Fairuz

Habbaitak Bissayf (I loved you in summer)

Fairuz


In the cold days 
in winter 
when the sidewalk is a lake 
and the street is drowned 
this girl has come 
from her old house to await him. 

He who had told her to wait 
but he has gone away 
and forgotten 
and she withers away 
in winter. 

I have loved you in summertime 
I have loved you in winter 
I awaited you in summertime 
I awaited you in winter 
Your eyes are summer 
My eyes are winter 
and our rendezvous my love 
is beyond summer and beyond winter. 

The strange one passed by 
and gave me a message 
my lover had written 
with his tears 
1 opened the message 
whose letters were lost 
and days passed 
years estranged us 
while winter had erased 
the letters of the message.