And this is what came out of it - another Egyptian love song for our CD. I have now finished all the new ones, and now only need to translate those for which the music has already been composed.

Beautiful day

 

Beautiful day...

 

When you penetrate

my house pouring beer

I am feeling great

in happiness sheer.

 

Beautiful day

You have come my way

Beautiful day

Join me now to pray

For a beautiful day.

 

Singers with their lute

Singing songs of love

Forgetful and mute

We're wafted above.

 

Beautiful day

You have come my way

Beautiful day

Join me now to pray

For a beautiful day.

 

Your heat rises, and

Fulfills all my dreams

Your task in this land

Now so easy seems.

 

Beautiful day

You have come my way

Beautiful day

Join me now to pray

For a beautiful day.

 

Speak, and I shall hear!

You walk in a dance!

Now that you are here,

I adore your stance.

 

Beautiful day

You have come my way

Beautiful day

Join me now to pray

For a beautiful day.

This one was extremely tricky, as I feel that the original loses sense at points and I did not want to overintepret. The food and beer... Short verses on request of the composer.  

 

For whom do you pray?

 

For whom do you pray

when you're far away?

Will you embrace me,

and come back to me?

 

Desire

On fire

Reaching out

I cry and shout ...

 

When you long for me,

To touch me gently,

Fight your love for food

I can lift your mood!

 

Desire

On fire

Reaching out

I cry and shout ...

 

Feel you need some dress?

I clothe with caress!

If it's beer you need,

My breasts too can feed!

 

Overflow for you

Riches, precious too

(A) day in your embrace

Of sorrow no trace.

 

Desire

On fire

Reaching out

I cry and shout ...

Just a few pics....

It was huge thing for my family... they say I looked like on shrooms, smiling wide all the time - they did not know how happy I was that it was finally OVER.

yes, another one :o)

 

 

Your love is     in my heart

                        in my soul

                        and in my body

 

Your love is like linen on the skin of the great

Your love can like incense to the gods penetrate

 

Your love is like a ring on the hand of a bride

Your love is like mandrake that a man bring with pride

 

Your love is like date juice sweetening jugs of beer

Your love's a secret spell banishing every fear

 

Your love is like honey mixed with milk, soft and sweet

Your love's like waters that in a cool shadow meet

 

Your love is     in my heart

                        in my soul

                        and in my body

 

Until the old age comes,

I‘m yours in every way,

Until we rest in peace

For your love I shall pray:

 

To my heart, to my god, and to my goddess.

 

I am full of these texts at the moment, as I need to make them quite fast and I am actually really enjoying this.

 

All night and day

In every way

I long for your love.

 

No sleep at all,

Staring, forlorn,

At the sky above.

 

It's you that I dream about,

Your face's what I want to see,

Waking tired every night,

Wishing you were here with me. 

 

Your smiling face,

Glorious grace,

Brings life to my heart.

 

Only your voice

Makes me rejoice,

Feels like a new start.

 

It's you that I dream about,

Your face's what I want to see,

Waking tired every night,

Wishing you were here with me. 

 

No one else can touch your soul,

None adores you like I do,

Without you I am not whole,

There is no one else for you.

 

... this is genuine ancient Egyptian, despite the fact that I tried to make it a workable English song text and keep wondering whether my English is good enough for this. The songs are very simple already in their original form, so it's not my lacking vocabulary, and I am actually enjoying writing these texts tremendously,  but I am a little worried since they are going to actually be recorded and published, officially... I am trying to stay as close to the original as I can. Right now I am working on another one, filled with metaphors for love... So far I have:

Your love is like linen on the skin of the great.

Your love can like incense to the gods penetrate.

...

Your love is like date juice, sweet in a jug of beer.

Your love's a secret spell banishing every fear.

 

Tell me what you think. I am, btw. indeed not making these up, just polishing them a bit, they're there in hieratic on papyri :o)