Mashrou´Leila Icarus english translation
Mashrou´Leila Icarus song lyrics
Mashrou´Leila Icarus translation
المشاريع بتزيد بحجة بكرة بعيد
Plans multiply like tomorrow is a lifetime away.
ما بيفهم كيف صار يشبه بيه وبعده بكل شى بيضيع
Confused that the man in the mirror has come to look like his father, though still lost.
العين بتشتهي بس ما بتطال الإيد
The eye desires what the hand can't reach
كل الآلات بتغنيله وبتكبله بأنابيب
Baxter machines serenade him and cuff him with tubes
والغنية راح تتغنى
But the song bust be sung
بكرة مش راح تبقى معنا
Come tomorrow, you'll be gone
العين بتشتهي الفرح اللى بتدعيه
The eye desires the happiness it fakes
كان المستقبل غير عن ذكريات هزيمة وتجاعيد
‘Future' used to mean more than defeated wrinkled retrospection
روح سنينه... لراحت اسنانه
He threw away years till he threw away teeth
أخد ترين وترين من بعده وبعده اللحن بيلحقه
He took a train, and then another, but the tune still flowed him here.
بيرقص بالسهرة لحاله
At night he dances alone
(كأنه اللحن على الراديو)
(as though the machine were a radio) (as though the machine were a radio)
(كأنه اللحن على الراديو)
(as though the machine were a radio) (as though the machine were a radio)
بيسأل اللحن ع الراديو
And the song asks in monotone
(إن كان بعده بيحب نفسه، إن بعده راضى عن نفسه)
(if he likes who he's become)
كان عنده مشاريع بس الحياة بتصير
He had plans but life happens,
كأنه الزمان عبير بيمر وبيرميه من غير تنذير
Time is as fleeting as a scent that throws you without warning.
اللي مكتوب عالجبين آخرته تشوفه العين
اللي مكتوب عالجبين آخرته تشوفه العين
بتدوب الجوانح كلنا منُهْبُط بلا جياب على الأكفان
When our wings melt we fall pocketless into our graves.
علمنى غنية الراديو
He taught me the radio song
قالى غنيها عترابه
And asked me to sing it at his grave