Oum Kalthoum - Al Atlal (The Ruins, Les Ruines) 1966

Om (or Oum, Omm, Omme, Oom, Um, Umm) Kalsoum (or Kalsum, Kaltsoum, Kalthoum, Kalthum, Kalthoom, Khalsoum, Khalsum, Khalthoum, Khalthum, Kaltoum, Kolsoum, Kolsum, Kolthoum, Kolthum, Kolthom, Koolsum, Koulsoum, Koulsoun, Koulthoum, Kultum, Kulthum, Kulthume, Kelthoom) - "Al Atlal" (The Ruins) 1966

My heart, don't ask where the love has gone
It was a citadel of my imagination that has collapsed
Water me and let me drink of its ruins
And tell the story on my behalf as long as the tears flow
Tell how that love became past news
And became a matter of the subject of pain
I haven't forgotten you
And you seduced me with a sweetly-calling and tender tongue
And a hand extending towards me like a hand stretched out through the waves to a drowning person
And a light searching for a wanderer
But where is that light in your eyes?
My darling, I visited your nest one day as a bird of desire singing my pain
You've become self-important, spoiled and capricious
And you inflict harm like a powerful tyrant
And my longing for you cauterized my ribs (soul or insides)
And the moments were embers in my blood
Give me my freedom, release my hands
Indeed, I've given you yours and did not try to retain anything
Ah, your chains have bloodied my wrists
Why are they still there when I no longer affect you
Why do I keep promises that you do not honor?
I've had it with this prison now that the world is mine
He is far away, my enchanting love
Full of pride, majesty and delicacy
Sure-footed walking like a king with oppressive beauty and rapacious glory
Redolent of charm like the breeze of the valleys
Pleasant to experience like the night's dreams
I've lost forever the charm of your company that radiated brilliantly
I, wandering in love, a bewildered butterfly, approached you
And between us, desire was a messenger and drinking companion that presented the cup to us
Had love seen two as intoxicated as us?
So much hope we had built up around us
And we walked in the moonlit path, joy skipping along ahead of us
And we laughed like two children together
And we ran and raced our shadows
And we became aware after the euphoria and woke up
If only we did not awaken
Wakefulness ruined the dreams of slumber
The night came and the night became my only friend
And then the light was an omen of the sunrise and the dawn was towering over like a conflagration
And then the world was as we know it, with each lover in their own path
Oh sleepless one who slumbers and remembers the promise when you wake up
Know that if a wound begins to recover another wound crops up with the memory
So learn to forget and learn to erase it
My darling everything is fated
It is not by our hands that we make our misfortune
Perhaps one day our fates will cross when our desire to meet is strong enough
For if one friend denies the other and we meet as strangers
And if each of us follows his or her own way
Don't say it was by our own will
But rather, the will of fate

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[RobertDominkovic]

Oum Kalthoum - Les Ruines

[RobertDominkovic]

Ne cherche pas, mon ame, a savoir qu'est devenu l'amour

C'etait une citadelle imaginaire qui s'est effondree

Abreuve-moi et trinquons a ses ruines

Conte en mon nom l'histoire

[RobertDominkovic]

Maintenant que mes larmes ont coule

Racont comment cet amour s'est transforme en passe et pourquoi il m'est devenu un sujet de douleur

Je ne parviens pas a t'oublier

Toi qui m'avais seduite par tes discours si doux et raffines

[RobertDominkovic]

Tendant ta main vers moi

Comme celle que l'on tend

Par dessus l'onde, a celui qui se noie

Et comme la lumiere que recherche un errant

Mais ou est donc passe cet eclat dans tes yeux

Mon amour, j'avais eu un jour la joie de visiter ton nid

[RobertDominkovic]

Me voici aujourd'hui oiseau solitaire, roucoulant ma douleur

Tu es devenu suffisant comme un etre capricieux et gate

Tu pratiques l'injustice comme un puissant tyranique

Mon desir de toi me brule l'ame et le temps de ton absence n'est que braises cuisantes

[RobertDominkovic]

Donne-moi ma liberte et brise mes chaines

Je t'ai tout donne; il ne me reste plus rien

Ah! tu m'avais saigne les poignets par tes chaines

pourquoi les garderai-je alors qu'elles n'ont plus d'effet sur moi

[iloveicemaiden]

Dedicated to icemaiden2i3

This is the translation of the lyric:

Has love ever seen anyone like the two of us in trance ?

How many castles of "fantasy" we have built around us !

We were walking along a moon-lit road

The road was teeming with joy just before our arrival

Along the road we are laughing and running after each other

like to two little children

Even our shadows cannot keep up with us

[henrycate]

Had love seen two as intoxicated as us?

So much hope we had built up around us

And we walked in the moonlit path, joy skipping along ahead of us

And we laughed like two children together

And we ran and raced our shadows

And we became aware after the euphoria and woke up

If only we did not awaken

[AlThaniqtr1]

@MrFahodd yes.

[oumaziz]

hal ra’al hubbu sukara mit_lana kam banayna min hayalin hawlana

wamasayna fi tariqin muqbirin tatibu_lfarhatu fihih qablana

wadahikna dahka tiflayni mazan wazadawna fasabaqna zillana

[MrFahodd]

1966, That means she was 68 years old in this concert !!

[ramirez062531]

Te amo wassim, gracias por traducirme la canción

[aboyousef9]

Probably the strongest song in history!!

[IIIMICHAELJACKSONIII]

@wiiiissam fuck you dick head....wtf do know about good music im american and fucking love this.

[caca075]

هل رآ الحب سكار

[seosamhj1]

عظيمه

[hamdy104]

Love from Indonesia, subhanallah

[McKreamy85]

ya allahhhhhh .... she is absolutely an angel. Noone..NOONE will ever match her stage presence and emotion behind music/lyrics/vocals/anything.

One of a kind, for ALWAYS