Şeyhim Beni Işınla [English translation]

Teleport me, oh my sheikh, to the 70's

Before my 3 billion seconds run out

Let me bend the eternity for the rest of my life

I think that mysticism is good for the stress.

Oh my sheikh, let me have a sip from adam's wine

Let it quench the thirst of mortality

Let these rehearsal, experiment, drill end;

Formality of the death and the routine of torment.

Oh my sheikh, what is the meaning of these illusions and mirages?

Love triangle, circle of exercise, square of might

Armoured vehicles in the track of doom?

Now, I mean right now, what is my fate?

My sheikh my name is written in the blacklist, alas!

The oasis in the path of hegira1 is unseen

I can't drill it, you can't drill it, it can't be drilled oh my sheikh,

Another hole to the middle of zero.

Oh my sheikh, how fast 14 billion years have past

My age is now 40 and I am yet to join the forties2

I dropped the idea of eternal life completely

Oh my sheikh, I still couldn't get used to this universe.

1. is the migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622.2. Forties is the name of saints of alevism which is a sect of Islam originated among the Turks.