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Lyrics: The great poet Ahmed Fathy Music: The great musician Riad Al Sunbati Sung by: A. A. Kokab Al Sharq M. Kulthum Officers Club concert Cairo 1958 I will not return to you no matter how much my heartbeats beg for mercy You are the one who started the boredom and aversion And betrayed my love So if you call my heart today to be reconciled, it will not respond You were for me days when love was the hope of the world and the world of my hope When I sang to you the melody of flirtation Among the joys of the first love And you were my eyes, and in its light the flowers of youth and charms shone And you were my soul, my heart wandered in its secret And suspicions did not realize its extent You promised me that love between us would be nothing but contentment and purity And you told me that the torment of separation is good news that will bring us the nearness of the meeting Then you broke the promises that were pleasant My mind, have you seen anything new in fresh love? My love has gone, O my long supplications to Him, and my preoccupation in the nights of sleeplessness and ecstasy for Him, He was with me, and after you I have no blessing from my imaginations and ecstasy, I wonder what your soul will say after me, in my distance, my pride, and my asceticism. Live as you desire, near or far, according to my days, wounds, lamentations, and promises, and my nights of loss and ingratitude, and meeting and farewell, leaving the heart alone, the lamp and the cups and the memory stay awake with me, and the eyes of the night, their light fading in my tears, O memory of you, with which my soul lived in illusion for years, It has gone from my mind, except for an echo that accustoms me now and then, the story of yesterday I commune with, and the dreams of tomorrow, and the wishes of Hassan, She danced in my temple, and wounds Igniters of fire in my bed and clouds of a cloudy imagination like eternity I will not return to you no matter how much my heartbeats ask for mercy You are the one who started the boredom and aversion and betrayed my love So if you call my heart today to be at peace, no, it will not respond