Rubaiyat Lyrics (English Translation) – Sharif, Rafael Lechowski

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[Verse 1: Rafael Lechowski]
The mind always looks back nostalgically at the past
But pay no attention, it’s only an idealized moment
What’s real is the present, this sacred instant
Let’s toast, let’s live, may death surprise us

Tired of enjoying, not of living with reproaches
Blessed is that light that woke me from my night
Calm down, fill yourself, brother, overcome discouragement
You are thirst and the inexhaustible source at the same time

I am no saint, see my flaw
Life gave me the gift of speech, and with it I did so much harm
I confess, I conjure myself
I light the flower, I toast, and I heal myself
Like Omar Khayyam, like Epicurus

The world is anxiety, life is permanent joy
But we tend to be blind to the obvious
That’s why if I get lost, I always return to my people
Only love corrects our mistakes

Glory and failure are matters of the World
I’m focused on living, life is, in itself, a triumph
Act without cruelty, conquer the feat, unravel the tangle
Don’t put anything off until tomorrow
Now and here, I still have the strength to continue
There are still many treasures to unearth within me
If you ask if a miracle exists, I answer yes
For there is no greater miracle than the miracle of existing

I have searched for you so much
And like a butterfly on a petal, you camouflaged yourself in the everyday
In this bread that I share with my brother
On this strange day, in this beautiful light in which I bathe

I no longer pursue the dream of the flock

I know that doing what you don’t love is a deception
That’s why I put my soul into every line
This is the bread of my family
I water and bless, one by one, each grape of the harvest

Fame rocks us in a foolishness that makes us proud
And in the end, it fades
And nothing remains, except the day that dawns
So have faith and be thankful Everything that happens to you

It’s a mistake to think you deserve more
It means you expect something in return for what you give
When the fruit is in what is offered
In desiring what you already have, so you can be grateful for what comes

The dream of a humble person always comes true
Ah, how rich I am, how late I learned it
Clumsily, I have already reached the halfway point of the miracle
The other half I will spend celebrating

Rubaiyat!

[Verse 2: Sharif]
Perhaps the place I’m headed doesn’t exist
So love is the little I demand from the crazy path I choose
Fixed, the father’s light in the son’s eyes
Time is a mirror and its reflection a riddle, and I

Old Beethoven, living words
If since I was young I’ve only been pollen drifting
September arrived with its wound
And I writing a ‘forever’ with saliva on my girl’s belly, well

I grew up under the May rain
Knowing the pain hidden in everything I keep silent
Here we grew up wanting to tame the lightning
In the vacant lots where flowers didn’t grow, the horse ran

And now, how do you explain that by following my own trail
I understood what the stars predict? Odd or even, the years multiply
Time eats and eats but doesn’t tame me, because

I’m from the school that doesn’t sell its self-respect
In my mind, an acapella, in the verse, cinnamon and opium, and no (No, no, no)
My soliloquy is not a song
I’m only killing hunger while the sun burns in Tokyo, I

I don’t forget to kiss the scar
Because the street where I bled is the same one where I was happy
Rafa and Sharif are the flower and the root
The master’s gray hair and the apprentice’s desire

[Chorus: Rafael Lechowski & Sharif]
We come from the blue night
Children of the flower and the blood
We know of the shadow and the light
Butterflies perched on the wire

We come from the blue night
Children of the flower and the blood
We know of the shadow and the light
Butterflies perched on the wire