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Amy Winehouse - Blues in the night
Now the rains a-fallin’
hear the trains a-callin’, whooee!
Hear the lonesome whistle
blowin’ across the trestle, whooee
a-whooee-ah-whooee, clickety-clack,
Comes echoing back,
The blues in the night.
Who Loves You / Billie Holiday
Who loves you?
Ask yourself the question
Who loves you, sweetheart?
And tell me who thinks of you
A million times a day?
And who’s blue and lonely, honey
When you’re away?
Sade - No Ordinary Love
When you came my way
You brightened every day
With your sweet smileDidn’t I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won’t last
Didn’t I give you
All that I’ve got to give babyThis is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
Yang Yuying
Lyrics:
风打孤灯夜呀一江水弯弯
春风短情丝长又见雨夜花
夜长苦梦短呀窗外雨茫茫
苦无眠剪愁肠昨夜望春风
春风不知花落时独有雨夜花
有情有意雨夜花伴我走天涯
风打孤灯夜呀一江水弯弯
春风短情丝长昨夜望春风
春风不知花落时独有雨夜花
有情有意雨夜花伴我走天涯
风打孤灯夜呀一江水弯弯
春风短情丝长又见雨夜花
夜长苦梦短呀窗外雨茫茫
苦无眠剪愁肠又见雨夜花
You won’t be satisfied until you break my heart
You’re never satisfied until the teardrops start
I tried to shower you with lovin’ kisses
But all I ever get from you is naggin’ & braggin’,
my poor heart is saggin’
The way you toss my heart around’s a cryin’ shame
I’ll bet you wouldn’t like it if I did the same
You’re only happy tearin’ all my dreams apart
You won’t be satisfied until you break my heart
Fairouz
A greeting from my heart to Beirut
kisses to the sea and to the houses
to a rock, which is like an old sailor’s face
She is made from the people’s soul..from wine
She is from his sweat…a bread and Jasmines
So how does her taste become? A taste of fire and smoke
Beirut has a glory of ashes
My city has turned out her lamp
By a child’s blood, who was over her hand
She’s shut her door, and became alone in the sky
Alone with the night
Arabic Text:
لِبَيرُوت، مِنْ قََلْبِي سَلاَمٌ لِبَيْرُوت
وَقُبَلٌ لِلْبَحْرِوَالبُيُوت
لِصَخْرَةٍ كَأَنَّهَا وَجْهُ بَحَّارٍ قََدِيمٍ
هِيَ مِنْ رُوحِ الشَّعْبِ خَمْرٌ، هِيَ مِنْ
عَرَقِهِ خُبْزٌوَاليَا سْمِيِن
فَكَيْفَ صَارَطَعْمُهَا طَعْمَ نَارٍ وَ دُخَّانٍ
لِبَيرُوت، مَجْدٌ مِنْ رَمَادٍ لِبَيْرُوت
مِنْ دَمٍ لِوَلَدٍ حُمِلَ فَوْقَ َيدِهَا
أَطْفَأتْ مَدِينَتي قَِنَْدِيلَهَا
أَغْلَقَتْ بَابَهَا
أَصْبَحَتْ فِي المَسَاءِ وَحْدَهَا، وَحْدَهَا وَاللَّيلُ
Echo and the Bunnymen / Back Of Love
I’m on the chopping block
Chopping off my stopping thought
Self doubt and selfism
Were the cheapest things I ever bought
When you say it’s love
D’you mean the back of love
When you say it’s love
D’you mean the back of love?
La Paloma — Rosita Serrano (1938)
"La Paloma" was composed and written by the Spanish composer of the Basq region Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) after he visited Cuba in 1861. Iradier may have composed "La Paloma" around 1863, just two years before he died in Spain in obscurity, never to learn how popular his song would become.