maNga - Şehr-i Hüzün (Full on Engl.)

Ok! I love this band very much, album is great, blah blah... I was pretty much lazy to sit and make translations for a long long time, but got free lately and made it...
Hope you'll enjoy it...

THE CITY OF SADNESS (ŞEHR-İ HÜZÜN)

That's Life
(Hayat Bu İşte)


Sometimes I say it'd be better if I could leave and go away
One Istanbul is inside me, I can't give up on it
Maybe one day you'll cross your bridges too
With burning it I can't break it down, and to rip it off I can't throw it away

That's life
When you spread your wings and try to fly!
Captured between four wals
While you're trying to find a reason to live
You find it for dying

Tell, what's the price if stone turns into gold?
Vessel is broken, my hopes are slowly flowing away
Tell, what's good about living in the cage of gold
While one half of me waits for you, other half patiently waits for death

***

Every Love Will Taste Death
(Her Aşk Ölümü Tadacak)


Some people get lost and even their voice is forgotten in this city
The only story known, is of those ones who stay and leave
Some people steal happy endings from life in this city
For someone, like us, stays half of the story
A city of sadness separated us and it’ll not be the end
Every love fed with tears will taste death
No prayers can save us, nor can time
Sometimes you need to forget without regret
Neither new love can comfort us, nor mark of the past
Sometimes you must accept the defeat

***

I'll Get Used to Close My Eyes
(Alışırım Gözlerimi Kapamaya)


I've opened my eyes as if the world is clean now
I've recklessly trusted to the taste of a fairytale about tomorrows
My childhood memories remained in the middle of lies
I did not find a hero outside the comics
I wish dust in my dreams wasn't so purple
I've asked all the questions,but didn't find the answers
Lies have been told, all lies
Couldn't reunite anything separated, tales couldn't become reality
No one talked on the streets where I fell in love
But city was never silent, it always cried... All cried...

If someone gives the last hope
And says one day everything will be fine
Perhaps I'll believe in this lie
And get used to close my eyes

If there's a road seen far away, it ends/fades up under the lights
Angels should take me away before I surrender to the darkness
Torture was seen on asphalts, fractures were filled with blood
How many children's dreams were lost among the ruins?
Why people forgot themselves, why they lost their own manners?
On which way, how many people died for nothing?
Lies have been told, all lies
Separated never reunited, tales I've heard never became reality
Nobody stayed innocent as far as I imagined; The war didn't stop, the death did not decrease…

***

The Unanswered Questions
(Cevapsız Sorular)


Suddenly the moon cut it's light
And you've changed so much
Like experiences had never happened
Like words were never spoken

And you came to me
You told '' There's someone else...''
I couldn't believe that it's over
I couldn't believe that you're gone

Neither you looked back, nor did I
We've always walked on different paths
Night was silent, moon got dark again
Only unanswered questions were left
Who'll be the first one to see her waking up?
Who will pick up the dream I’ve dropped?

You became like a dream
That disappears every morning
That waits for me in my nights
That poisons my days

***

Leave Me Alone
(Beni Benimle Bırak)


Take this world, take, make it yours
I don't need it at all, make it all yours
But I have my last wish from you, on this damn world
Take what you have and what you don’t, take it all

Leave me alone with myself
Leave me alone in this Hell
My soul is far away from you
I'm a stranger for you Heaven

Take this world, take, make it yours
Whatever happens, stay far away from me
If I have a sin I’ve made, it is my debt
You take what you have and what you don’t, take it all

***

All of Your Chosen Paths Lead Into One Direction
(Tek Yön Seçtiğin Tüm Yollar)


You actually feel like crying but tears won’t come out
Your screem stays inside you, slowly fades away
And your eyes, your eyes dived into paper, looking blankly
You feel like writing but you can’t write
You can’t get rid of the pen wrapped into apathy like into some desease

And you realize…

What’s the gain if your body stays free?
Pain is the one which stays inside your soul
You cannot turn back anymore
All of your chosen paths lead into one direction

You suddenly run away from all of your friends
And day comes, you keep away from all the mirrors
And your eyes, your eyes dived into distances, looking speechless
You cannot explain what's left inside you
You can’t get rid of the body wrapped into silence like into some desease

And you realize…

***

I’m Born at the Edge of the World
(Dünyanın Sonuna Doğmuşum)


What’s up! Look, I have no problems and no concerns
I’m happy, I don’t have a brain anymore
I set my eyes on the TV screen
And I don’t need anything else

The only "personal" thing left of me is just a “p.m.”
My everything gets to Public by clicking
I know it’s bad but I like it
Like every knight, mine’s in Arena too

The clicking subject is another lawsuit
It’s still seen on Courts
I search an honor (virginity) between the legs
Even if I see some chick, I throw out few words

Without faking, I don’t look for modesty
My front, back, right and left are my brand
Give me my cake, there’s no need for bread
I can’t exist without spending

Mirror mirror, come on, tell me is there anyone more unworried than me?
Mirror mirror, come on, tell me is there anyone more shameless than me?

I’m born at the edge of the world
Or I’ve died, I don’t know
After me they’ll say: We knew good
There’s no bigger lie than this
No ,there’s no bigger lie than this

The snake that doesn’t touch me can live forever as I’m concerned
Making gossips, I try to enjoy
Chewing gum in my mouth, bag in my hand
On a walkway I nose around for a bit

I’m totaly againts being commited to someone
But don’t you separate me from my TV series
My world changes by pressing a key from afar
The remote control in my hand is a commander to my life

My bank gave me a new card today
My scores are no longer my biggest dudes
Even if I don’t have a penny in my pocket
My cell phone is a pure A

Look girl, walk around like Hurmuz with seven husbands
But act like a family girl
And someone will appear who’ll take (marry) you
You always get the easiest money

I’m so bored of constant thinking, of feeling bad
No more strenght left from falling down and getting defeated
I regret for giving up on myself so early
This world has lost itself
What can we do?

***

Everything's a Breath
(Hepsi Bir Nefes)

Look what world gave to you; all pain, all suffer
Nevermind about the yesterday, that pain will certainly cease one day
Years, as days, begin to flow
You raise up the chalice too, for each poet's line
In that three-day world

Oh blind man, understand; This ground and this sky are empty
Leave it; keep this heart graceful
In this constantly crumbling world
Everything's a breath
The rest is blank, blank

Look what world gave to you; all pain, all suffer
But when curtains fall down neither pain shall remain, nor shall suffer
You need to learn to enjoy before it is too late
You raise up the chalice too, for each poet's line
In that three-day world

***

Home Noise
(Evdeki Ses)

Home noise, home noise, bam bam
Ferman with the microphone, sweat's flowing from my back
It's not easy to stay calm with this kinda rap
Jumping, hopping, screaming like a maniac
Listen good, facts will start now
In a long summary, it started in Istanbul
A melez* (mixed-race) chick came near to me
A melez, all blood-red shoes n' jacket
Get rid of these feet, all's stale
Some dope, jinks n' noise
Get it now, Cem had a go at it
Shall we go to your place? Or mine?
Don't make my neighbours see it, they'll tell my mom in a snap
Twenty five position in one love-night, fan fini fin fon...
After one, two, three, four rounds
Chick got finished as I was the bomb
What an excitement, same as (playing) the bass I swear
Come on, you join us too; home noise
Home noise, home noise, bam bam
Home noise, cut it out, stop the noise
We all came here to have some fun
One, two, sound-check, microphone's in my hand
Approach, hold back, listen to me at last
His name is Alper but they call him Master
His spoken words crush as a truck
Passes exactly as some box match
Knock-out in the first round and the winner is Alper
Karakan is like a bomb, don't ask why
You know it already, don't resist for no reason
You're enjoying it, don't deny it
Take it, it's a present from maNga
Look forward, don't bother yourself with the past
Shout, sing, kick, jump, hop
Perfectly as a sweat and as a cold buttermilk
Every day is a holiday for crazy people like us

***
I Came Naked
(Üryan Geldim)

One night I have suddenly noticed that I'm alone
I've noticed, came to myself, I understood facts I've seen
Suddenly one night I got up slowly, I woke up
I've hit myself, caught my roads, skipped plains and mountains
Without looking back, without questioning myself
I've passed nights, villages, towns, I ran and stopped before the sunrise
One night I have suddenly noticed that I'm alone
I've noticed, came to myself, I understood facts I've seen

I came naked, I'm going naked again
Is there a decree in a hand for not to die
Angel of death came, demanding souls
Is there a cure for death, do we have it?

While everyone worship themselves, I've stopped being bored from this body
Who's our enemy, who's our friend; I even didn't got afraid of death
I threw myself into stranger arms, stopped believing into empty prayers
I'm anable to separate evil from justice, enemy from friend, good from bad
One life-time banished my visions, but my all frustrations fitted into one night
Lies didn't change my mind an thoughts, I never left the road again
One night I have suddenly noticed that I'm alone
I've noticed, came to myself, I understood facts I've seen

***

The Silence has Ended
(Sessizlik Sona Erdi)

Let's see for whom are these words written, whom they provoked these three years
Our patince was tested more than enough, maNga came and who got scattered

Silence has ended getlemen, this junk talked a lot
Until authority cuts our heads off, learn to be human
People who claim they're our friends came, acting in front of us now
We've found out about their talkes behind our back... kind of!

They made dirty tricks in the garden, all Sinan's bones tingled
Where you're selling, sell it; you cannot change a donkey

Come on, sing with us now
Jump with us now
Let the world know
maNga came back

Whoever has mouth started to talk, television's like a festival in the country
But it didn't fit to some of them, is magazine the only way out?
And 'bout it he says it's satisfying new generation
Just copy-paste everything; even if it's good, is a human mind that poor?

As that world's bulded from unworthy fondless
Not everybody are living beings on this planet, look, this land is so dirty

***

Instrumentals:

* Gün Doğumu - Birth / Sunrise
* Şehr-i Hüzün - City of Sadness
* Gecenin Ritmi - Rhythm of Night
* Kaçamak Faslı - Escape Chapter
* Gün Batımı - Death / Sunset

Of course it's not from this album, but may be you'll be able to translate Raptiye Rap Rap??

Originally Posted by Kalomira

Of course it's not from this album, but may be you'll be able to translate Raptiye Rap Rap??

I was observing Raptiye Rap Rap for years already, tried to put words together from every single corner, but unfortunately for me it is totally a song which cannot be translated. Beside some few parts of it... It has too many meaningless phrases, and some silly Turkish words I could put along on many many ways... I'm running a site about maNga on Slavic languages, and it is the only song I could not translate... Sorry for not being helpful with this...

Originally Posted by emi34

I'm running a site about maNga on Slavic languages

Wooooow, really? What Slavic? Coz i've translated ALL maNga into Russian and have the same problem with this song, but nobody believes me it can't be translated. So i've started to feel myself a loser
And now we're preparing a design for their Russian-language page) So memnun oldum

Originally Posted by kolbaskina

Wooooow, really? What Slavic? Coz i've translated ALL maNga into Russian and have the same problem with this song, but nobody believes me it can't be translated. So i've started to feel myself a loser
And now we're preparing a design for their Russian-language page) So memnun oldum

Wow! No way! Bende memnun oldum Kolbaskina! I mean... Finally someone in the same maNga-skin! lol (I really thought I'm the only "crazy" one... You rally made my day for real!)
I am running for ex-Yugoslavians, Serb-Cro... More kind of blog, but turned out I post it all,lol... Got lucky with it I guess... Will Russian be available soon? Would really like to see it!