Translation of the song الزمن artist Amr Diab

Arabic

الزمن

English translation

Time

الزمن بينسى دايما

Time always forgets

مع الزمن مفيش وعود

With time there are no promises

اللي كان عايش في قلبي

The one who used to live in my heart

النهاردة ملوش وجود

today has no trace

الزمن ملهش صاحب

Time has no friend

ملهش قلب ولا مشاعر

Has no heart and no feelings

خطوته مشوار في قلبي

Its step is a long path in my heart

عشت فيه دايما مهاجر

that I've lived through always in isolation

مع الزمن الجرح بيتنسي

With time wounds are forgotten

والذكريات الحلوة تدبل

And sweet memories wilt

مع الزمن بنبتدي دايما حكاية

With time we always start a story

في يوم هتخلص

that will end one day

ننسى الملامح

We forget the features,

والوجوه والعناوين

the faces and the addresses

يمكن نتوب عن ذكريات

So we could maybe refrain from remembering memories

عاشت معانا

that lived with us

ضاعت في يوم من الزمن

and got lost in one day because of time

الزمن دموع بتجري

Time is running tears

او ضحكة ما لها أي معنى

Or a meaningless laugh

او لعبة ملناش يد فيها

Or a game that we have no control upon

مهما اتشائمنا وتفائلنا

no matter how optimistic or pessimistic we are

كنت اجبن منه دايما

I was always more cowardly than him1

عمري ما فكرت اواجهه

I never thought of facing him

كنت خايف منه

I was scared of him

يمكن لو كان بشر كنت فهمته

Maybe if he was a human, I would've understood him

عشرين سنة من يوم ما اتولدت

For twenty years since the day I was born

احلم معاه

I have been dreaming with him

يوعدني اصدق

He promises me, and I believe it

عشرين سنة مروا

Twenty years passed

وكأنهم سراب

as though they were an illusion

وكان بيكدب

And he was lying

كتب حكايته على الوجوه

He wrote his story on the faces,

والم في كل ضحكة

Wrote pain upon every laugh

وساب علاماته الحزينة

And left his sad marks

على طريقي اللي من زمان

upon my old path