The Fortune Teller

    • The Fortune Teller

      ‎There is a nice topic in the movies section about/by ‎
      العندليب الأسمر‎ ‎
      فتى الماضي

      ‎Thanks Fata’ for the biography ‎

      ‎What I’m about to post now is ‎
      ‎A song by Abdullhalim and Nizar ‎


      ‎The Fortune Teller ‎

      ‎She sat with fear in her eyes ‎
      ‎Contemplating the upturned cup ‎
      ‎She said “don’t be sad, my son‎
      ‎You are destined to fall in love”‎
      ‎……………‎

      ‎For long have I studied fortune telling ‎
      ‎But never have I read a cup similar to yours ‎
      ‎For long have I studied fortune telling ‎
      ‎But never have I seen sorrows similar to yours ‎

      ‎You are predestined to sail forever ‎
      ‎Sail-less, on the sea of love ‎
      ‎Your life is forever destined ‎
      ‎To be a book of tears‎
      ‎Between water and fire ‎
      ‎……………..‎
      ‎……………‎
      ‎…………..‎

      ‎There is a woman in your life, my son ‎
      ‎Her eyes are so beautiful ‎
      ‎Glory to God ‎
      ‎Her mouth and her laughter ‎
      ‎Are full of roses and melodies ‎
      ‎And her gypsy and crazy love of life ‎
      ‎Travels the world ‎
      ‎……………….‎
      ‎………………..‎

      ‎Your beloved, my son, sleeping ‎
      ‎In a guarded palace ‎
      ‎He who approaches her garden wall ‎
      ‎Who enters her room ‎
      ‎And who proposes to her ‎
      ‎Or tries to unite her plaits ‎
      ‎Will cause her to be lost‎

      ‎You will seek her everywhere, my son ‎
      ‎You will ask the waves of the sea about her ‎
      ‎You will ask the shores of the seas‎
      ‎You will travel the oceans ‎
      ‎And your tears will flow like a river ‎

      ‎And at the close of your life ‎
      ‎You will find that since your beloved ‎
      ‎Has no land, no home, no address ‎
      ‎You have been pursuing only a trace of smoke ‎
      ‎How difficult it is, my son ‎
      ‎To love a woman ‎

      ‎Who has neither land, nor home ‎