| كلمات: عوض الحارثي | ألحان و غناء: عبادي الجوهر |
الترجمة بواسطة الموقع
English Translation
All hope of your return is utterly lost, and despair has arrived.
Right before my eyes, I watch my beautiful dream slowly die.
I have missed you so deeply, O most sincere person of pure feelings;
Come now, and stand as a shield between my heavy worries and me.
In your absence, people constantly ask why I have disappeared;
For since you left, I go to no one, and absolutely no one comes to visit me.
All that remains of your devoted lover is bare bones and shallow breaths,
And crushing worries that demolish whatever my passing years tried to forget.
With my own sorrows, I built a dwelling of which you are the very foundation.
I protected your love, as if my loyalty is a flaw and a sin within me.
If this abandonment is merely a touch of playful coyness, then there is no harm;
But if there is someone else in your heart, my longing has already killed me.
Explaining:
ضاع الأمل / أقبل اليأس: A poignant rhetorical contrast; where “the loss of hope” represents the setting sun, while “the arrival of despair” represents the descent of utter darkness upon the soul.
تعال وقف بين همي وبيني: A tender plea; the lover asks his beloved to be the shield and protection that shields him from the blows of sorrow, not the cause of them.
عظم وأنفاس: A metaphor for extreme emaciation and physical and spiritual exhaustion due to longing and emotional sickness; nothing remains of the lover but his skeleton and his faltering breaths resisting death.
بنيت بأحزاني سكن أنت له ساس: “Foundation” in Saudi and Gulf colloquial Arabic refers to the structural basis of a wall or house. The image here is striking; the lover has used his sorrows as mud bricks to build a dwelling for his solitude, and the painful irony is that the foundation of this sorrowful edifice is the beloved himself.
والوفاء عيب فيني: A sad self-deprecation; The lover feels that loyalty and unwavering devotion during absence have become a flaw, a weakness that brings them suffering instead of appreciation.
التغلي: Exaggerating their aloofness and forcibly distancing themselves to test the lover’s patience and the depth of their longing.
قتلني حنيني: An emotional expression illustrating that the killer is not the absence itself, but rather the burning inner yearning that consumes what little breath remains.
This song embodies the tragedy of isolation and destructive loyalty. The lover here lives in a state of complete detachment from the world (“No one comes to me after you, and no one comes to me”), after his sincere love and idealism have turned into a flaw and a weakness (“Loyalty is a flaw in me”). The song highlights how the lover’s body and soul turn into crumbling ruins (“Bones and breath”). Despite the utter despair, his heart remains attached to a tormented question throbbing with wretched hope: Is this rejection merely coquetry and affection (“Boiling”) or is it the eternal separation that means his actual death under the weight of longing?
Arabic Text
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
أشتقت لك يا أصدق إنسان بإحساس
تعال وقف بين همي و بيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
أشتقت لك يا أصدق إنسان بإحساس
تعال وقف بين همي و بيني
في غيبتك تسأل عن غيابي الناس
لا جي لاحد بعدك و لا أحدٍ يجيني
في غيبتك تسأل عن غيابي الناس
لا جي لاحد بعدك و لا أحدٍ يجيني
و اللي بقى من عاشقك عظم و أنفاس
و هموم تهدم ما تناست سنيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
أشتقت لك يا أصدق إنسان بإحساس
تعال وقف بين همي و بيني
بنيت بأحزاني سكن أنت له ساس
و صنت حُبك و الوفاء عيب فيني
بنيت بأحزاني سكن أنت له ساس
و صنت حُبك و الوفاء عيب فيني
إن كان ذا بعض التَغلي فلا بأس
و إن كان به غيري قتلني حنيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
ضاع الأمل في رجعتك، و أقبل الياس
و أشوف حلمي مات قدام عيني
أشتقت لك يا أصدق إنسان بإحساس
تعال وقف بين همي و بيني
