برایم گریه کن امشب
Barayam Gerya Kon Emshab
“Cry for Me Tonight”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
Weep for me tonight — for tonight alone I am with you Weep for me tomorrow — for only a memory will remain The world of love will be in the name of Layla and Majnun And yet the travelers of love will have no guide
Come and kiss tonight — for tonight alone I am with you Other than this night here, I will be no more
I do not want you to lay the seal of love on my grave Nor do I want you, without me, to remain without another beloved
Transliteration
Barayam gerya kon imshab, ke tanha imshabam ba tu Barayam gerya kon farda, bajoz yade nakhwahad bood Jahane ishq khwahad bood, baname layli o majnoon Wa leken rahrawan ishq ra rahbar nakhwahad bood
Baroyam bosa zan imshab, ke tanha imshabam ba tu Bajoz az imshabam inja, shabe digar nakhwaham bood
Namekhwaham ke bar goram, labe mehr o wafa sayee Wa ya be man namekhwaham, ke be yare degar mani
متن اصلی
برايم گريه کن امشب ، که تنها امشبم با تو برايم گريه کن فردا ، بجز يادی نخواهد بود جهان عشق خواهد بود ، بنام ليلی و مجنون و ليکن رهروان عشق را رهبر نخواهد بود
برويم بوسه زن امشب ، که تنها امشبم با تو بجز از امشبم اينجا ، شبی ديگر نخواهم بود
نمی خواهم که بر گورم ، لب مهر و وفا سايی و يا بی من نميخواهم ، که بی يار دگر مانی
Weep for me tonight — for tonight alone I am with you. A farewell poem that invokes Layla and Majnun only to deflect it: the speaker does not want love sealed on his grave or his beloved left without another.
About This Recording
The poem opens with the oldest call in Persian lyric: weep tonight, for the moment is singular. But where most ghazals of parting collapse into grief, this one turns in its final couplet: 'I do not want you to lay the seal of love on my grave / Nor do I want you, without me, to remain without another beloved.' The speaker releases the beloved instead of binding her to mourning.
'The world of love will be in the name of Layla and Majnun / And yet the travelers of love will have no guide' — to invoke Layla and Majnun, Nizami's 12th-century epic of impossible love, is to say the mythology of devotion will persist, but it will be a labyrinth without exits. Love outlasts the lovers; meaning outlasts the relationship.
Ahmad Zahir sings this kind of farewell with a quality of lived acceptance rather than theatrical grief. The request not to be mourned exclusively — not to become someone's fixed grief — is generous in a tradition that usually demands absolute fidelity even beyond death. It is one of the more quietly radical gestures in his catalog.
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