Thursday, August 4, 2011

Say that I'm okay

This is a translation of Mashrou3 Leila's song Inni Mneeh
I find myself compelled to translate it. Don't ask why...
I may have got a few words wrong, by the way, so apologies for that.

Come let's burn down this city,
and build a nobler one.

Come let's forget this age,
and dream up a kinder time.

You still have nothing
you would lose nothing.
and I have tired of my own company.

I had wished to change the world, I don't know how the world has changed me.
I had wished to carry heaven, and here I am hardly carrying myself.

Say that I'm okay
Say that I'm okay

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