Demirbaş [English translation]

This is the system of exploitation! Exploitation!

This is the system of exploitation! This is exploitation! Exploitation! Exploitation!

Enough is enough!

Exchange, there is no exchange!

Turkey has no exchange!

No sir, I don't give, no I don't want either!

No!

I was a little boy

Without knowing why

We couldn't go out

We thought it was a revolution1 outside

Then we grow a little

We learned the alphabet

My back tooth was cut

I was even circumcised

Kennedy was killed

Migros wasn't opened yet

When Beatles weren't here

Economy was fucked up

Zeki Müren was obvious

Bülent Ersoy was a man 2

She started the Vietnam

War with herself

Süleyman is (always) the prime minister(always)

The prime minister is (always) Süleyman 3

Then people went to the moon

With God's help, they came back

People wrote on the water

It relieved us

Mao hasn't died yet

I was still going to middle school

When Yahya was starting to job

Banks were fully empty

Kırat 4with getting down from horse

It was tighten it's belt

When the people overlap on it

It was flopped down on us

There was rights, laws and order

Saying "Whoa!" was too hard

In the times when my middle school years were finishing

There was another revolution happened

Süleyman is (always) the prime minister(always)

The prime minister is (always) Süleyman

People were invented computer

Deniz Gezmiş was hanged5

Papa was changed again

Mandela was in jail

Environment wasn't polluted yet

Ibo6 wasn't get married yet

When Ajda7 was getting divorced

Exchange rate of dollar was raised again

Süleyman is (always) the prime minister(always)

The prime minister is (always) Süleyman

Kenan8 was the one with stick

Turgut9 was the fancy version of him

He wasn't understand at all but

Mesut10 was the one from Hopa

Naim 11 was lifting weight

Cruels12 were opressing

Let bygones be bygones13

He was blindsided

Kırat with getting down from horse

It was tighten it's belt

When the people overlap on it

It was flopped down on us

There was rights, laws and order

Saying "Whoa!" was too hard

In the times when I was going to serve in military14

There was another revolution happened

Süleyman is (always) the prime minister(always)

The prime minister is (always) Süleyman

Paşa 15 was drawing pictures

And selling them to Sabancı16

If we don't say, "So and so, I"17

He wouldn't give a fuck

Our darling18 couldn't stand

And he made bankrupted all of us

Most brave of the braves

Hold on to a tree of banana

Süleyman is (always) the prime minister(always)

The prime minister is (always) Süleyman

Ecevit19 was always a hope

Erdal20 made us sleep

He forgot our birthday

Cake on the cloakroom

Two keys

One is for car, one is for home

We were such believing

To our "father"21 will give us that

Kırat with getting down from horse

It was tighten it's belt

When the people overlap on it

It was flopped down on us

Nor a Padişah nor a Sultan22

One brother-in-law and one sister23

Also your "father" plus to them

Let it be my joy, my God!

Süleyman is (always) the prime minister(always)

The prime minister is (always) Süleyman

What were we talking about?

Give me my plug hat24

1. Coup d'etat2. Bülent Ersoy is a Turkish singer also a trans woman.3. Süleyman Demirel was Turkish politician who served as prime minister of Turkey 5 times and president of Turkey later4. Kırat means gray horse, but also refers to Adalet Partisi (Justice Party-party of Süleyman Demirel/named after Demokrat (Demirkırat) Party)5. Deniz Gezmiş was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, he was executed by hanging in 19726. İbrahim Tatlıses, a Turkish singer7. Ajda Pekkan, a Turkish singer8. Kenan Evren, Turkish general and later president, after 1980 coup d'etat9. Turgut Özal, the prime minister and also president of Turkey10. Mesut Yılmaz, Turkish prime minister11. Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter who born in Bulgaria. He was a seven-time World Weightlifting champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist and set fifty-one world records.12. Bulgaria13. A famous quote by Süleyman Demirel14. There is compulsory military service in Turkey15. Paşa refers to Ottoman and Turkish generals, in this song it refers to Kenan Evren16. A Turkish wealthy family17. "Nitekim" word, which means "so and so", was a word which Kenan Evren always used18. Actually I don't think "tonton" means "darling". It actually means "fat, but cute old man or woman and in this song it refers to Turgut Özal19. Bülent Ecevit, another Turkish prime minister20. Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and prime minister, son of the second president of Turkey, İsmet İnönü21. Süleyman Demirel22. Both of these words are refer to Ottoman rulers23. It refers to Tansu Çiller, a Turkish prime minister and his husband Özer Uçuran Çiller24. It refers to Süleyman Demirel's famous hat