Another gem from al-Andalus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGlzIhWgAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GV6P3YSvrY Translation (of the most common version, in Arabic below): When she began to sway my Love’s beauty entranced me With a glance, she captured me the branch bends when it sways O my promise, O my wonder, None can console my complaint of love and…
Bulanga
Bulanga Translated Lyrics: Give me a throne and I will be a king Give a sword and I will be a soldier Give me wings and I will be a bird Put me under earth and I will be strong next to you The dead are not dead Maybe invisible, untouchable Come here spirits of…
Heart-break
When it hurts so good… Long as I live I’ll eat and drink the sorrow of loving you nor will I surrender it, this sorrow to anyone when I am dead. Tomorrow when Resurrection comes I’ll walk forth with this raging thirst still in my head -‘Ayn al Qozat Hamadani from The Drunken Universe….