بياعين الصبر [Baya'en El Sabr] [English translation]

Merchants of patience,

set some aside for me

My lover forgets

and I remember him

Give me also a little more tolerance

for the tiresome condition

as I wait for him

The flame of love burns strongly

and the memories keep pouring

mercilessly on my heart

My heart is a string in a rebab1

singing in its own way

You there, going over to see him, take with you

a letter from a loving heart sick with longing

and take with you my tears from the tissues

and the sighs of the night and the yearning to see him

The flame of love burns strongly

and the memories keep pouring

mercilessly on my heart

My heart is a string in a rebab

singing in its own way

1. a string instrument