A keresés eredménye oldal 64

Books

Is this then a book,
this, how shall I say? murmur,
this face turned to the inside
of something dark that doesn’t yet exist,
that if touched
by a suddenly innocent hand
opens helplessly
like a mouth
speaking in our own voice?
Is this a book,
this kind of heart (our heart)
saying ‘I’ between we and us?
 

Returning

Like somebody coming from distant countries outside
himself, arriving at last where he’s always been
and finding everything in its proper place,
the past in the past, present in the present,
so too the traveler arrives at old age
where he and his path become one.
 
He enters his home for the first time
and for the first time lies down on his bed.
Left behind are ports, islands, cities,
memories, times of year.
And finally he eats the primal bread
that does not taste of foreign words.
 

Cúnnla

Who Is That Down There Knocking Down The Stone Walls?
Who Is That Down There Knocking Down The Stone Walls?
Who Is That Down There Knocking Down The Stone Walls?
“Only Myself” Says Cúnnla
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me!”
Who Is That Down There Pulling The Blanket Off Me?
Who Is That Down There Pulling The Blanket Off Me?
Who Is That Down There Pulling The Blanket Off Me?
“Only Myself” Says Cúnnla
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me!”
“My Soul I Will!” Says Cúnnla
“My Soul I Will!” Says Cúnnla
“My Soul I Will!” Says Cúnnla
“Only Myself” Says Cúnnla
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me!”
Who Is That Down There Tickling The Soles Of My Feet?
Who Is That Down There Tickling The Soles Of My Feet?
Who Is That Down There Tickling The Soles Of My Feet?
“Only Myself” Says Cúnnla
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me!”
“My Soul I Will!” Says Cúnnla
“My Soul I Will!” Says Cúnnla
“My Soul I Will!” Says Cúnnla
“Only Myself” Says Cúnnla
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me Cúnnla!”
“Dear Cúnnla Don't Come Any Nearer To Me!”
 

Happy Birthday

The clock struck 12
You closed your house door
All your friends came inside
(Today is your celebration, happy birthday)
Let your eyes smile
Shine like the light from the sun
Endless happiness to you
 
We came and gathered around you today
All of your friends
Be always happy and lucky
(Happy birthday)
come, come, is it not the time now
Keep in your mind your hearts desire
And blow the candles of your cake
(Happy birthday)
 
We came and gathered around you today
All of your friends
Be always happy and lucky
(Happy birthday)
come, come, is it not the time now
Keep in your mind your hearts desire
And blow the candles of your cake
(Happy birthday)
 
Let yourself always shine
With every step you take
You always give love and kindness
(Today is your celebration, happy birthday)
Let yourself always be a spring
Stay, stay always that pretty
We love you very much
 
We came and gathered around you today
All of your friends
Be always happy and lucky
(Happy birthday)
come, come, is it not the time now
Keep in your mind your hearts desire
And blow the candles of your cake
(Happy birthday)
 
We came and gathered around you today
All of your friends
Be always happy and lucky
(Happy birthday)
come, come, is it not the time now
Keep in your mind your hearts desire
And blow the candles of your cake
Happy celebration
Happy celebration
 
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He was indeed only a gypsy

The wagons come at night,
and their journey was over.
For a pair of days perhaps,
till I find a new destination.
 
And a love began,
between two, who are different,
and all said: 'Such a man,
[he] is nothing for you my child.'
 
He was indeed only a gypsy,
and everyone knew one
that brings the wind, and takes it with him,
and in his heart no one sees.
 
He was indeed only a gypsy,
a poor small gypsy,
but how much love he felt for her,
that nobody told her.
 
And so the two moved on,
from place to place.
 
And their love was strong,
but not as strong as the others,
they took her away from him,
and let him farther wander.
 
Whoever understands their language,
know that they are yet exactly
so. They are like you and like me,
but there are hearts that are blind.
 
He was indeed only a gypsy,
and everyone knew one
that brings the wind, and takes it with him,
and in his heart no one sees.
 
He was indeed only a gypsy,
a poor small gypsy,
but how much love he felt for her,
that nobody told her.
 

Crazy Soul

For as long as I can remember, I have never felt this way
There's something in the air, I don't know what, but it's something
Every day, I imagine you, how you would be
If you were, If only I knew the color of your eyes
 
Though each time
You are just a colored form
And I ask myself if I will ever know
Something about you
 
But you aren't real, I don't have your touch
You are just a song that I sing from my heart
And I fall in love with it, even though I don't want to
Because I'm too crazy to have someone now
 
Lunatic with a really large soul
Lunatic with a really large soul
 
There wasn't a 'him' in my mind until now
But something hit me, I don't know what, but I know since when
Each night, I think about where you are
And I dream in color how it is at your chest
 
Though each time
You are just a colored form
And I ask myself if I will ever know
Something about you
 
But you aren't real, I don't have your touch
You are just a song that I sing from my heart
And I fall in love with it, even though I don't want to
Because I'm too crazy to have someone now
 
Lunatic with a really large soul
Lunatic with a really large soul
 
If you knew me, you would love all my insanity
Why don't you come to me to hold me from naked fear
I am real with you, totally real
 
But you aren't real, I don't have your touch
You are just a song that I sing from my heart
And I fall in love with it, even though I don't want to
Because I'm too crazy to have someone now
 
Lunatic with a really large soul
Lunatic with a really large soul
 
If I have made a mistake, please, tell me! Thank you!
Dacă am făcut o greșeală, te rog, spune-mi! Mulțumesc!

How pretty are the commercials (Spanish version)

How pretty are the commercials
that they broadcast on TV
And it's their happy music
their power of persuasion
Are so good the commercials
that you always exclaim
Too bad that they cut them
to put shows
How pretty are the commercials
that they broadcast on TV
With their happy music,
pararán chimpón chimpón
 
What do the modern kids eat?
Cracker jacks, beans and sugar
Choco-plast, choco-plast!
The snack for today's children
For them to make sport and a healthy life
And purge all week long
With a choco-plast, with a choco-plast
With a choco-plast is enought
(With cards of the Challenger explosion)
 
They are mad about you
because you smell like a man
which is their loved scent, roar
And at one mile of distance
they note your fragance
and the congested ambient, roar
Your perfume leaves print,
they remember you passionately
And they need the help of God
to vent the room
Roar, roar (to smell like a tiger)
 
Freedom, freedom
Freedom all a victory
Freedom for you woman!
Freedom, freedom
Freedom and more freedom
This is a maxi pad commercial
as you have noticed
Freedom, freedom, freedom!
 
Nya nya nya nya, nya nya nya nya
I have an authomatic seed-peeler and you not
I bought it because it's absolutely indispensable
And it's portatile, programmable and even remote-controlled
Nya nya nya nya, nya nya nya nya
I have an authomatic seed-peeler and you not
You'll see, you'll buy it too!
(Peelmax, it peels them well peeled)
 
How pretty are the commercials
that they broadcast on TV
With their happy music,
pararán chimpón chimpón
 

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naughty (girl/lady?)

from which earth will it be
where is your sea? they say:
which is your sun, your air, your river?
my origin was made as soon as something darkened
and when to him i return i cannot find again
 
every time i take a walk
i lose myself on the path
i deviate, the air is lacking
river, sea, earth, sun of mine
with what i am not
i always go there
 
the old fragile mirror shattered
and of me there are no more witnesses
that if another stranger, it is also me
 

Seven sons

Once in Greece,
there was Yanny
he didn't see nothing anyways.
 
Full of choices
Life looked,
That isn't the truth!
 
Пободі молоди джівцица молода
(Pobodi molody dzivtsytsa moloda)
 
Eck, Eck - that isn't life, living Ukrainian style!
Greek, my life is - really is!
 
Chorus:
Cool, Greece, Athens
Thessaloniki - 'salonians'!
 
Oh, it was just a dream.
No Greece exists - only in my dreams.
 

The Blue Danube (spanish version)

The Blue Danube...
 
The Duero is brown, the Nervion is grey lead
the Sil is greenish, the Genil is brownish
the imperial Tajo is potty ochre
and the Ebro shines while passes
with nuclear whiteness.
 
Toxic waters, septic waters
like melodious toilets
Putrid waters, stinky waters
that coat Spain with an intoxicating smell
There are of mangy grey
of a greasy litmus
of a disgusting khaki
because the filth is multicolor
 
Exhale the gentle brook
a subtle outpour
and the weak west wind while passing
makes you puke
Almost intact cow pats
decayed sardines
swollen chickens
is all the fauna of the waterway
 
And the oldest of the place
seem to remember
that in their childhood the river
there was a fish once
And the fearless fisherman
finds overwhelming
to get with precision
to tell a salmon of a condom
 
Pathogenic liquids, caustic detritus,
atomic fluids, plastic bags
everywhere.
 
Because the filth, because the filth
because the filth is multicolor
Because the filth, because the filth
because the filth is multicolor
Multicolor
 

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We are the youth

We are the youth, we are the future
Everybody grows, kids grow up, you learn from mistakes
And gain experience
 
Sometimes when I'm at the capital, I just sit at the window
And look at the people walking on the streets
I check at the people at the concert
So many different kind of people on the same road
One is a punk, has a mohawk
Boots and Juice can with him
Drinks homemade brew and flips off the cops
Grandmas go around them, as they walk on the streets
The other one just tunes motorcycles and plays hockey,
Curses and makes a cigarette at lunchbreak
Pumps europop, too loud
Or speeds his with cycle
Along the road at night
This one is a hip-hopper, always wearing
Headphones,
Wearing bunny-hoodie, super cool dude,
Big
Sneakers, pants always at half-mast
New paint
To the walls, in Nuorgami Or Hanko
 
We are the youth, we are the future
Everybody grows, kids grow up
You learn from mistakes
And gain experience
 
Which one of us has not been looking for their purpose
Everyone of us is a V.I.P.
Youth is judged, by the education,
But Pikku G knows
Better Indeed
 
Then parents think, what is wrong with them
Hasn't youth always had their own tricks
You wonder, why you have so big pants
I guess you were a total hippie when you were young
Adults don't really
want to remember
What you did and did not do when you were young
Everything is going to be fine, you managed too
And at least
As well we are going to do our jobs
I will finish my school and go to work when I grow up
And these pants have nothing to do with it
Hip-hop is and will always stay in my heart,
It will not stop me from doing anything in any way
That's everything about this subject, It must be enough now
but add a little respect thank you
That's everything about this subject, It must be enough now
but add a little respect thank you
 
We are the youth, we are the future
Everybody grows, kids grow up
You learn from mistakes and gain experience
 
Which one of us has not been looking for their purpose
Everyone of us is a V.I.P.
Youth is judged by the education,
But Pikku G knows better -Indeed!
 

A Breath of Sun

Life needs a hand
to walk with on the paths,
I’m waiting for spring
to smile at trees and sprouts.
But you, a cloud,
you steal from me a breath of sun.
 
I’m pretending, I sing and laugh,
but an infinite nostalgia
is hidden deep within me
crushing my mirth.
So light, like snow,
it hurts in my heart.
 
Come, you are welcome,
light, in the life.
I want to feel the presence
of this strength.
Come to me, magical dance
of sea and of sacredness,
come to me with pride
you, wind of happiness
into me, into me
following a breath of sun.
 
Mysteries of sentiments,
caresses and so much love,
worries of repentance,
anxiety about future
are inside me, inside me
following a breath of sun.
 
Come, you are welcome,
light, in the life.
I want to feel the presence
of this strength
inside me, inside me
following a breath of sun.
 

At Night

Is it still a pact? We just played each other
The hurt that takes place inside isn’t what we gave each other
The lights of our places, the ones that pretend to shine
I dive into it and I doze off just so I won’t wake up
 
People are moving all around me, didn’t see me fall asleep
To the sound of the beats that resonates with my whole being, I sway
The lovers finally meet as you can see me suffer
I dream and I fly away
 
At night, they let me live boredom
That reason imprisons
All of me lies in these times
So much hope, I go home
 
And at night, we get bored…
 
We spent the night under pressure
You tried your luck, they played your song
I talked to you all night long, I didn’t say much
I know you think that I think about it, but you think too much
 
Okay, I answered the call, and so what?
Trust me, it’s hard to keep up with me, I easily get lost
The problem of young adults: spend the night alone together
Being lost with no signature, I don’t how to say goodbye
 
I’m never far away, I’m never here
Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Ciao Bella
Crossing the world to try to replace a world
With another one that I can barely remember
 
I say 'two glasses full of moonshine'
Sunglasses for the moonshine
A classic, we fall in love
And baby, that’s all I need
 
At night, they let me live boredom
That reason imprisons
All of me lies in these times
So much hope, I go home
 
And at night, we get bored
My whole being sways
 

Empty Chair

There's an empty chair beside me,
the same one in which you rocked back and forth yesterday afternoon
 
I wonder if wandering around like this in my dreams
will help me find happiness
 
When you aren't here anymore
I'll leave this town behind
For I'll become lonely from that point on
 
And so, the long day ends
and the light filtering through my window remains without wavering
 
When you aren't here anymore
I'll leave this town behind
For I'll become lonely from that point on
 
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Megkaphatom a számod?

Nem igazán tudom, mit keresek
És nem zavar, hogy tökegyedül táncolok itt
De aztán látom, hogy ott állsz a falnál
És most már csak azt akarom, hogy egyedül legyünk
 
Megpróbálok teljesen őszinte lenni
Nem akarok megszegni semmilyen ígéretet
De mi van, ha ez a marhaság a szerelem?
 
Nem akarok vérfürdőt rendezni
Nem most kellene visszafogottnak lenni?
De mi van, ha ez a marhaság a szerelem?
 
Meg-, megkaphatom a számod ma este, ó-ó
Ha nem, talán ezt fogom bánni az éle-
életem végéig
 
Lá-, látom fogod a rezgéseimet, ó-ó
Sietnem kell és meg kell lépnem ezt a lépést
Nincs idő az időfecsérlésre
 
Meg-, megkaphatom a ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó
Meg-, megkaphatom a ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó
Ó
 
Úgy érzem, már láttalak itt ezelőtt
Valami miatt veled olyan, mintha otthon lennék
Ne tököljünk, gyere add meg, amire vágyom
És nekem csak annyi kell, hogy egyedül legyünk
 
Megpróbálok teljesen őszinte lenni
Nem akarok megszegni semmilyen ígéretet
De mi van, ha ez a marhaság a szerelem?
 
Nem akarok vérfürdőt rendezni
Nem most kellene visszafogottnak lenni?
De mi van, ha ez a marhaság a szerelem?
 
Meg-, megkaphatom a számod ma este, ó-ó
Ha nem, talán ezt fogom bánni az éle-
életem végéig
 
Lá-, látom fogod a rezgéseimet, ó-ó
Sietnem kell és meg kell lépnem ezt a lépést
Nincs idő az időfecsérlésre
 
Meg-, megkaphatom a ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó
Meg-, megkaphatom a ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó
Ó
 
Mit mondasz
amikor szemtől szemben állunk
Látni akarom
mit hoz a beszélgetés
Áh áh áh áh
Szökjünk meg innen
Nincs időnk elpocsékolni még egy napot
Mert veled akarok lenni
 
Meg-, megkaphatom a számod ma este, ó-ó
Ha nem, talán ezt fogom bánni az éle-
életem végéig
 
Lá-, látom fogod a rezgéseimet, ó-ó
Sietnem kell és meg kell lépnem ezt a lépést
Nincs idő az időfecsérlésre
 
Meg-, megkaphatom a számod ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó
Meg-, megkaphatom a számod ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó-ó
 

The cans dance

In France we know to have fun !
Just to know how counting !
One for uncaping !
Two in the throat !
And let's go for the whole day !
 
It's the cans dance !
The more we are drunken, the more we laugh !
On the highway !
Proceeing wrong way !
At 90 mph on the pavement !
Kro-kro-Kronenbourg, and a last one for the trip !
Long long long long live France !
 

I leave still loving you

There is an emptiness inside of you
There is a sadness in your eyes
The tears are falling down softly
There are nice memories in our past
There are daydreams in our present
There thoughts of an impossible love.
 
I leave still loving you
I force myself to forget
I am powerless this time
I am unable to listen to you, to forgive you
I leave still loving you
I force myself to forget
I am powerless this time
I am unable to listen to you, to forgive you
 
Don't even try to get me back
Everything is in vain,
Find someone else
There are warm memories in my past
There are empty daydreams in my present
There are disappeared and lost hopes
 
I leave still loving you
I force myself to forget
I am powerless this time
I am unable to listen to you, to forgive you
I leave still loving you
I force myself to forget
I am powerless this time
I am unable to listen to you, to forgive you
 
I am unable to forgive you
 
I leave still loving you
I force myself to forget
I am powerless this time
I am unable to listen to you, to forgive you
I leave still loving you
I force myself to forget
I am powerless this time
I am unable to listen to you, to forgive you
 

Like Two Trains In The Night

You come and you go
If I cry sometimes
You don't see me
You look elsewhere
 
Yet, we loved each other
But life is life
We two have nothing any more
No desires, no wants. . .
 
We're here like two trains in the night
We're here like two trains. . .that's life. . .
Who drive on the same tracks
Who run through the same tunnel
Two trains who enter the station
Every evening, every evening, every evening
 
And I'm caught in a trap
The hours go round in circles
The carousel horses
Have cardboard hearts
 
In the hollows of our bed
Boredom's moved in
And love forgets us
It's over, really over
 
We're here like two trains in the night
We're here like two trains. . .that's life. . .
Who drive on the same tracks
Who run through the same tunnel
Two trains who enter the station
Every evening, every evening, every evening
 
La la la. . .
 
i hope this translation was useful to you. use it wherever, i don't mind.
i write evocative translations rather than precise ones so this might not be 'word for word'.

When you're leaving me

I'm drifting like an empty raft
Through the flowing river
Through thousand shared memories
I'm in pieces
Now again nothing feels like anything
And I don't know if it even should
How much sorrow can I tolerate
When I don't even tolerate myself anymore
I stay in the silence
 
And of course
I would want you next to me
Every time I go to sleep at night
The darkness tucks me in
You come to my mind
With unhurried steps
Oh how I miss you
Now when you're leaving me
 
I'm drifting like an empty raft
Through the flowing river
Through thousand shared memories
I keep saying in my mind
I once cried this river for you
I almost drowned in it
When I drank bitter liquor
Because I only think of you
Even thought I'm fighting back
 
And of course
I would want you next to me
Every time I go to sleep at night
The darkness tucks me in
You come to my mind
With unhurried steps
Oh how I miss you
Now when you're leaving me
 
And of course
I would want you next to me
Every time I go to sleep at night
The darkness tucks me in
You come to my mind
With unhurried steps
Oh how I miss you
Oh how I miss you
Oh how I miss you
Now when you're leaving me
 
I miss you
I miss you
Oh how I miss you
Now when you're leaving me
 

Bárcsak tudnád

Ha hazajössz,
még ébren vagyok.
Rézsútoson szemben,
mindjárt a tető alatt.
Amikor elhaladsz,
akkor csendben maradok,
és te nem fordulsz meg.
 
Amikor szomorú vagy,
akkor rosszul vagyok.
És ha szerelmes vagy,
akkor ez még inkább igaz.
A te új boyfriend-jed
mennyire unom őt,
olyanféle gimnáziumi tanár.
 
Kórus:
Bárcsak tudnád,
hogy mit jelentesz nekem,
és hogy ez mennyire megemészt engem,
és hogy mennyire kinlódom.
Bárcsak tudnád,
hogy mennyire hiányollak,
hogy mennyire szeretnélek megcsókolni,
és hogy mennyire hiányzol.
De a nagy szavakat
szeretném elkerülni,
ahhoz túlságosan szerény vagyok.
Nekem cask a telepátia marad,
de ez nálad sohasem hat.
 
A tegnapi szerelmes dalok
már nem menők.
Ugyanúgy, mint a fotók a kempingről
a starnbergi tó mellett.
Akkor is, ha feltételezük,
hogy rendben van,
még örökké fájni fognak.
 
Kórus:
 
Bárcsak tudnád,
hogy mit jelentesz nekem,
és hogy ez mennyire megemészt engem,
és hogy mennyire kinlódom.
Bárcsak tudnád,
hogy mennyire hiányollak,
hogy mennyire szeretnélek megcsókolni,
és hogy mennire hiányzol.
De a nagy szavakat
szeretném elkerülni,
ahhoz túlságosan szerény vagyok.
Nekem cask a telepátia marad,
de ez nálad sohasem hat.
 
De a nagy szavakat
szeretném elkerülni,
ahhoz túlságosan szerény vagyok.
Nekem cask a telepátia marad,
de ez nálad sohasem hat.
 

My Number One

There are so many women in my heart but she is My Number One
(Will you tell everybody for me)
There are so many women in my heart but she is My Number One
 
Nine months warm, in her belly I needed nothing
And then she was the one who gave me the breast.
She reached out to me whenever I needed her.
When I lived with her, I was never hungry.
 
She worked hard, yes, I know she did.
She's worked her body to the bone, yes, I witnessed that.
Oh I love her, oh I love her so much
Let me dedicate this song for Mom
 
There are so many women in my heart but she is My Number One
(Will you tell everybody for me)
There are so many women in my heart but she is My Number One
 
We haven't always understood each other.
But nevermind,
I love her, and you won't prevent it.
You only have one mom, even if you have 50 friends.
Besides, a friend is nothing more than a friend,
Oh Mom let me pray for you
Young man, look at a vagabond like me,
I'm not really into family ambiances
But nothing puts me so well as to take my mother in my arms
 
There are so many women in my heart but she is My Number One
(Will you tell everybody for me)
There are so many women in my heart but she is My Number One
 

You're beautiful

You're beautiful,
I would not pay you to pay
Give me the money with the hat
I would not show you the dick
What the hell you got
When you get the fuck up ...
And what you have
When you get the fuck up ...
 
Refren (x5):
And what you have
When you get the fuck up ...
 
And you are black in the mouth of your mouth
As a magarus 'n peak' (her)
You have a little bit like a beet
Hey, you fuck me!
What the hell you got
When you get the fuck up ...
And what you have
When you get the fuck up ...
 
Refren (x5): ..
 
Give me my shovel money
Better fuck my dad
And give me a stack of hundreds
I would not fuck you in my mouth either
What the hell you got
When you get the fuck up ...
And what you have
When you get the fuck up ...
 
Refren (x10): ...
 

Recipe for Making the Colour Blue

If you wish to make the colour blue
take a piece of sky and put it in a pot
large enough to place on the flame of the horizon.
Stir into the blue a pinch of early morning red
until it dissolves. Pour everything
into a brass bowl that has been well washed
to eliminate all of the afternoon’s impurities.
Finally, sift in a few smidgens of gold from the sand
of midday until the colour adheres to the bottom of the bowl.
To prevent the colours from separating with time,
drop a charred peach pit into the liquid.
It will disintegrate, leaving no telltale
sign, not even – from the black ash – an ochre trace
on the golden surface. You may then raise the colour
to eye level and compare it with genuine blue.
The two colours will look so alike
that you cannot distinguish one from the other.
This was how I did it – I, Abraham ben Judah Ibn Haim,
illuminator from the town of Loulé. And I left the recipe
for whoever, one day, would imitate the sky.
 

How to make a Poem

If we’re going to talk about how to make a poem,
rhetoric has nothing to do with it. It’s simpler than that, and doesn’t
require subtleties or formulas. Pick
a flower, for example, but not one of those flowers that grow
in the middle of fields, nor the ones they sell in stores,
or in the markets. A flower of syllables rather, in which the
petals are vowels, and the stem is the consonant. Place it
in the vase of the stanza, and let it be. So that it doesn’t die,
it’s enough to put a little Spring in the water, which,
on a rainy day, is fetched from the imagination,
or is pushed in through the window when the cool air
of morning fills the blue room. This is when
the flower begins to seem like a poem, but it’s still not
the poem. For it to really sprout, the flower needs
to find more natural colors than those
which nature gave it. They might be the colors
of your complexion – its whiteness, when the sun falls on you,
or the depths of your eyes in which all the colors
of life mix with the sheen of life. After that,
I pour these colors over the corolla, and watch them descend
to the leaves, like sap which runs through
the invisible veins of the soul. I can then pick the flower,
and what I have in my hand is this poem
that you gave me.
 

To Ash, To Dust

Versions: #3
To Ash, to Dust
return we must
But not just yet
Miracles come last, you bet.
 
The tide of time
It falls too late
To ash, to dust
To ash?
It seems our fate.
 
To Ash, to Dust
return we must
But not just yet
Miracles? Not just yet
Miracles in the end we’ll get.
 
Is this a dream we’re in
Always Tossed ed and torn by the wind
Who could know for sure?
 
The clock upon your wall
Alarm begins to call
So put your hand in mine
And hold it for all time
 
It’s time for you to choose
With everything to lose
Do you love bliss or agony?
 
The darkness steals the sky
The light fades from your eyes
So look at me
And I won’t cry
Together in the dark
We’ll Die
 

I Dial Your Number

Last night, it was as though a fever took us over
You and I, the two of us, totally intimate.
I thought I would see you again
I totally and utterly believed and counted on it
And I couldn't sleep for a second1
I've thought of only you the whole time
You simply drove me mad
 
I dial your number
But you don't pick up
I've been trying for hours
You've said: C'mon, call me!
 
I dial your number
I won't hang up
C'mon, don't keep me waiting
I believe in you
and I, I won't give up
 
I think I've found my happiness
and [think] that you too feel the same way I do
I'm totally losing it, been trying for hours
I only get your mailbox, but I can't get you
 
Because I am totally ready for you
I want you now for all eternity
C'mon, save me from my loneliness!
 
I dial your number
But you don't pick up
I've been trying for hours
You've said: C'mon, call me!
 
I dial your number
I won't hang up
C'mon, don't keep me waiting
I believe in you
and I. I won't give up
 
How miserably slow is it
when one waits and time trickles away
But nevertheless, I believe that
there is a happy ending
 
I dial your number
But you don't pick up
I've been trying for hours
You've said: C'mon, call me!
 
I dial your number
I won't hang up
C'mon, don't keep me waiting
I believe in you
and I. I won't give up
 

• 1. Literally: I couldn't close an eye

Let me know if you have any questions about my translation. Good luck.
Vel

Light up a cigarette

When you end up believing life is a burden
And when unknown pains press you hard
When outside the birds are chirping during springtime
But in your soul it's always autumn
I then get and 'sip' from a cigarette with thirst
And in its smoke I kill the cruel sorrow
Because this large world is mine
And I get drunk from life like from alcohol
 
Light up a cigarrete
And in its smoke that lifts to the blue skies like in a dream
Plunge into forgetfulness
And leave the sorrow a path into the abyss
In the smoke of a cigarette
Find a shelter for the mysterious pains
Find a bright horizon and the sorrow longing
In the smoke of a cigarette that is lost in vain
 
When I miss your deep eyes in the night
I ask for a ray from their dreamy light,
Small stars to you when whispers urge me to
And thirsty for love's paradise
I then take and sip from a cigarette with thirst
And in its smoke I kill the cruel sorrow
Because this large world is mine
And I get drunk from life like from alcohol
 
Light up a cigarrete
And in its smoke that lifts to the blue skies like in a dream
Plunge into forgetfulness
And leave the sorrow a path into the abyss
In the smoke of a cigarette
Find a shelter for the mysterious pains
Find a bright horizon and the sorrow longing
In the smoke of a cigarette that is lost in vain
 

Just a Fault in Timing

Ah, I got it, just a fault in timing
wrong place, wrong woman
darling, I knew It
 
I couldn't be the way you wanted
don't be sad, you'd forget in no time
I had to go
 
even if I let myself my soul would escape still
the heart is a crazy thing, it loves and goes
 
my baggage is full of love and memories again,
I started my journey with infinite break ups
it's a loneliness so bad that the years got tired
pains, regrets and me, on a journey
 
I find Turkish songs dumb, I never listen to one. The ones I translate are all requests.

Stop using my translations you turkish people.

I will pick him up

People told in the past if she leaves you alone, leave her alone.
And I can't leave the one I want.
If I see her coming, I want to jump on her rapidly.
I didn't think that I would dream about her with her eyes the whole night.
And if I want something, I will achive it.
And if I put something in my mind, i swear I will take it.
And if I want something, I will achive it.
And if I put something in my mind, i swear I will take it.
My love.
 
I will pick him up, I will pick him, I will pick him up. (In Arabic poesy sometimes male pronouns are used, even if it is about a girl)
I have put him in my mind.
And I will find him, I will find him, I will find him.
My love.
I will pick him up, I will pick him, I will pick him up.
I have put him in my mind.
And I will find him, I will find him, I will find him.
My love.
 
They told me just forget her, and live a happy live.
And if a girl is difficult, i find her delicious.
She just want to make me crazy.
She is hard to her self.
One by one is on her, and she will fall with that custom.
And if I want something, I will achive it.
And if I put something in my mind, i swear I will take it.
And if I want something, I will achive it.
And if I put something in my mind, i swear I will take it.
My love.
 
I will pick him up, I will pick him, I will pick him up.
I have put him in my mind.
And I will find him, I will find him, I will find him.
My love.
I will pick him up, I will pick him, I will pick him up.
I have put him in my mind.
And I will find him, I will find him, I will find him.
My love.
 

Promise

I promised him/her.
I don't know how to achieve my promise.
I remember his/her little heart.
There is little hope for the future.
 
Although it is my promise to him/her.
And It's the same wish at bottom of my heart.
Promise and wish (look like a dream)
Who knows when we will dream come true?
 
I promised him/her.
I don't know how to achieve my promise.
I remember his/her little heart.
There is little hope for the future.
 
Although it is my promise to him/her.
And It's the same wish at bottom of my heart.
Promise and wish (look like a dream)
Who knows when we will dream come true?
 
Although it is my promise to him/her.
And It's the same wish at bottom of my heart.
Promise and wish (look like a dream)
Who knows when we will dream come true?
 

Midnight Lovers

Midnight sounds
and your footsteps echo
I know them better than anyone
That's how time goes by
for midnight lovers
 
Midnight sounds
the hours surrender themselves
into the arms of an autumn night
That's how life goes
for midnight lovers
 
At midnight I shiver
and I see how the ghosts
have dwindled my love
My love at midnight it's the moon
that reddens under my pen
 
Midnight sounds
and the wind hums
a tribute to our kingdom
That's how time goes by
for midnight lovers
 
That's how life goes
for midnight lovers
 
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It beats, it beats

Ooo, it beats, it beats
Ooo, it beats, it beats
 
For three days, you've been on my mind
I swear, it's at your beck and call
My mind tells me not to do it
My soul shoots at you
 
You seriously got under my skin
It might be bad or it might be good
Poetry under the sheets
Compatible like two rhymes
 
My parents say
Keep it simple
They don't know
That it's already too late
 
Ooo, it beats, it beats
Only for you it beats
Ooo, it beats, it beats
Only for you it beats
 
My heart, my heart
Beats, beats, beats, beats, beats
My heart, my heart
Beats, beats, beats, beats, beats
 
Only for you it beats
Only for you it beats
 
For three days, I've been sleepwalking
I wake up in the middle of the night
Even my dreams have caught fire
Since you made me feel
 
And I've left the past behind
For a future with you
I've turned my life upside down
And I don't even know you that well
 
My parents say
Keep it simple
They don't know
That it's already too late
 
Ooo, it beats, it beats
Only for you it beats
Ooo, it beats, it beats
Only for you it beats
 
My heart, my heart
Beats, beats, beats, beats, beats
My heart, my heart
Beats, beats, beats, beats, beats
 
Only for you it beats
 
I have 24 reasons to think about you
I look at the clock each hour, I have a fix on your love
When you disappear out of the blue, it suddenly rains
And I see rays of sun only in dewdrops
 
You are my only foothold
In a fleeting world in which neither of us knows
Where to take it, but we hold hands
It doesn't matter where we go, if we get there together
 
My heart, my heart
My heart, my heart
My heart, my heart
My heart, my heart
 
Ooo, it beats, it beats
Only for you it beats
Ooo, it beats, it beats
Only for you it beats
 
My heart, my heart
Beats, beats, beats, beats, beats
My heart, my heart
Beats, beats, beats, beats, beats
 
Only for you it beats
Only for you it beats
 
If I have made a mistake, please, tell me! Thank you!
Dacă am făcut o greșeală, te rog, spune-mi! Mulțumesc!