lyrics: ahmed arif
music: fikret kızılok
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Vurulmuşum
i've been shot
Vurulmuşum, dağların kuytuluk bir boğazında
Vakitlerden bir sabah namazında
Vurulmuşum, yatarım kanlı, upuzun
i've been shot in a secluded strait of mountains
it was about the morning prayer time
i've been shot, i lie in blood, at full length
(refrain)
Kirvem hallarımı böyle yaz
Rivayet sanılır belki
Gül memeler değil bu
Domdom kurşunu
Paramparça ağzımdaki
my kirve, write my story as such (*)
or it might be taken as rumor
it's not breasts of rose
it's a domdom bullet (**)
all in pieces that's in my mouth (or, in my mouth that's all in pieces)
Vurulmuşum, dağların kuytuluk bir boğazında
Vurulmuşum, düşüm gecelerden de kara
Canımı alırlar ecelsiz, sığdıramam kitaplara
Vurulmuşum, düşüm gecelerden de kara
i've been shot in a secluded strait of mountains
i've been shot, my dream is even darker than the nights
they take my life before my appointed time, i can't squeeze it to fit into books
i've been shot, my dream is even darker than the nights
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(*) kirve: someone who sees all the expenses of the circumcision feast of a boy, holds the boy's hands and arms while he was being circumcised by sitting him on his laps and acts like a godfather to him throughout his life.
hallarımı: local way of saying hallerimi, meaning, my cases, my situations, that which happened to me, that which befell upon me, etc.
(**) see note here