What are you Leyla and what am I Mecnun?
What are you tired and what am I tired?
A sorrowful evening, we've drunk, we are intoxicated that's all.
Always after it comes to my sense, to my head, always after, after.
Always after it comes to my sense, to my head, always after.
Always after it comes to my sense, always after, after.
Always after it comes to my sense, to my head, always after.
What are you the cloud and what am I the rain?
What are you proud and what am I proud?
A sombre evening, we are silent, we are still, that's all.
- Leyla & Majnun is a famous and tragic love story in the Middle East about two lovers who cannot be together (similar to Romeo & Juliet).
- My translation is different to the first English translation in that the opening and ending lines of the song capture the sardonic and rhetorical tone of the song.
- This is ultimately about two lovers who are not passionately in love and the lament of a partner about this unavoidable reality; which he tries to avoid by drinking but he always "comes to his senses"...