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İbreler — Sakareller

Doğduğumdan beri sanki burası böyle burdayım ve ben buyum

Gözlerim hep ibrelerde, gözlerim hep
Ellerim hep düğmelerde, ellerim hep

İsterdim tabi, sizle görüşebilmek, fakat çok önemli bir iş bu

Gözlerim hep ibrelerde, gözlerim hep
Ellerim hep düğmelerde, ellerim hep

Olduğumdan beri, ben ki şuuru körpe yoksa pişmemiş miyim?

Gözlerim hep ibrelerde, gözlerim hep
Ellerim hep düğmelerde, ellerim hep

Öldüğümden beri sanki burda hiçbişey değişmemiş gibi

Gözlerim hep ibrelerde, gözlerim hep
Ellerim hep düğmelerde, ellerim hep

Bkz Beş Dakika Daha Şarkı Sözleri (ChatGPT), Beş Dakika Daha (Sakareller)

Since I was born it’s as if I’m here and this place’s like this and I’m this
My eyes are always on the indicators, my hands are always on the keys

Since I’ve become with a conscience immature I wonder if I’m not boiled
My eyes are always on the indicators, my hands are always on the keys

I would like to meet with you but this is a very important job
My eyes are always on the indicators, my hands are always on the keys

Since I was dead it’s as if nothing has changed in this place
My eyes are always on the indicators, my hands are always on the keys

Note: “Indicators” was thematically inspired by the “Calutron Girls” who worked in Manhattan Project where they (unknowingly) contributed to the making of the atomic bombs.

It was also used as a jingle on Hayat [Life] TV:

Bilinen Son İyi Yapılandırmayı Hep Bir Tık Daha İyiye

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İnceleme — Ağrı

Seni ilk gördüğümde
Kan yürüdü beynime
Hızlandı kalp atışım
Fazlasıyla safmışım

Seni incelemeliyim (4)

Yanıma geldiğinde
Elimi tuttuğunda
Beni ilk öptüğünde
Para yoktu cebimde

Seni incelemeliyim (4)

Ama zaman geçtikçe
Çok banaldın kendimce
Artık senden soğudum
Zaten birini buldum

Seni incelemeliyim (4)

Examination

When I first saw you
Blood marched to my brain
My heartbeat quickened
I was too much naive

I have to examine you

When you came beside me
When you held my hand
When you first kissed me
I’d no money in my pocket

I have to examine you

But as time passed by
I think you were too banal
Now I got away from you
Found someone else anyway

I have to examine you

October 23rd 1999, Evrensel Kültür Merkezi, İzmir

Ağrı (Ache), İzmir Fen Lisesi

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Traces — Sakareller

I found something in silence
It has no name, it is not called
It wanders every nook and canny
Seeming unaware of its existence

Traces are there, traces everywhere
I don’t know it itself is where
It stays, it’s tracing there

Don’t try, it won’t understand you
Say whatever comes to your mind

Traces are there, traces everywhere
I don’t know it itself is where
It stays, it’s tracing there

Traces are there, traces everywhere
I don’t know it itself is where
It stays, it’s tracing there

It stays, it’s waiting there

(Turkish)

English: Işık Barış Fidaner

Note: The English translation of the lyrics of a 2009 song that we had rehearsed with Sakareller but never performed for an audience. It was a bit too folksy. Uğur had been threading it with human noise but then he left.

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Little girl — Nazım Hikmet Ran

1956

I am the one knocking the doors
One by one knocking the doors
I am not seen to your eyes
Dead are not seen to your eyes

Since dying in Hiroshima
Has almost been ten years
I am a seven year old girl
Dead children do not grow

My hair caught fire at first
My eyes got burned away
Soon I was a handful of ash
My ash dispersed in the air

I have for myself from you
I have nothing that I want
Can not she even eat candy
This child burnt like paper

I am knocking on your door
Aunt, uncle, give a signature
Let the children not be killed
Let them be able to eat candy

Okumaya devam et →

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Will you play with me — Bülent Ortaçgil

If I were water, if I were fire
If I were the sun in the sky
If I wouldn’t talk, be a rock
Would you still play with me

If I were in silence, be a flaw
If I were the curse in one’s mouth
If I were born as a captive
Would you still play with me

If I wouldn’t be counted, be how many
If I were the power in the soil
If I were a guilt like a dummy
Would you still play with me

Will you play with me
Will you play with me

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Little Things — Bülent Ortaçgil

It’s all little things that wear us out
Little things that shy us away
It’s all little things, little things that pit us against
Little things that reconcile us
Little things, all are littlest things
That orient, that please, that preoccupy us
It’s all short moments, blisses
It’s a hallucination to imagine it to be long
It’s all short moments that we decide
And then that we ruminate as to why for days
Short moments, all are shortest moments
That orient, that please, that preoccupy us
All great dreams, all great dreams that we pursue
And then that we get lost as to where we are
All great dreams that I cannot hold in my hand
That I have never seen, never went through
Great dreams, all are littlest things
That orient, that please, that preoccupy us
It’s all little things that make us fight
Little things that make us agree
It’s all little things that I love you
Little things that I hurt you
Little things, all are smallest things
That orient, that please, that preoccupy us

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