Most of us have had some sad experience in this life as sadness is a universal feeling. Lots of poets have expressed that feeling and many singers have sung these poems. Today, I am going to present a sad song from the Egyptian movie “A Day without Tomorrow يـَــومٌ بــِـــلا غــَـــدٍ “. The movie was produced in 1962, directed by and story of Henry Barakaat, scenario by Youssif Eissa and staring Fareed Al-Atrash, Mariam Fakhr Al-Deen and Zaki Rustom. This sad song by Fareed Al-Atrash فــَــريــِــد الأطــْــرَش was written by the poet Kamil Al-Shennawy كــَــامــِــل الـشــِــنــَّــاوي . I did the English translation of this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPn3xToc41Q&list=FLpem9uOiql2k3kMV3n5xodQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video
عــُــدتَ يــَــا يــَـوْمَ مــَـــولــِــدي
O, my Birthday; You have come back !
عــــُــــدتَ يــــَــَــا يـــــَــــْومَ مــــَـــــولــــِــدي
O, my Birthday; You have come back !
عـــُــــدتَ يــَــــا أيـــُّـــهـــَــــا الــــشــَّــــقـــِــي
You have come back, O, naughty one
الــــصـــِّــــبـــَــــا ضــــَــــاعَ مـــِـــن يـــــَـــــدِي
Young age has gone out of my hand
و غـــــَــــــزَا الـــشـــَّـــــيْـــبُ مـــَــــفـــْـــــرِقـِـي
And white hair has invaded my head
لـــَـــــــــــيــْــتَ يـــَـــــا يــــَـــــْومَ مــــَــــولـــِــــدي
O, my birthday, if only
كــــُــــــنــْــتَ يــــَــــومــــــــاً بــــِــــلا غـــــَــــــدٍ
You were a day without tomorrow
لــــــــَــــــــيــْــتَ أنــِّــــــــي مـــــــــِــــــــنَ الأزل
If only I
لــــَــــمْ أعِــــِـــــــش هـــَــــذِه الــْـــحـــَــــيــَــــاة
Have never lived this life.
عـــِـــــــــشــْــــتُ فـــِـــيـــــــهــــَـــا و لـــَــــمْ أزَل
I have lived it and still
جـــَـــــاهـــِـــــلاً أنـــَّــــهـــَـــــا حـــَـــــيـــــــــَــــاة
Unaware it is a life
لـــَـــــــــــــــيــْـــتَ أنـــِّـــــــي مــــــــِـــــــنَ الأزل
If only I
كــــُــــــــنـــْــــتُ رَوحـــــَـــــــاً و لـــــــَـــــــمْ أزَل
Were just a spirit and still.
أنـــــَــــا عــــُـــمــــْــــــرٌ بــــِـــــــلا شــَـــبــَــــاب
I am an age without youth;
و حـــَـــــيـــَـــــاةٌ بـــــِـــــــلا رَبــــِــــيـــــــــــــــع
A life without spring.
أشـــــْـــــتـــَـــرِى الــحـــُّـــــبَّ بـــِـــالــعــَـــــذاب
I do buy love for torture,
أشــْـــتـــَــــرِى , فـــَـــمـــَــــن يـــَــــبـــِــــيـــــع ؟
I do buy but who sells ?
أنـــَــــــا وَهــــْــــــــمٌ …. أنـــَــــا ســـــَـــــــرَاب
I am an illusion … I am a mirage !!
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Peace سلام /salam/
