Hemşerim Memleket Nire [English translation]

Ever since I can remember I’ve spent my whole life on the road

I’ve traveled this mortal world from end to end

Literate, illiterate, poor and rich all the same

Finally, I’ve come to know right from wrong

As if humanity is on sale, bread is in the lion’s mouth

No one offers a man some hot soup

He who has built four walls has shut the door and locked it

No one offers a man a soft bed

Just one question, where are you from, mate

This world is my homeland

No mate, I mean where are you really from

This world is my homeland

Repent, repent, repent!

Every one holds forth about fraternity and equality

Yet they ask why you have darker skin than me

They take up arms and run for death for no reason

Yet no one asks what the orphan and widows eat and drink

Poor Gaye couldn’t find a way out so he talked and talked

No one says, Come on let’s all get along

Our earth is already broken and uninhabitable

No need to divide it more and more

Just one question

Where are you from, mate

This world is my homeland

No mate, I mean where are you really from

I told you already

This world is my homeland

Repent, repent, repent!