Need help with Sezen Aksu - Kaybolan Yillar lyrics

[yoldash]

Hi Guys
I'm new to this forum.I love learning languages and having made friends with some turkish people i fell in love with the language. I hopefully think this forum can help me learn this language . I'd like to start with a beautiful song sung by Sezen. Could anybody help me translate it. I myself have tried doing it using a dictionary i wanna know to what extend i did it right.Thanks in advance.


Dönüşü yok beraberce karar verdik ayrılmaya
Alışmalı arkadaşça yolları ayırmaya
Şimdi artık gözyaşları gereksiz akmamalı
Alışmalı kendi yaramızı kendimiz sarmaya
Şimdi artık kelimeler yetersiz anlamı yok
Yitirmişiz anılarla beraber faydası yok
Gel bunları bırakalım artık bir tarafa
Gerçeği görmeliyiz dostum başka çaresi yok
Şimdi bana kaybolan yıllarımı verseler
Şimdi bana seninle bir ömür vaad etseler
Şimdi bana yeniden ister misin deseler
Tek bir söz bile söylemeye hakkım yok

[wisalias]

There's no return, we decided to break up together
We should get used to seperate our roads (break with each other)
Now, tears are unnecessary, they shouldn't run
We should get used to heal our own bound
Now, the words are inadequate, meaningless
We have lost them (the words) with the memories, it's useless (to try/to talk)
Let's omit them all from now on
We should notice the truth my friend, there is no more cure (solution)

Now, (even) if they give me back my lost years
Now, (even) if they promise me a life with you
Now, (even) if they ask me "do you want (him) again?"
I don't have right to say even a word...



A very very very beautiful regret song from Sezen Aksu... I love her like every Turkish person... A writer of ours (Yılmaz Erdoğan) has written a very right sentence about her:
"Yolu Sezen' in herhangi bir şarkısından geçmeyen bir sevdanın muhakkak bir bozukluk vardır akordunda."
If there is a love which has never passed from a Sezen Aksu song, it means that there is a failure in its tune )

[yoldash]

Thank you very much Wisalias. It really is a beautisul song. When i read your translation i got really excited because i had understood almost 50% of it. But this is perfect it absolutely touched me. I like her voice alot and i know that she is a serious singer and turkish people count on what she delivers through her work.

[wisalias]

for years, a lot of generation grew up with her songs... she owns general of the lyrics and they are all like love poems... really, whatever you feel, for sure you can find a sezen aksu song about it... it makes you think you are not alone, there are people feeling the same pains&happinesses with you...

she is my legend

[nANIt]

She has also got a very unique strong vocal. She is popular in Ukraine as well.

[yoldash]

BAŞIM BELADA
Bugün düşünemeyeceğin kadar başım belada
Köşe başları tutulmuş üstelik yağmur yağmada
İler-tutar yani yok
Fişlenmişim adım-eşkalim bilinmekte
Üstelik göğsümde yani tam şuramda
Kirli sakalıyla bir eşkiya gezinmekte

Başım belada
Adamın biri vurulmuş sokakta
Cebinde adresim bulunmuş
Başım belada
Tabancamı unutmuşum helada
Nerden baksan tutarsızlık
Nerden baksan ahmakça
Başım belada
Üzerime kan sıçramış doğarken
Uykularım yarıda kalmış
Başım belada
Senelerce kuralsız yaşamışım
Nere gitsem çaresi yok, yanmışım

Sevdim inanamayacağın kadar seni esmer kız
Kirpiklerimde çırpınan şu tuzlu gözyaşımda
İhanetin adı yok
Neylersin ki çember daralmakta
Şimdilik hoşçakal yaban çiçeğim
Yasal mermisiyle bir komser yaklaşmakta.

Başım belada
Adamın biri vurulmuş sokakta
Cebinde adresim bulunmuş
Başım belada
Tabancamı unutmuşum helada
Nerden baksan tutarsızlık
Nerden baksan ahmakça

[wisalias]

I'm in trouble today, as much as you can not imagine
all the corners are occupied, moreover it's raining
İler-tutar yani yok
i'm filed (by police), my name and appearance is known
Moreover in my chest, just here
There is a bandit with beard walking

I'm in trouble
A man is shot on the street
They found my address in his pocket
I'm in trouble
I forgot my gun in wc
inconsistency in any case
foolish in any case
I'm in trouble
Blood splattered on me when i was born
My sleeps are aborted
I'm in trouble
I lived without rules for years
There is no cure wherever i go, i'm burned

I loved you as much as you can not believe brunette girl
There is no name of cheating
In my tears flopping in my eyelashes
There's nothing you can do, the circle is narrowing
Bye for now my wild flower
A police chief is coming closer with his legal bullet

I'm in trouble
A man is shot on the street
They found my address in his pocket
I'm in trouble
I forgot my gun in wc
inconsistency in any case
foolish in any case

[yoldash]

Hi Wisalias
Thank you so much again for your kind response. what do you think of Ahmet Kaya. I think his songs are mostly about social and political matters, right? other than sezen i like listening to Kaya. Can you introduce some other turkish singers who have a similar style?

[yoldash]

As you know l love sezen please help me translate this . I know i put you into trouble and i really appretiate your help.By this i also improve my turkish.

Zaman sadece birazcık zaman
Geçici bu öfke bu hırs bu intikam
Acılarımız tarih kadar eski
Nefes alıp vermek misali olan
Zaman sadece birazcık zaman
Son bulduğu yerde sevgiler bir tek an
Böyle benzer izler etrafında
Alışkanlıklarımız bile sıradan
Gidiyorum butun aşklar yüreğimde
Gidiyorum kokun hala üzerimde
Sana korkular bıraktım birde yeni başlangıçlar
Bir kendim bir ben gidiyorum
Zaman sadece birazcık zaman
Kızgınlığım yalnızlıktan korktuğumdan
Bilirsin karanlıktan da ürkerim çocuklar gibi
Işıkları hep yakarım bu korkudan

[wisalias]

only time, a little time
this anger is temporary, and this ambition, this revenge
our pains are as old as history
they're as (normal as) breathing

only time, a little time
at the place where the loves end, just for a second
traces like these around
even our habits are ordinary

i'm leaving, with all the loves in my heart
i'm leaving, with your smell on me
i left you fears and also new beginnings
i'm leaving and myself

only time, a little time
my anger is cos i'm afraid of loneliness
you know that i'm also afraid of darkness like children
i always turn on the lights cos of this fear...

[wisalias]

Originally Posted by yoldash

Hi Wisalias
Thank you so much again for your kind response. what do you think of Ahmet Kaya. I think his songs are mostly about social and political matters, right? other than sezen i like listening to Kaya. Can you introduce some other turkish singers who have a similar style?

not a matter yoldash...
and about ahmet kaya... hmmm.. actually i don't like to discriminate singers with their ideologies as long as they don't try to dictate their ideas in their songs obviously or secretly... for sure ahmet kaya has lots of this kind of songs and again for sure i don't share these ideas with him... but for the songs which don't contain ideas, he really has great ones as "başım belada", "beni bul anne", "ağladıkça", "birazdan kudurur deniz", "giderim" and "yakamoz"...

moreover what kind of singers do you want me to suggest?? cos sezen and ahmet kaya are in so different categories...