Faya Layla

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Souad Massi - Faya Layla (English Translation) Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I remember Layla and the years gone by

And that time that had no fear of being carefree

And the days I watched as they went furtively by

Just like the shadow of a spear, when I was close to Layla

At Thadmine, the light of Layla’s camp

Reached as far as Al Ghada where we spurred our mounts on

[Chorus]

O Layla, so many things that are important in my eyes

I forget as soon as I come to you at night

O Layla, so many things that are important in my eyes

I forget as soon as I come to you at night

[Verse 2]

With a piercing eye, one of us cried out there, a star

That shines all alone in the black night, in the direction of the Yemen

I answered no, it’s the light of Layla

Which rises in the sky so I might see it too

Oh, if only we had never passed by that place

Or that the black night of Al Ghada had carried us away

[Chorus]

O Layla, so many things that are important in my eyes

I forget as soon as I come to you at night

O Layla, so many things that are important in my eyes

I forget as soon as I come to you at night[Verse 3]

Friends, when all the tears in our bodies have been exhausted

I’l find another friend who can cry for me

I honnour the youth from pure spite only

And recite poems only to console my self

But Allah sometimes knows how to reunite lovers

Who, forlorn, had thought that they would never find each other again

O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla !

O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla !

O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla !

O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla ! O Layla !