چه خواهی گفت روز
Chi Khowahi Goft Rooz
“What Will the Day Say”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
What will you say on the day of resurrection before my God? What answer to the groaning and weeping, the crying of mine?
You have taken my hope and desire — so that in the world No desire for being alive remains for me
Would you further dishonor me among the people, like the drunken? Put the chain of disgrace and notoriety on my feet
Has the autumn season and its fallen leaves gone by too long? Remember the pale face and the autumn leaves of mine
Transliteration
Chi khowahi goft rooz-e hashr o dar peshe khodae man? Jawabe nala-ha o gerya hay, hay haye man?
Omid o arezoyam bordae ba khod ke dar dunya Namanad arezoe zenda budan az baraye man
Az in raswataram khowahi, myane khalq o cho mastan Beneh zanjeer raswaye o badnami ba paye man
Ze yadat rafta gar fasle khazan o barge payezi? Bayad awar rokh-e zard o khazan barghaye man
متن اصلی
چه خواهی گفت روز حشر در پيش خدای من؟ جواب ناله ها و گريه هاي، های های من؟
اميد و آرزويم برده ای با خود که در دنيا نماند آرزوی زنده بودن از برای من
از اين رسواترم خواهی، ميان خلق چو مستان بنه زنجير رسوايی و بدنامی به پای من
زيادت رفته گر فصل خزان و برگ پاييزی؟ بياد آور رخ زرد و خزان برگهای من!
What will you say on the day of resurrection — you who have taken my hope, dishonored me, and now leave me with only the pale face and autumn leaves of memory?
About This Recording
Chi Khowahi Goft Rooz — What Will You Say on That Day — invokes the day of resurrection (roz-e qiyamat) as a frame of ultimate accountability. In Islamic tradition, that day is when all deeds are witnessed and answered for. The speaker is not calling down punishment but asking a question: when everything is accounted for, how will the beloved explain what she has done? The groaning, the weeping, the crying — these are presented as evidence that the beloved will have to account for.
The middle stanza names the crime with legal precision: 'You have taken my hope and desire — so that in the world / No desire for being alive remains for me.' The hope and desire (omid and arzoo) are the speaker's vital capacities, removed by the beloved's actions. What remains is a body without the will to live — which in the language of Persian lyric is the most complete form of being undone.
The autumn image in the closing couplet — pale face and autumn leaves — is the visual document of what has been done. In Persian lyric, the pale face (rokh-e zard) is the speaker's own evidence: the yellowing of a face deprived of health, deprived of the beloved's presence. The autumn leaves corroborate it. Together they make the case that even the lover's body is bearing witness, displaying what the beloved has left behind.
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