Old song by Lebanon's most famous singer

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Posted by lerue (My Page) on

Fri, Jul 21, 06 at 21:49

Fairouz: "Ya Tair"

Here is a link that might be useful: Ya Tair

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Posted by jobird (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 22, 06 at 11:37

Interesting video and super voice;but, again it was not in English, so I couldn't understand what she was singing about.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fairuz

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Posted by petaloid (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 22, 06 at 12:54

On Google Advanced I searched for the word translation and the phrase Ya Tair. Results showed me that this artist has English song translations included in the CD pamphlets. (The Fairuz link was interesting -- what a roller-coaster life she has had)

Ya Tair (O bird)

O bird flying
on the tip of the world
If you would only tell
the beloved about me
O bird.

Go ask the one who is alone
and wounded, all remedies of no avail
pained and not telling
what pains him
and in his memory recur
nights of childhood.

O bird who carries
the color of trees
in which there's nothing but boredom
and waiting
with the sun's eye I wait
on coldness of stone
the hands of reparation shake me
and I am troubled.

I beseech you by your teachers
which are equal to my days
I beseech by the thorn-rose and the wind
if you are going toward those
whom I love
and were love to erupt again
take me even for one minute
and return me.

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Posted by lerue (My Page) on
Sat, Jul 22, 06 at 20:22

Thanks Jobird for linking to that Wikipedia article. A lot of the information on her personal life was new to me. I knew she had divorced, but I didn't realize how extreme the whole situation had been, and had never heard about her daughter's suicide. I can kind of understand her comments about feeling caged: there is something so formal about the way she traditionally presented herself. At the same time, most of the newer material written by her son Ziad does nothing for me. (Some of it is downright awful.)

I wouldn't have expected to find those lyrics online. Thanks, Petaloid.

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