Oh, you know I have seen A sky without sun, a man with no nation
Saints, captive in chains A song with no name for lack of imagination
* And I have seen Darker than ebony And now it seems, that I
Without your eyes could never be
** My one desire, all I aspire Is in your eyes forever to live
Traveled all over, the seven oceans There is nothing that I wouldn't give
Came from Bahrein, gone to Beruit Looking for someone comparing to you
Tearing down windows and doors And I could not find eyes like yours
Rabboussamai fikarrajaii Fi ainaiha aralhayati Ati ilaika min haza lkaaouni
Arjouka labbi labbi nidai Came from Bahrain, until Beirut
Looking for someone comparing to you Tearing down windows and doors
And I could not find eyes like yours
Oh, you know I have seen A woman of means in rags and begging for pleasure
Crossed, a river of salt Just after I rode a ship that sunk in the desert
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Rabboussamai fikarrajaii Fi ainaiha aralhayati
Ati ilaika min haza lkaaouni Arjouka labbi labbi nidai
Came from Bahrein, gone to Beruit Looking for someone comparing to you
Tearing down windows and doors And I could not find eyes like yours
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