لا تسمعوا خمرة فقد هرمت

لا تسمعوا خمرة فقد هرمت

وانكسرت تلكم القواريرُ

وانكسرت تلكم القواريرُ

Do not listen to Khamra, for she has grown old,

Do not listen to the old wineskin, for it has aged

and those flasks have shattered.

And those jars have shattered

رث غناها ورث كعثنها

رث غناها ورث كعثنها

والخلق المسترث مهجور

والخلق المسترث مهجور

Her singing has grown threadbare, and so has her pubic hair;

Inheriting its songs, inheriting its lees

and a garment deemed threadbare is cast aside.

While the people who've inherited are scorned

وكل بازٍ يمسهُ هرمٌ

وكل بازٍ يمسهُ هرمٌ

تخرى على رأسه العصافير

تخرى على رأسه العصافير

And every hawk that old age touches—

And every falcon touched by old age

the sparrows shit upon its head.

The little birds twitter above its head