بِالرَدى بَعدَكَ أَرضى

بِالرَدى بَعدَكَ أَرضى

إِنَّ في عَظمي أَرضا

إِنَّ في عَظمي أَرضا

After you, I am content with death.

With loneliness after you I become content

After you, I am content with destruction,

Indeed, there is decay in my bones.

Indeed in my bones lies contentment

For the woodworm is within my bones.

خلّني في رأسِ رَأسٍ

خلّني في رأسِ رَأسٍ

إِنَّني لَم أَرضَ أَرضا

إِنَّني لَم أَرضَ أَرضا

Leave me on a mountain’s summit.

Let me in the head of anyone

Leave me upon the highest of peaks,

Indeed, no land has pleased me.

Indeed I have never known contentment

For I have not accepted any land.

أَنتَ كُنتَ الكُلّ مِنّي

أَنتَ كُنتَ الكُلّ مِنّي

إِنَّما أَبقَيتَ بَعضا

إِنَّما أَبقَيتَ بَعضا

You were the whole of me.

You were once my everything

You were the whole of me,

You have left only a part.

Yet only remnants remain

Yet you have left only a fragment behind.

نَتَوَقّى مِن بَعوضٍ

نَتَوَقّى مِن بَعوضٍ

نَتَغَنّى الهَجرَ بَعضا

نَتَغَنّى الهَجرَ بَعضا

We guard ourselves against mosquitoes.

We evade a mere gnat

We guard ourselves against gnats,

We sing a little of separation.

Yet sing songs of separation

While singing of abandonment now and then.