We all have past love stories hunting us, we always try to find a way to run from them. Some even get married to do so, but this song reminds you of literally everything you ran from. Welcome to the depressed lovers underworld!
Story
The most famous love story the Arab has seen in this century, Sherine and Hossam .
All our Mothers know about it, let me give you a quick sum up. Rumors say they began dating each other in 2016 after their collab song “Kol Maghanni”.
They got married in 2018, and after A LOT of drama, they divorced in 2021 . When I say a lot of drama, I mean a lot, Sherine is basically the Kardashian of the Arab World after this.
They Reunite later that year and divorce again in 2023. Well one of them is a psycho, that's for sure. But as long as we keep getting songs like Batmana Ansak, I mean keep going at it?
This song is super known in the Gen Z world because of Instagram reels and Tiktok. I even once witnesed a drunk 19 yo singing it while passing out, that's something.
Lyrics
بتمنى أنساك
زي ما إنت نسيتني في يوم
بتمنى أنساك
وأنسى إن أنا حبيتك يوم
بتمنى أنساك
I wish I could forget you
The way you forgot me one day
I wish I could forget you
And forget that I ever loved you once
I wish I could forget you
I always tell anyone I meet, you will never forget your truest love (not your first) even if it ended bad.
In my life I spoke/speak to a lot of different personalities, but I think these verses are targeted to one. The one that could live a whole love story and just forget about it the next day, I really don't know how they do it.
They usually forget about friends too, I'm not targeting girls only, I know boys who do this. Just totally forget about you, they don't even pretend.
An old friend of mine once told me " You just have to move on " I mean how? Are we the victims of attachment or are they the victims of forgetting?
بتمنى أنساك
وأنسى إن أنا حبيتك يوم
ويجي النوم
أو يجي الموت
بس يسكت صوت الآه
والعتاب واللوم، اللوم
I wish I could forget you
And forget that I ever loved you once
And let sleep come
Or let death come
Just to silence the sound of sighing
And the blame and reproach, the reproach
You know that time when you put that your phone and just wait to fall asleep, that's when your mind really reminds of every single person you ever knew or loved.
Some view that as torture, some as nostalgia. But clearly in the song's lyrics some view it as relief, relief of overthinking what you should have done right, what you could have said.
You just run away from this into your sleep, or your death. Both would comfort you in the absence of your lover.
هو أنا حبيتك ليه؟
صدقت كلام أوهام
وصحيت على نار وآلام
كان قلبي وحيد مرتاح
وإنت اللي مليته جراح
خليتني أحبك ليه؟
ما دام إنت ما حبتني
شوإزاي أنا بموت وتعيش؟
وعينيك بالليل بتنام
Why did I even love you?
I believed the words of illusions
And woke up to fire and pain
My heart was alone and at peace
And you're the one who filled it with wounds
Why did you make me love you?
Since you never loved me back
How am I dying while you live on?
And your eyes sleep peacefully through the night
The same question is posed, how can you live on while I die? I die without your smell, without your kiss, without your smile.
You know, I'm writing this article/post not for success or money or whatever, I'm writing it just so if I die someday and leave this world, I would leave something behind, leave it for the people I loved and left. I'm not a victim here, not always. But I do hope forgiveness from anyone I hurt.
Maybe Sherine and Hossam relationship isn't an exception, it's in all of us. Just turn around and you'll sleeping beasts while beauties are awake overthinking what could have they done right.
بتمنى تزول
ملامحك من بالي تزول
لو حتى تروح
بطلوع الروح، مقبول
I wish it would fade
Your face, gone from my mind
Even if it costs me
My last breath — accepted
Each and every one of us remembers exactly what their true lovers face looks like, even the bad things, the pimples, the yellowish teeth, sometimes even her mustach.
Well some of us keep chasing that face all their life, looking for someone similar, at least on the outside.
Conclusion
To everyone out there in a relationship, stop scrolling on Instagram and trying to replecate what others do. Live your lives as you want, don't split the bill just because someone said so in Tiktok. Don't overthink what you should do, just love.