It was necessary

How many words

would have clung to your feet

when you (would have) burned

my last letter

When you took the flowers

out of the books,

you must have remembered

the giver

It was also necessary

for the waters of your eyes to flow

Love was also necessary

To be separated was also necessary

It was necessary for us both

to go around our desire,

but it was also necessary for our desires

to afterwards be spoiled

[repeats chorus]

[instrumental bridge]

Tell me you remember

when you have stolen this heart.

That stolen item, you

had made it the house of God

And when you used to say that

you recited my name in tasbih,

that you were afraid of missing

the prayers of love

But now I remember that

those were words, mere words.

It was also necessary to go back

on words said, just words

It was also necessary

for the waters of your eyes to flow

Our appearances are the same,

I am the same, you are the same,

but I have become lost,

but you also are lost somewhere

In love, I have been treacherous

so we were infidels, so we are infidels.

(Our) destinations were met, but still,

we were travellers, we are travellers

Dismissed from your heart, I

wandered here, arrived there …

But then, wandering, I remembered

(that) wandering was also necessary,

(that) love was also necessary,

(that) separating was also necessary

It was necessary for us both

to go around our desire,

but it was also necessary for our desires

to afterwards be spoiled.

It was also necessary

for the waters of your eyes to flow