Cheb Mami feat. Sting - Desert Rose

Hi all, I've been browsing the net for a suitable translation of Cheb Mami's lyrics in the Desert Rose but so far I have only found translations that tried to like shorten the meaning of the whole text in just one or two sentences, whereas I'm hoping for finding an actual translation of Cheb Mami's lyrics and the exact meaning - as I saw a hard-working member of this forum has done with many Arabic songs, writting a line and below the translation in English.

Anyway here is the part I'm hoping for being translated, I believe it is the most correct one of all currently on net - as Cheb sings in some dialect from what I understood, making it hard to correctly write what he sings.

lai......... lai… lai… aa^ … pa … aa^ … pa… ma… pa…
lalima de afrina de nin hau husain’ wah^ ho ya ho ya husain di^ di^
de nin hau husain’ wah^ ho ya ho ya husain di^ di^
de nin hau husain’ wah…….. ali ya husain di di

Thank you in advance, cheers.

sorry ,it's not my accent

ah kk

Translation from Arabic(Algerian) to English:

Cheb Mami [ Intro ] : first chorus
Oh night oh night
It has been a long time
And I am looking for myself and my loved one
And I am looking for myself and my loved one
And I am looking for myself and my loved one
My life is for you
And no one other than you
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[Cheb Mami]
Layli ya layli ya

Hadi muda tweela

Wana nh'awis ana wa'la ghzalti

Wana nh'awis ana wa'la ghzalti

Wana nh'awis ana wa'la ghzali

[Sting]
I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in vain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of fire


Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire

And in the flames

Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire


This desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this


And as she turns

This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams

This fire burns

I realize that nothing's as it seems


I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in vain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand


I dream of rain

I lift my gaze to empty skies above

I close my eyes

This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of her love


Aman aman aman


I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in vain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand


Omri feek entiya

Ma gheer entiya

Ma gheer entiya


Sweet desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this


Sweet desert rose

This memory of Eden haunts us all

This desert flower

This rare perfume, is the sweet intoxication of the fall


Ya lili ah ya leel

How did the 'wrong' lyrics (below) of Desert Rose GET ALL OVER THE INTERNET, i don't know how that happened:
lai......... lai… lai… aa^ … pa … aa^ … pa… ma… pa…
lalima de afrina de nin hau husain’ wah^ ho ya ho ya husain di^ di^
de nin hau husain’ wah^ ho ya ho ya husain di^ di^
de nin hau husain’ wah…….. ali ya husain di di

Every website on the net that tries to decipher these lyrics keeps on having these wrong ones, how the hell did that happen??????????????????????


The FOLLOWING ARE the correct lyrics, directly from the Sting CD "Brand New Day" (which featured the 2000 hit song of Desert Rose) pamphlet itself:

هدي مدة طويلة
Hadaee mada tawila
وانا نحوس انا وعلا غزالتي
Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti
وانا نحوس انا وعلا غزالتي
Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti
وانا نحوس انا وعلا غزالتي
Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti

عمري فيك انتيا
Omry feek antia
ما غيرانتيا
Ma ghair antia
ما غيرانتيا
Ma ghair antia