Rhythm is 996 / 558

A song for Ann

Remember our last hours together,

Later to all go our various ways,

Fly for ever away,

For ever apart.

With full address-books

For we thought we would meet again.

All the light the lamp had shed on you,

All the night, had been pleasure and laugh,

Before each kissed good-bye.

’Twas love that we felt

We did understand

Yet we thought we would meet again.

Bob told Lou that you’re still beautiful

Now that so many years have gone by.

I saw them both one day.

But still, you’re alone;

Will you ever know

I love a girl, this girl is you ?

Miles and miles of war and peace have stretched

Since we met, all those years men have played

With love and hate in vain.

My bedroom is cold

‘Cause I’ve never found

The girl whose eyes could shine with love.

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After the world broke up

MEANT TO BE SUNG (A minor)

To Mahmoud, Tahar and Qaqi

MEANT TO BE SUNG

Rhythm : 10-6-8 / 7-11

We have given you everything I could …

Long days, sometimes boring,

Evenings were cold, sometimes thrilling

Our only entertainment

Was confined to meeting you as friends or mates

We’ll remember you were only thirteen

And couldn’t understand.

Ten years older you’ll realize

That what we left in your hands

Maybe were the last glowing sparks of our youths.

You will follow that destiny of yours,

There’ll be no trouble for you:

Sure you will find how to succeed.

Aren’t men wicked ?, yet nothing

Can raise as much hope and friendship as one man.

When we leave your country for good

And for ever leave your lives,

Sure we’ll cry as did others who loved you less.