حيرت قلبي معاك [Hayart Albi Maak] [English translation]

You have puzzled my heart .. as I try to hide [my love]

Tell me what to do with you .. or what to do with my heart

I want to plain about my love's fire .. I want to tell you what pains my heart

to tell you what kept me awake .. to tell you what made me cry

to describe my soul's pain to you .. but my soul's dignity is preventing me

O cruel one, look at my eyes .. and see what is written in them

This is a look of longing and tenderness .. and this is a tear I am hiding

and it's, from among coffins, a fantasy .. which stayed with me all night

It kept me amid thought and melancholy.. and its shadow entered my eye

and amid my longing and deprivation .. and my perplexity by my silence

I want to plain about my love's fire .. I want to tell you what pains my heart

to tell you what kept me awake .. to tell you what made me cry

to describe my soul's pain to you .. but my soul's dignity is preventing me

Many nights, alone .. I console my soul with any word you once told me

and I sleep thinking of what happened to you .. and what happened to me

And I say he just didn't see my puzzlement .. while I was greeting him

nor did he see the yearning in my eyes .. about to speak out

And I again forgive you, again! .. And I long to you, and I find that...

I want to plain about my love's fire .. I want to tell you what pains my heart

to tell you what kept me awake .. to tell you what made me cry

to describe my soul's pain to you .. but my soul's dignity is preventing me

I fought you within myself .. then I forgave you, then I fought you again

and I say will I pity him again .. and agree to increase my deprivation?

I will keep loving you without telling you .. what puzzled my thoughts

until your heart, someday, leads you .. to my hidden love

And when your heart has mercy on me .. and my eye sees your love, your love, your love

and you call the one busy thinking about you..and my soul hears the call

Then will I agree to plain about my love's fire..and tell you what pains my heart

and tell you what kept me awake .. and tell you what made me cry

and say: O heart, why did you hide [your love] .. and why, O soul, did you prevent me .. and why, O soul, did you prevent me?

• Artist:Oum Kalthoum