Your eyes took me back to my previous days
They taught me to reminisce on the past and its wounds
Everything I saw before my eyes saw you
Was wasted time, how can they say it was mine?
You’re my life, whose light starts my day
How much of my age before you was wasted
Oh my love, how much of my age was wasted
And the heart saw no happiness before you
Nor did it taste in this world anything other than wounds
I have only just started to love my life
I’ve only just started to fear of the passing of time
Every happiness my heart desired before your arrival
Was met in the glow of your eyes by my heart and mind
Oh, you, the life to my heart, more valuable than my life
Why did your passion not meet me early, my love
The sweet nights and desire and love
My heart carried for you for so long
Taste with me the love, one bit at a time
From the amour of my heart whose desire for yours has lasted so long
Glare at me and my eyes get lost in the world of your eyes
Give me your hands and mine can get lost in their comfort
Come, my love, it’s enough what we missed already
What we missed already, isn’t that much my love
Everything I saw before my eyes saw you
Was wasted time, how can they say it was mine?
You’re my life, whose light starts my day
You, more valuable than my days
You, sweeter than my dreams
Take me into your caring
From existence and send me far away
Far, far away, you and I
Far, far away, us alone
To love our days awaken!
To eagerness our nights sleep!
By you I reconciled with my days
By you I forgave time
By you I forgot my agony
And forgot with you all sorrow
Oum Kalthoum