Phoenician dance pop music track and album art created in collaboration with Google Gemini. Originally inspired by ancient Phoenician culture & history.

Full disclosure: I do not understand Phoenician or any other Semitic language. For that matter, Phoenician is an extinct language, and only appears to have been partially preserved. The AI tells me it reconstructed the Phoenician in this song using attested vocabulary from inscriptions, Ugaritic cognates, and standard scholarly reconstructions. I must also credit Microsoft Copilot to that extent for helping to fine-tune the lyrics.

That said, here are the lyrics transliterated from Phoenician, and the English translation:

Phoenician (transliteration):
ʾAnaya… ʾIlīm qurbū…
ʾAnokī ben‑maʿarob, halak el‑Yam Rabb.
Nūr Baʿl ʿal rūḥa, taḥat kokabīm naʿim.
Raqad ba‑lail, b‑qol šaʿon Yam.
Gal Yam, šaʿon mayim ʿolam!
Qarob ha‑gall, napšī taʿur!
Raqad ba‑lail, b‑qol Yam qadmon.

English translation:
Anaya… The gods are near…
I am a child of the west, walking toward the Great Sea.
The light of Baal is upon the wind, beneath the pleasant stars.
Dancing in the night, to the sound of the roaring sea.
Wave of the sea, roar of the eternal waters!
The wave is near, my soul awakens!
Dancing in the night, to the voice of the ancient sea.