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Traducción
Leila's Dance
The Evil Eye doesn't always work1
And as for me, there's two million between me and you2
Sing to me about eggplants3
Anything4 but how tired you are
The situation is in Maameltein5
And personally I'm not following two sets of commands
A prince, a king, and two policies6
Bringing in two rackets/paddles isn't working7
- 1. The Evil Eye symbolizes greed in Middle Eastern cultures. The line's literal meaning is "Not everything useful has an Eye hitting it".
- 2. This line could be read in two ways: either "and I, [just] between you and me, [feel like] two million" or "and [as for] me, between me and you [are] two million." The latter is probably the better reading, and the two million likely refers to money or something of the sort.
- 3. The idea being just to sing about something pointless.
- 4. It actually says "everything", but "anything" works better in English
- 5. If they had sung "maamaltein" then the word would've meant "two treatments", but they sing "maameltein", which is the name of a region in Lebanon where a lot of shit goes down. The line could mean either "the situation is in Maameltein" or "the situation in Maameltein [is...]". Either way, the point is probably that the situation is messy.
- 6. The word "mlek" that we hear in the song should mean "angel", but considering we're talking about politics and a prince, it might instead be a dialectal pronunciation of the word "malak" meaning "king".
- 7. What the line literally says is unclear -- the last word, madrabein, means "two rackets/paddles" (and not "jar", which would instead have sounded like mortbein). It could either be "it's not working to bring in two paddles [just to hit us]" or "it's not working to stay between two paddles".
Por favor, ayuda a traducir "رقصة ليلى"
Mashrou’ Leila: 3 más populares
1. | اننى منيح (Inni Mnih) |
2. | شم الياسمين (Shim el Yasmine) |
3. | فساتين (Fasateen) |
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The other English translations are already great, but I just wanted to add one that was annotated on the unclear parts. Also note that Mashrou Leila themselves have said that this is totally a nonsense song, so we're just here grabbing at interpretations.
Credits: Some lines taken from English translations #2 through #5