دیگر اگر دل خون
Digar Agar Dil Khoon
“If My Heart Bleeds Again”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
If once more my heart bleeds If I am bewildered and enchanted I no longer want you
If like a shadow you wander door to door Following me until dawn A wanderer with wet eyes I no longer want you
If you become the light of my eyes If you become my body and soul If you become the candle of my bedchamber I no longer want you
Transliteration
Digar agar dil khoon shawam Gar waala o maftoon shawam Gar waala o maftoon shawam Digar namekhwaham tura
Gar saya bashi darbadar Dunbalam ahi taa sahar Awara ba chashman-e tar Digar namekhwaham tura
Gar noor chashman shawi Ham jesm o janam shawi Shame shabestanam shawi Digar namekhwaham tura
متن اصلی
دیگر اگر دل خون شوم گر واله و مفتون شوم گرواله و مفتون شوم دیگر نمیخواهم ترا
گر سایه باشی دربدر دنبالم آیی تا سحر آواره با چشمان تر دیگر نمی خواهم ترا
گر نور چشمان شوی هم جسم و جانم شوی شمع شبستانم شوی دیگر نمیخواهم ترا
If once more my heart bleeds, I no longer want you — but each stanza imagines the beloved becoming more essential: light of his eyes, body and soul, candle of the bedchamber. Rejection that cannot stop describing what it refuses.
About This Recording
The structure is a controlled paradox: each stanza adds a hypothetical of such intimacy and beauty that the speaker's refusal sounds increasingly unreliable. 'If you become the light of my eyes / If you become my body and soul / If you become the candle of my bedchamber — I no longer want you.' The litany of perfect union, followed each time by rejection.
This is not a poem of indifference. It is a poem of someone trying to build immunity by naming the disease. In classical Persian ghazal, the beloved is so thoroughly described through her effects on the body — what she does to eyes, what she does to breath — that refusing her requires refusing the entire physical self. The poem understands this but refuses anyway.
Ahmad Zahir's interpretation of poems like this one emphasizes the sincerity beneath the formal structure. His baritone holds the refrain with something quieter than anger — a steadiness that suggests the speaker has decided something and is not certain it will hold. The repeated 'I no longer want you' is less a declaration than a repeated attempt at one.
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