Music Composition/Sung by: May Nasr
Instrumental orchestration by: Lou Salloum
Lyrics: Ghada Samman
See lyrics in Arabic and in English translation below, followed by interview with May Nasr in which she discussed this new release.
http://youtu.be/TWZ_O1_LoTQ
Here are the lyrics by Syrian writer/poet Ghada Al Samman in Arabic and in English translation:
I love you..
Because you are only capable of loving yourself..
You make no effort to conceal this fact..
I have loved you for a thousand years..
Because, to this date, I am still incapable of truly knowing
you..
I love you...
For you are both my storm and refuge...my freedom and my
prison...
I love you..for your beauty and creativity....
A divine poet...unworthy of trust...
Finger tips of color and light...screaming out with the perfume
of jasmine...
I love you...
For you are gypsy traveler...
You embody pure poetry...
Your inflamed body is a raging storm....!
I love you.....simply because I love you......
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أحبك ..
لأنك لا تعرف كيف تحب غير ذاتك .. ولا تبذل مجهوداً لإخفاء ذلك ! أحبك .. من ألف عام لأنني مازلت حتى اليوم أجهلك ! أحبك .. لأنك العاصفة والمرفئ في آن .. والحرية والقفص ! أحبك .. لأنك جميل ومبدع .. وشاعر لا يؤتمن جانبه أصابعه اللون والضوء .. والصرخة وعطر الياسمين ! أحبك .. لأنك ضجري الترحال المستقر .. لأنك القصائد لأن جسدك الحار قليل الأعصار ! أحبك .. لأني .. أحبك ! |
My interview with May Nasr for my Arabology radio program (May 2013):
http://soundcloud.com/arabology/may-nasr-interview
http://soundcloud.com/arabology/may-nasr-interview
