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)