امشب به یاد روی تو
Emshab Ba Yade Roye Tu
“Tonight in Memory of Your Face”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
Tonight in memory of your face I will make an uproar, make an uproar I will give my heart over to grief, I will complain much to the world
Tonight in memory of your love, with my own tears I will be alone I will lament so much until I raise a flood of blood
You laugh at my pure love and say I am mad Yes, I am mad by nature — with goblet and flask I carry on
Transliteration
Imshab ba yade roye tu ghawgha konam, ghawgha konam Dil ra ba dast gham deham, baz shekwa az dunya konam
Imshab bayad isqe tu, ba ashke khod tanha shawam Anqadr zari ha konam, ta sele ask bar pa konam
Khandi ba ishqe pake man, goye ke man dewana am Aare mane dewana kho, dar saghar o mina konam
متن اصلی
امشب به یاد روی تو غوغا کنم ، غوغا کنم دل را بدست غم دهم ، بس شکوه از دنیا کنم
امشب بياد عشق تو ، با اشک خود تنها شوم آنقدر زاری ها کنم ، تا سيل خون بر پا کنم
خندی به عشق پاک من ، گويی که من ديوانه ام آری من ديوانه خو، در ساغر و مينا کنم
Tonight in memory of your face I will make an uproar — grief performed as event, as noise, as flood. The speaker announces his planned suffering to the world, then confirms he is mad by nature and carries on with goblet and flask.
About This Recording
This song is a declaration of intent: the speaker is not simply going to grieve quietly, but will 'make an uproar' and 'complain much to the world.' The public nature of this grief is deliberate — in the ghazal tradition, love's suffering is witnessed, announced, performed. The beloved should know, and so should everyone else.
'I will lament so much until I raise a flood of blood' — the escalating scale of the grief-event is characteristic of the ghazal's hyperbolic logic. Tears become blood; the flood is not figurative; the speaker intends to drown the world in evidence of what he is feeling.
The final turn is typically Zahir: 'You laugh at my pure love and say I am mad / Yes, I am mad by nature — with goblet and flask I carry on.' The accusation of madness is accepted, even adopted, and then immediately countered with a statement of method. The speaker doesn't protest the diagnosis — he confirms it and explains how he manages.
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