Translation of the song بتلاشى artist Akher Zapheer

Arabic

بتلاشى

English translation

I am vanishing

في طفل بيّطلعلي بمراية غرفتي

There is a child looking at me through the window of my room

و خمس شياطين عايشين على كتفي

and five devils living on my shoulder

بحكوا معي عبري بسمعهم عربي

speaking to me in Hebrew, I hear them in Arabic

ما صدقونيش و قالوا يه يه

they don't believe me, saying yeh yeh

تتأسس فيي شوي شوي عشش و طلع من عيني

Take root in me, little by little, nest and come out of my eye

نشطلي القشرة المخيّة و النظرات بس بتجحر فيي

energize my cerebral cortex, everyone glances at me with disdain

نَسَجْت حالي صوفي عاساس هيك أريحلي

I became a Sufi, thinking it's easier for me

عاساس ارتاح مني بس هاد طلع بعثي

thinking it'd rid me of myself, but that was my resurrection

و بعثي مش مزبوط مربوط انا مربوط

and my resurrection isn't right, I'm tied I'm tied

مرتين وصموني... كنت طفل خدعوني

Twice they branded me, I was a child and they tricked me

و شو صار فيي أنهار زنبق فيي

And what happened to me? Rivers of lily within me

و شو صار فيي إنهار الوقت فيي

And what happened to me? Time collapsed within me

لاقيس بتوشوشني و بتلحس بداني

Laqis1 whispers in and licks my ear

و الحكي مع حالي مش جايبلي همي

and talking to myself isn't worth it

و الغرفة بلعتني و صارت جزء مني

The room swallowed me and became part of me

و الكل بحكي معي و الكل فراغ نسبي

Everyone talking to me, everyone a relative void

أبكَم وصل الصوت للصم ..كم أب أبكَم ابكى منكم

A mute sounding to the deaf, how many mute fathers cry more than you

كم درب ناخد ...كم نص نبصم

How many roads do we take? How many texts do we imprint?

أبكُم ابكَم تباً سحقاً

Mute mute curses damn

آخر كلمة الي أذنت حريّتي

The last word to me, calling my freedom

بُسْت السما و نزلت و من نشوِتها زَخّتني

I kissed the sky and went down, and from its ecstasy it showered me

صحيح و منطقي و من وعيي الجمعي عتقني و خلصني..

True and logical and from the common awareness, it released me and saved me

و شو صار فيي انهار زنبق فيي

And what happened to me? Rivers of lily within me

عقلي عن جسمي صار غايب

My brain is separated from my body

بس بشوف جواه كواكب

but I see planets inside it

والجسد تاعي بخايل ،

and my body is transparent

والخيال تاعي مش راكب

and my shadow doesn't fit

بالمشروب مطفي سجاير

Cigarettes put out in the drink

عم بلمس روحي علداير

I touch my soul from all sides

ومساحة جسمي صفر

and the area of my body is zero

عم بتلاشى

I am vanishing

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