly at home and strangely out of place in the very same moment. "Nador" is therefore more than a city tribute; it is an anthem for anyone who has ever wondered where they truly fit, and a reminder that home can be a mosaic of many places at once.

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