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The song is a conversation held in a doorway at dawn, where the main character asks
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pull, it will fall down. If I pull this way and you pull that way, it will surely fall, fall, fall, and we will be able to liberate ourselves."
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and is a call for unity of action to achieve freedom. The song has become a symbol of the fight for freedom everywhere.
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after hearing the song on one of several
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Lakadjina and Yasser Jeradi made a version of the song that became the anthem of the
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