اگر این آسمان ستاره
Agar Ein Asoman Setara
“If This Sky Has a Star”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
If this sky had no stars I would make my own eyes into stars To hang from your chest and shoulder I would make my tears into earrings
If no tulip were laughing in the meadow I would pluck petals from the blush of dawn
With thousands of wild poppies I would make a cup around your eyes
Transliteration
Agar ein asoman setara nadasht Chashme khod ra setara mekardam Ta beyawezad az bar o dosham Ashko ra goshwara mekardam
Dar chaman lala gar namekhandad Az shafaq barge lala mechidam
Agar ein asoman setara nadasht Chashme khod ra setara mekardam Ta beyawezad az bar o dosham Ashko ra goshwara mekardam
Ba hazaran shafaeqe wahshi Gerde chashmat peyala mekardam
Agar ein asoman setara nadasht Chashme khod ra setara mekardam Ta beyawezad az bar o dosham Ashko ra goshwara mekardam
متن اصلی
اگر اين آسمان ستاره نداشت چشم خود را ستاره می کردم تا بياويزد از بر و دوشم اشک را گوشواره می کردم
در چمن لاله گر نمی خنديد از شفق برگ لاله می چيدم
اگر اين آسمان ستاره نداشت چشم خود را ستاره می کردم تا بياويزد از بر و دوشم اشک را گوشواره می کردم
با هزاران شقايق وحشی گرد چشمت پياله می کردم
اگر اين آسمان ستاره نداشت چشم خود را ستاره می کردم تا بياويزد از بر و دوشم اشک را گوشواره می کردم
If this sky had no stars, I would make my own eyes into stars; if no flowers were laughing in the meadow, I would pluck petals from the blush of dawn. The speaker's suffering transformed into adornment for the beloved.
About This Recording
'If this sky had no stars / I would make my own eyes into stars' — the poem is built on hypothetical devotion: what the speaker would do if the world's ordinary beauties were absent. The eyes converted to stars — organs of perception transformed into celestial decorations — is a gesture of complete self-offering. Not the giving of love but the giving of the physical capacity for sight.
'To hang from your chest and shoulder / I would make my tears into earrings' — tears into jewelry is a transformation that recurs across Persian lyric in various forms, but specifically into earrings (gushvara) to hang from the beloved's body is remarkably precise. The tears that fall from the speaker become ornaments that adorn the beloved.
'With thousands of wild poppies / I would make a cup around your eyes' — wild poppies (laleh-ha-ye wahshi) are red flowers associated with the blood of martyrs in Persian tradition. A cup (qaab) of poppies around the beloved's eyes frames them as something sacred, encircled by the color of sacrifice. The poem's devotional logic is consistent: what the speaker has, or what the world has, exists only insofar as it can serve the beloved's beauty.
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