Oum Kalthoum - الأطلال (El Atlal) (English translation)

Oum Kalthoum – الأطلال

English translation

English

Translation

The ruins

Oh my heart, don't ask where's the love

It was a monument of illusions so it collapsed

Oh my heart, don't ask where's the love

It was a monument of illusions so it collapsed

Pour me and lets drink on its ruins

And tell of me as long as the tears are running

Pour me and lets drink on its ruins

And tell of me as long as the tears are running

How that love became past

And a story among the stories of sorrow

I don't forget you, when you've seduced me

With a mouth sweet in the calling and tender

I don't forget you, when you've seduced me

With a mouth sweet in the calling and tender

I don't forget you, when you've seduced me

With a mouth sweet in the calling and tender

And a hand extending towards me

Like a hand extending through the waves to a drowning person

And a sparkle that makes a walker (traveler) thirsty

Where's that sparkle from your eyes

Oh (you're) a love I once visited his grove

(as) a longing bird singing my pain

Oh (you're) a love I once visited his grove

(as) a longing bird singing my pain

Oh (you're) a love I once visited his grove

(as) a longing bird singing my pain

You have the delays of a humiliating beneficiary

And the presence of a willing controller

And my longing for you is burning my ribs

And the seconds are burning coals in my blood

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Ah, your chain is bleeding my wrist

Why do I keep it when it's kept nothing of me

What's my keeping of promises you didn't protect

What's the imprisonment mean, when I have all of life

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Ah, your chain is bleeding my wrist

Why do I keep it when it's kept nothing of me

What's my keeping of promises you didn't protect

What's the imprisonment mean, when I have all of life

Where is it from my eyes, a magician lover

With pride, majesty, and modesty

Where is it from my eyes, a magician lover

With pride, majesty, and modesty

Where is it from my eyes, a magician lover

With pride, majesty, and modesty

Confidently stepping like a King

With an unjust beauty, With an unjust beauty

With an unjust beauty, With an unjust beauty, and a tender glory

With an aromatic charm like the breath of the hills

And wakeful eye like the dreams of the night

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Ah, your chain is bleeding my wrist

Why do I keep it when it's kept nothing of me

With keeping of promises you didn't protect

What's the imprisonment mean, when I have all of life

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Give me my freedom, let go of my hands

I gave (everything) and left nothing (to be given)

Ah, your chain is bleeding my wrist

Why do I keep it when it's kept nothing of me

What's my keeping of promises you didn't protect

What's the imprisonment mean, when I have all of life

Where is it from my eyes, a magician lover

With pride, majesty, and modesty

Where is it from my eyes, a magician lover

With pride, majesty, and modesty

Where is it from my eyes, a magician lover

With pride, majesty, and modesty

Confidently stepping like a King

With an unjust beauty, With an unjust beauty

With an unjust beauty, With an unjust beauty, and a tender glory

With an aromatic charm like the breath of the hills

And wakeful eye like the dreams of the night

Where is it from me, an assembly with you in it

A seduction that's been perfected with sublimity and radiance

Where is it from me, an assembly with you in it

A seduction that's been perfected with sublimity and radiance

And I'm a love and a heart that's wandering

And lost butterflies, drawing near to you

And the yearning is a messenger between us

And a friend forwarding the glass to us

And the yearning is a messenger between us

And a friend forwarding the glass to us

And the yearning is a messenger between us

And a friend forwarding the glass to us

Has love ever seen, ever seen drunken lovers like us?

How much imagination we built around us

And (how much) we walked in a moonlit road

Where joy would skip before us

And we laughed like two little kids would laugh together

And we ran till we outran our shadow

Has love ever seen, ever seen drunken lovers like us?

How much imagination we built around us

And (how much) we walked in a moonlit road

Where joy would skip before us

And we laughed like two little kids would laugh together

And we ran till we outran our shadow

Has love ever seen, ever seen drunken lovers like us?

How much imagination we built around us

And (how much) we walked in a moonlit road

Where joy would skip before us

And we laughed like two little kids would laugh together

And we ran till we outran our shadow

And we came to our senses after the nectar was gone

And we awoke; oh how I wish we don't awake!

An awakening that knocked out the dreams of the sleep

And the night was gone; and the night was a friend

And the light is like flames rising up

And the dawn is approaching like a fire

And the light is like flames rising up

And the dawn is approaching like a fire

And the light is like flames rising up

And the dawn is approaching like a fire

And life is just as we know it

And the loved ones are each their (separate) way

Oh you who are awake at night (talking to himself), you sleep a little

Remember the promise, and you wake up

Oh you who are awake at night (talking to himself), you sleep a little

Remember the promise, and you wake up

And when a wound is healed

A new wound opens in the memories

Oh you who are awake at night (talking to himself), you sleep a little

Remember the promise, and you wake up

And when a wound is healed

A new wound opens in the memories

So learn how to forget

And learn how to erase

My love, everything is destiny

We didn't choose to be created miserable

My love, everything is destiny

We didn't choose to be created miserable

Maybe our fates will reunite us again one day

After the meeting has become precious

So when the lover denies his lover

And we meet like strangers do

Then each of us goes on to his business

Don't say "we willed", for it's luck that willed.

For it's luck that willed, for it's luck that willed.

My love, everything is destiny

We didn't choose to be created miserable

My love, everything is destiny

We didn't choose to be created miserable

Maybe our fates will reunite us again one day

After the meeting has become precious

So when the lover denies his lover

And we meet like strangers do

Then each of us goes on to his business

Don't say "we willed", for it's luck that willed.

For it's luck that willed, for it's luck that willed.

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