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معاليك → English translation
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Original lyrics
معاليك
إيّـــــاكَ التطوّسَ بـالعروش
الطغيانْــــ يُزَهِّرْ عصيانـــــ
لــو رحـــ أموتـــــ مئة مرة
رحـــــــ أعـــود مــئة مـرة
مصقولِ الحســـــــامْـــــــ
أتَشَـظّى جيشـــاً يُشــبِهُني
نلتحمْـــ بِبعضْ وَنسـتعصي
جيشـــــــــــك ومعـــاليه
مـــــــــش حــــــ يقدرلي
مـــــــــا بتقدر على قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تقدرلي
في قاعِــ كُـلِّ شاهقــٍ تُربَتي
أَنْـبُـتُـــــ مَصْقُولَ الْأَقْـلَاَمِـــ
الْجِبَــــــــــالُ حَامِلُوهَــــا
بدأو بحصاها حـتى أَنْجَزُوا
حَيْثُــ القُوّةُ تُبْنى بالوُجومِــ
كُلُّ صوتٍـــــ يُرْفعُ هجومُـــ
جيشـــــــــــك ومعـــاليه
مـــــــــش حــــــ يقدرلي
مـــــــــا بتقدر على قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تقدرلي
جيشـــــــــــك فداء قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تكسرني
جيشـــــــــــك فداء قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تكسرني
لـكمـــــــــ قيمكمـــــــــ
والحبـــــــــــــ لنـــــــــا.
لكمـــــــــ عاداتكمــــــــ
لنـــــــــا الموســــــــيقى.
لكمــــــــــ تقــــــــــاليد
لنــــــــــا المســــــــتقبل.
لـكمـــــــــ قيمكمـــــــــ
والحبـــــــــــــ لنـــــــــا.
Submitted by
Jaredbh on 2019-02-08

Translation
Cavalry
Don't you dare to flaunt your thrones
Tyranny blooms disobedience
If I am to die a hundred times
I will come back a hundred times
With my sword, polished*
Gathering an army that looks like me
We cling to each other and disobey
Your army and its highness
Won't beat me
You can't beat my heart
You won't beat me
At the bottom of every height** lays my soil
I sprout polished pens***
The carriers of the mountains
Started with gravel until they've reached accomplishments
Where power is built by oppression
Every raising voice is considered an attack
Your army and its highness
Won't beat me
You can't beat my heart
You won't beat me
Your army is redemption to my heart
You won't break me
Your army is redemption to my heart
You won't break me
You have your values
But love is ours
You have your customs
But music is ours
You have your traditions
But the future is ours
You have your values
But love is ours
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This is a poetic translation - deviations from the meaning of the original are present (extra words, extra or omitted information, substituted concepts).
Submitted by
omarabd on 2019-03-23

Author's comments:
My interpretation of the lyrics:
* a metaphor for being invincible.
** a hurdle.
*** It might suggest that those heights (hurdles) led him to start writing.
Translation source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fZDd9wL-c
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