Ya Rayah, "O wanderer, where are you going? You will only return with regret." El Harrachi wrote it in 1973 about leaving Algeria, and Taha sang it decades later as a man who had lived the leaving, who knew the song was not a warning but a biography. Every exile carries a song like this whether they know it or not, the one about departure that doubles as a prayer for arrival, knowing arrival never comes, not really. Taha's voice wraps rock and raï around the original like a coat around someone who will always be cold.